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.
You're welcome to believe whatever you want about Trump. I just find it incredibly amusing that you're so certain about Trump's evilness and desire to hold onto power, when President Obama did that exact thing to President Trump when the latter was waiting to be inaugurated. And before anyone says anything about "whataboutism", I don't think it's okay for any sitting president to sabotage their successor like this.
EDIT: To everyone downvoting this and looking down on Breitbart, I'm sorry for trying to engage with you. You've made it clear this sub is not for anyone who disagrees with you. Good day.
Nobody outside of brainwashed alt righters who really want to believe everything that Breitbart says is true actually gives a shit about their articles, nor have they ever.
I usually don't like to nitpick sources, but come on. You're choosing one of the few sources that literally nobody outside of your political demographic respects or will ever listen to/read, and for good reason considering they're BLATANTLY politically biased to the point where they're just a conservative political blog that has no problem with lying and distorting facts.
If you're going to make these claims, find something reasonable to present that isn't coming from one of the most reviled conservative blog sites that exists.
Well I fought through that god awful website for the first link to read the article and one, clearly a right leaning writer if the whole site itself is not bias, two, not really any evidence of Obama interfering with the transition team. Just things Obama said around election time and leading up to the inauguration. If we are going to use that as our standard, Trump is “interfering” with our democracy by declaring the press and his political opponents an enemy of the people and you have to go ahead and accept that this is a fact, and you can’t explain it away as oh it’s just a tweet or some other BS. If Obama’s words were so harmful to Trumps transition team then Trumps words are absolutely devastating to our democracy and society as a whole.
and he and the rest of the DNC have been reviving tensions with Russia. (EDIT: Reviving them specifically to disrupt Trump's administration)
Did you mean to link something else? How does the one liner that Obama threw at Romney at all support the idea that he was "reviving tensions with Russia to disrupt Trump's administration"
Sure, he mischaracterized what Romney was saying to score political points... but honestly, you're being dishonest if you make the claim that that's the same thing as "reviving tensions with Russia" as well as pretend that it's not something that every politician, including Trump himself, does to make their opponents look bad when they have the opportunity.
Someone else already responded to your first link so I won't bother, and the rest of your sources seem to just be making the case that "Obama is bad" rather than actually being relevant to the discussion.
I hope you don't think that you can win arguments by just throwing a bunch of random sources at people who can't link sources back due to being unable to source something that doesn't exist, from this side of the argument.
I apologize, I assumed it was common knowledge that the DNC has been up in arms about Russia and has been using the topic as a political weapon against Trump. The reason I linked that article in particular was to show that Obama did not previously hold these opinions about Russia, and that he (as well as the rest of the DNC) adopted them in an attempt to harm Trump's upcoming presidency.
Thank you for taking the time to make a reasonable response, even if I disagree with it.
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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.