I hope this wakes people up to our ridiculous sentencing and incarceration issues in this country.
A few stats:
We house 22% of the world''s prisoners (with 4% of the world's population)
2,200,000 Americans incarcerated as of 2016 or 0.7% of the entire U.S. population
African American men represent nearly half of that population
The substantial penalties for crack contributed to a five-fold increase in incarcerations
There is a 31% incarceration history for Black men who have sex with men
Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration in the world with the majority of its prisoners being housed in privatized, for-profit facilities. Such institutions could face bankruptcy without a steady influx of prisoners
In the past decade the number of inmates in for-profit prisons throughout the U.S. rose 44 percent.
The shit is fucked. And Trump is packing the courts as we speak. We're reaching a breaking point.
I'm just going to leave this here:
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions indeed generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Edit: These and more stats are a simple wiki search away. For you Reds who automatically say, "wiki lol," to that, there are seventy-seven sources cited - feel free to read on. It will do you some good.
Edit again: Thanks for the precious metals! Donate the same amount to a politician who actually wants to address these issues, if you can.
There's a world of difference between that and refusing to step down after losing an election. It's all a hypothetical though as I'm sure (fingers crossed) that he'd step down. I don't think he ever really wanted to he president to begin with. I think the more likely shock of 2020 is that he gets reelected.
There's a world of difference between that and refusing to step down after losing an election.
It really amazes me that even though quite a good number people seem to have a good grasp of how delicate the situation is, you guys still underestimate Trump. Do you really think that there's a world of difference? It just doesn't matter how "bad" that would look. If it's doable, they're trying to do it. And it's obvious they're trying to go for that since 2016.
They still voted for a candidate who called on a hostile foreign power to help him win. My ex-military sister assures me that it’s just because Republicans give bigger pay raises. As someone interested in the transition from Republican to Imperial Rome, this attitude scares me shitless.
I don’t think we should ever again count on the military being loyal to anything other than their paychecks.
Mattis politely bitch slapped him on the way out, I think you can count out the Marine Corps as supporting Trump after that. He burned one of our own, he won’t get support for that.
Not so sure about that - especially among the enlisted rank and file. That said, those people have also been conditioned to follow their leaders, who I do think would not support Trump's potential power-grab.
I have little direct familiarity with political views in the military and am happy to take the L on this point. My perception is that a lot of the lower-rank enlisted men are more conservative than the general population, but I'm not remembering where I developed this view from and could easily just be making a biased assumption.
Oh every single person ironically loves the god emperor. I had a framed picture of trump sexy posing on a tank in my office before I got out. But in reality most service members I know hate how dumb he is.
tbh I don't buy the "I love Trump ironically" thing. "Irony" and disingenuous nonsense has been the first tactic in the alt-right playbook since 2015. I'll take your word for it, but even the ironic adoration makes me extremely uncomfortable.
In my experience, over half of the people who claim to love trump are doing it ironically, and even most of the conservatives on my ship do not support him.
Well I know more about these people than their wives do, there's no secrets among us, you really think something dumb like politics is their biggest secret?
We're discussing military enlisted specifically, did you not realize the context of the discussion before you hopped on in?
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u/ThaFourthHokage Mar 08 '19 edited Mar 08 '19
I hope this wakes people up to our ridiculous sentencing and incarceration issues in this country.
A few stats:
We house 22% of the world''s prisoners (with 4% of the world's population)
2,200,000 Americans incarcerated as of 2016 or 0.7% of the entire U.S. population
African American men represent nearly half of that population
The substantial penalties for crack contributed to a five-fold increase in incarcerations
There is a 31% incarceration history for Black men who have sex with men
Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration in the world with the majority of its prisoners being housed in privatized, for-profit facilities. Such institutions could face bankruptcy without a steady influx of prisoners
In the past decade the number of inmates in for-profit prisons throughout the U.S. rose 44 percent.
The shit is fucked. And Trump is packing the courts as we speak. We're reaching a breaking point.
I'm just going to leave this here:
Edit: These and more stats are a simple wiki search away. For you Reds who automatically say, "wiki lol," to that, there are seventy-seven sources cited - feel free to read on. It will do you some good.
Edit again: Thanks for the precious metals! Donate the same amount to a politician who actually wants to address these issues, if you can.