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    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      -say "yeah it's fucked up but what can we do about it?"

      It's really going to depend on how invested the person is in the system. When I was still a lib I would grab the wheel and steer the conversation straight into "end the war on drugs," but didn't really have a deeper answer than that. I guess that almost counts as "blaming republicans" but I was also annoyed that Obama did jack fuck all about it

    • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      -CHINA DOESN'T RELEASE THEIR ACTUAL INCARCERATION RATE

      despite China having something like 3x the population, they have 400 million less prisoners.

  • MacDeMarxo [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    They don't think about it at all, just like every other thing that might disrupt their comfortable life and world view.

  • a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    idk, just ignore/suppress the cognitive dissonance. i dropped the "4% of the population 25% of the prisoners" shit in a discord as part of a conversation about china and the whole thread got nuked

  • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    They think it's horrible and think we need to let the nonviolent drug offenders out, but will immediately go apeshit about LETTING VIOLENT CRIMINALS OUT the second anyone actually proposes even the most milquetoast criminal justice reforms.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Here's a fun one:

    Maybe the reason crime is down is because we have the highest incarceration rate.

  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago
    1. They don't think about it. It's easy to ignore people you rarely see.
    2. If you bring it up, they'll talk about half-assed tweaks around the margins that won't substantially reduce the prison population in our lifetimes.

    If libs saw a big problem and concluded it needed a big solution, they wouldn't be libs.