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Your comment isn't consistent with historical evidence, though. At the peak of WW2, the GULAG death rate was about 17-20%, during a famine and a war that killed about 10% of the country. Death rate for the war was 10%, so a 20% death rate in prison during the war doesn't seem that crazy to me, and the fact that it was much lower before and after kinda indicates that it wasn't the intention. Additionally, out of the millions that went thorugh the GULAG system, about 700k seem to be the consensus for political prisoners, which makes up only a fraction of the total. It's not great, but it's not death camps for the enemies of the state, it's a prison system in an underdeveloped country undergoing the greatest war of human history.

Britain is actively arresting thousands of anti-genocide protestors and France's most voted party is fascist, bad news for you

Do you also not care about the extreme violence being applied to immigrants or the hate campaigns towards black and trans people?

This isn't the US going downhill, it's the US incarnate. The country is founded on the genocide of Native Americans, Hitler openly expressed admiration and inspiration from the Manifest Destiny. In the early 1900s, the US was already applying so-called big stick ideology and staging coups in Central America. Hell, when was Jim Crow repealed? This isn't the US going downhill, it's the US doing what it's always done, but slightly towards the inside too.