Happy Freedom Day...I guess.

https://lemmy.world/post/1028248

Happy Freedom Day...I guess. - Lemmy.world

THEY’RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON THEY’RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON THEY’RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON FOR YOU AND ME
All research and successful drug policy SHOOOWS that treatment should be increased
Law enforcement decreased while abolishing. mandatory. minimum. sentences.
Utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe
Drug moneys are used to rig elections and train brutal corporate sponsored dictators around the world 😊
I left Reddit to escape bullshit like this
Me too. The “America bad” thing got old on Reddit. I Hope it doesn’t take off here too.
It will, because leftists love to cry and moan on the internet.
I don't think this is exclusively a reddit thing
You came to the wrong fucking place then.
And I left reddit to escape idiots like you. If I can handle being disappointed, so can you. Shut the fuck up.
Ahh there it is

Gee, I wonder why you expected people to react badly to you 🤔🤔🤔

Guess we'll never know! You have yourself a good one. And if you're American, don't forget to wave your flag today! 😘

They made it a business. How many places in the world have private incarceration facilities?
Many countries have private prisons.
Oh! Many countries do it, so it's fine! Noted.
Not saying it's fine, just that stupid questions deserve stupid answers.

Then go find go find a stupid question to give your stupid answers to.

For-profit prisons are a fucking scourge, and they're way too common.

I already have though... I hope you have a better day, friend.
I’ve heard some prisons have minimum prisoner requirements, which is incredibly fucked up
How does that play out? Do they try to extend sentences? Can they try to influence intake?

I remember there was a scandal in Pennsylvania where a judge was paid to funnel juveniles into a private detention center

npr.org/…/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-fo…

:( That’s not nice

How can America have 25% of the world's prison population of the entire country doesn't make up even 10% of the world's population?
Other countries don’t hold as many people in jail?
Damn u onto something
We have that percentage because we actually lock up our criminals, unlike Sweden or Germany.
Are you stupid?
You didn't have to ask
I don’t agree with this person, but I also feel like I’m missing something in particular if you’re asking whether this person is stupid for having that take. Am I? Is there something about those county’s prison systems that is important here?
In the USA there is no welfare system that prevents or cures mental disorders, weapons are freely sold and the streets are not safe. It is clear that the only solution there is to wait for someone to go crazy and be thrown in jail.
Is there a community that exclusively shits on the US on the threadiverse?
Mass incarceration is unimaginably large.

Each icon represents one incarcerated person.

Reminder that the US have never abolished slavery for prisoners and have one of the largest slave population in the world.

Yep… And every time there’s an employment issue for the agricultural industry, they whip.out the prisoners…

However to the prisoner’s credit: They do an absolutely terrible job at whatever it is they’re doing.

Why? What are they going gro do… Fire you? Jail you? You have no incentive at all to do the job well as a prisoner.

Bonus is by doing a horrific job it makes employers less likely to actually request prison workforces.

well the prison can not pay you and then you dont have the money for soap or tampon and get sick and literally in some cases die
Nice to see that even here - a shitposting forum - whenever anybody posts anything negative about America, yanks can’t handle it.
As we have all learned from Jack Nicholson, the truth is hard to handle.
I love how it's full of people whining about having left reddit to escape this shit like bruh this is the fediverse
Must be nice not getting dronestrikes by some distant nation that is full of psychos
Freedom freedom freedom OI! Time to eat this delicious flag
i watched that episode last night
And an huge colonial empire ( europe/japan/korea )
The US isn’t a colonial empire.
The US is one of the biggest colonial empires in history.
Then it should be easy to provide an example of a US colony.
Nato countries, easy.
You can’t seriously believe that, come on.
You can’t seriously believe that nato countries are really indipendent. The USA choose single ministers from certain countries and prime minister needs usa approval.
Are you implying the US chose the prime ministers of Hungary and Turkey?
Italy and Germany for sure… Even the chief of the european union… Hungary pretends to be against, but in reality, it follows what the usa want. I don’t undestand why usa don’t simply aknowledge the reality of their empire instead of pretending to have allies.
Do you have evidence for this claim?
It is not official ( of course ) , but very well know. Very former high official have confirmed that ( not officially of course ). The secrecy of real usa status is notorious. See what happened to Assange…
Do you have a source for that?