The US is becoming a hollow state in which oligarchic factions wield the machinery of government to funnel money into their coffers via bloated military projects, mass incarceration in private prisons, regulatory capture, etc. Politics is pure kayfabe, team oligarch vs team state
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Replying to @eigenrobot @hikikomorphism
I don't think it was always like this, or at least not to this degree. not that everything was great in the past but that the particular form of hollowing out of the state seems to have begun in the 80s and accelerated continuously for the last ~35 years.
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incarcerated population corroborates this pretty elegantly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States …pic.twitter.com/h3S59wShg7
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I was curious how that line would look in comparison to pop over time. Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/population …pic.twitter.com/NyV4QFLMUz
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this one is normalized to number incarcerated per 100,000 the rate grew at a rapid pacepic.twitter.com/8JPlCg4bvs
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Replying to @danlistensto @imnotgivingmyn5 and
this is the normalized incarceration rate for State prisons (above chart is Federal). it's a much larger population actually, but the growth rate slowed down a lot beginning around 2000pic.twitter.com/fDHfiOIszz
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be interesting to see this age-adjusted old folks just dont go to prison so often and the countrys getting kinda grey
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greyness is not uniformly distributed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Ages …pic.twitter.com/nZP0U0oxZz
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