When DSA types talk about prison abolition it's this weird superposition of incredible naivete and a tacit admission that their revolution is going to go straight to death squads without bothering with gulags this time around
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Replying to @hikikomorphism
Which is sad because I really wish someone actually had a good idea for a replacement for prisons :(
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Replying to @drethelin @hikikomorphism
how about whipping you won't fucking forget forty proper lashes any time soon, and the idea that that is less humane than taking away literal years of someone's life is the product of a value system that is diseased beyond all reason
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Replying to @chaosprime @hikikomorphism
Hard to say. Plenty of criminals take scars as points of pride just like they do jail time but at least jail keeps them in jail
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which brings it back to just being a replacement for exile when we've run out of frontiers really getting caught doing a crime should just be a way of electing Exit
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