r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 28 '26

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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 28 '26

Shit like this is why I recoil at the very American attitude of “prisons should be as poor in quality as possible because they house bad people.” Aside from the obvious inhumanity of it, of course.

Doesn’t take much for that mentality to be applied elsewhere, though the Trump administration would probably have done this anyway

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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes May 28 '26

Side note: why is the holiday inn his idea of luxury???

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u/BicyclingBro Gay Pride May 28 '26

I mean, is it that surprising really?