Maybe we incarcerate more people because we have more violence. CA released prisoners on Props 47, and 57, and then for COVID, and look at us now.
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @MonsieurBouvard and
If you're honest about it, the best you can say is that locking up millions of people has not resulted in America becoming less violent nor crime-free. Yes, look at us now, we're finally turning a page on a pattern that will be rued in history like slavery & segregation are now.
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Replying to @SustainableFred @MonsieurBouvard and
No society is crime-free. Human nature is not infinitely perfectable. And lol, we’ve turned that page of history a long time ago. You are not as important as you think you are.
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @MonsieurBouvard and
My apology for mis-speaking, I meant “MORE crime-free” (I should’ve said “lower crime rates”), not 100% crime-free.
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Replying to @SustainableFred @MonsieurBouvard and
You might want to take a look at single motherhood, and how it’s connected to crime.
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @MonsieurBouvard and
True, good point. Also, you might want to take a look at mass incarceration, and how it’s connected to single motherhood and kids being raised in foster homes, group homes, etc.
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Replying to @SustainableFred @MonsieurBouvard and
Mass incarceration is a consequence of welfare state and single motherhood. It self-perpetuates.
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @MonsieurBouvard and
I’m glad you see the cyclical nature of this. If you want to end single motherhood, you should oppose mass incarceration.
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Replying to @SustainableFred @MonsieurBouvard and
Not cyclical at all. Welfare state promotes single motherhood, which creates criminality. “Mass incarceration” is an emotionally charge buzz phrase that doesn’t mean anything. We don’t have mass incarceration, we have lots of criminality. Each individual on trial is tried as an
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Replying to @KatyaSedgwick @SustainableFred and
Individual, and given all constitutional protections (and plenty of second chances).
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How many times was George Floyd actually in & out of prison - when he never should have seen the light of day? Taking the side of the criminal is the sign of a sick society in the paroxysms of decline. Nietzsche has said so much about this that to refer to him is sufficient.
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