• GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Being arrested and being a convict are not remotely the same. If he was a convict, they would let you know.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        No worries, I just wanted to emphasize it because nowadays it is really popular to cite prior arrests even if the person was never or rarely convicted, because people just assume arrests indicate convictions (because why talk about flimsy charges that were dropped?)

        I agree that there is the additional level that even if this dude had 40 convictions, he's still a human being, but we shouldn't let chuds get away with warping reality by pretending that a poor person with so many prior convictions would even be allowed to walk free in his 30s, it's part of a larger narrative that pretends our penal system is "soft" on "dangerous criminals".

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Wild that they even think the usa is soft on crime when we jail the most people in the anglosphere. It used to be on earth at one point, I think another country surpassed us.