• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      My man has some of the best health care our government can buy, plus a legion of sponsors ready to prop him up indefinitely.

      Little reason to believe he’s going anywhere, at least not before the next GOP president can replace him with an equally pilled far right judge.

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    Wouldn’t that be a convenient way to keep the slave prison industry running?

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      Especially when so many states are decriminalizing weed, this could definitely make a lot of state prosecutors very very happy.

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      If there is one area of American society outside immigration that needs immediate bumper to bumper reform it’s the prison system… It’s worse than the third world.

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        in order to fix the corrections system you need to fix the entire legal system. from cops and jails to DAs Judges and laws

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    “In an appropriate case, the Court should certainly correct this error,” Thomas wrote.

    Thomas is making called shots now for rich people with private prisons. What a muppet.

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      There’s 158 private prisons in the US. That’s roughly 2.5% of detention facilities in the US. People talk like the majority of prisons are privately owned but it’s actually quite rare.

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        We’ve already had judges doing cash for prisoners, cash for kids, corruption. They don’t need all the budget to attract judges, a few prisons gets the job done.

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        The amount of privately owned facilities isn’t a good metric. The amount housed in private prisons is that being about 8% combine the two and it gets uncomfortable.

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    The dude didn’t say a word for decades. Now he has a loud opinion about literally everything. I wonder what he’s thinking about my new tube socks or the lunch I had two days ago. I’m sure he’ll let me know.

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    The US has tranferred $2 triliion to the wealthy see 1976 losing the war on drugs. Making drug addiction illegal is just a way to justify transferring another $2 trillion to the wealthy. It’s not about ending drug addiction. It’s about profit with a side dish of punishing those that they think they are better than.

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    It’s no more absurd than somehow sleeping outside is illegal. It boggles the fucking mind.

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      Not being a wealthy white hard right Christian will be illegal. The point is to make it impossible for people to live legally, so you can just push them around any way you like.