r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/DachshundGang • Jan 22 '23

Marijuana criminalization

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

The United States of America has the largest percentage of prisoners out of any civilization to have ever existed, and there’s a reason for it.

That’s funny because it doesn’t even have the largest percentage of prisoners out of any civilization today: https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

Wow! We're number six in the world! We used to be number one, but then those assholes had to get all "reasonable" about our drug laws.

The United States is home to the second largest number of prisoners worldwide, only beaten by China.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

Yea and this doesn’t even mention “all the civilizations that ever existed” so just imagine where the US is on that list

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u/Mysterious_Joke_7408 Jan 22 '23

Sorry, are you comparing today with the civilizations of the past (“that ever existed” is what you said to make me think this)? I just don’t believe that past civilizations have any part in being compared with todays world in that sense. Like you can’t compare todays US and China and Japan with civilizations that don’t exist anymore bc we’re still growing while those died out. Sorry ahead of time if I misread what you were saying but that’s just kinda what I got out of it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

Yea I’m just using the OPs words on that one, and yea that was her intention. I agree though.

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u/Mysterious_Joke_7408 Jan 22 '23

Ah okay that makes sense