• No1@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    Guys, guys!

    You’re ignoring the real questions!

    Are the companies running the prisons profitable and how much should you invest???

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    16 days ago

    It is always depressing to read people all of a sudden worried about other countries like China or Russia, don’t even giving a minuscule fuck about what is happening in their own country.

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    15 days ago

    Let’s see.

    1. South

    2. South

    3. South-adjacent

    4. South

    5. South

    6. South

    7. South

    8. Not south, but borders Mexico

    9. Northern

    10. Kinda south, kinda not, boarders Mexico

    11. South

    12. South Dakota, doesn’t count

    13. South

    14. Northern boarder

    15. North

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      15 days ago

      The heat expands the brain and the raise of pressure against the skull induce criminal behavior. It’s scientifically proven.

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    16 days ago

    Its been a few years since I checked, but as of 2015 at least the US, which is 5% of the world’s population, give or take a few, had over 25% of the world’s prison population. Total. Fucking. Insanity

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        A lot of communists like W.E.B. Dubois dedicated a good amount of research to the 2nd phase of reconstruction after the US civil war, often called the counter-revolutionary phase, where a lot of the gains of the civil war were lost.

        Their belief is that slavery was allowed to be reinstituted in a limited form in the south (mainly in prisons), black leaders removed from their posts and replaced by confederates, white terrorist orgs like the KKK reformed and turned a blind eye to, and the harsh enforcement of miscegenation laws (many of which only got repealed in the 1960s).

        That campaign of terror is what drove black mass migration out of the south and into the US west coast, and north throughout the 20th century.

        Obviously the US hasn’t really changed that policy, and still lets the south have slavery in limited forms.

        The books black reconstruction, and michelle alexander’s the new jim crow are great ones abt this.

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      Was it worth it, drug warriors? All the unnecessary deaths, at the hands of police and unregulated drugs of a unknown potency? Was it worth sacrificing all our civil liberties on the vain funeral pyre that is the United States of America?

      When humanity is victorious in the drug war and all drugs are legalized, will drug users criminalize sobriety?

      Will people high as fuck demand everyone to piss in a plastic cup to make sure they are high?

      Will drug users ruin sober people’s lives with felonies and time in prison with hardened criminals?

      Will drug users dissolve civil liberties and prop up a bipartisan police state that gives cops a license to kill?

      NO!

      Who would want to do that to someone? To a fellow human for doing what they want with their own bodies? Prohibitionists… that’s who. And we are not them

      Feel fortunate we want justice, not retribution.

      Nothing lasts forever drug warriors. Tick tock. We will be free one day, and you will wail and moan and your cries will fall on deaf ears.

      Now playing The War on Drugs - Red Eyes

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      Which is a plague that affects every country in the world - so isn’t a reason for America being so keen to jail people.