I can’t wait for this guy to dismantle public transit and replace it with saddles on homeless people.

We don’t need anymore Cletus Safaris to know where the assholes are coming from. We know. They’re racist

or in boats, or planes... or aren’t even immigrants of any kind, for that matter.

no.

Great point, I’ve heard that too. The same old law-and-order rhetoric of the right really has no basis in reality these days, and I don’t think it ever did.

Maybe the cat is the broken link, and the bear is the lord....? Jeez, this is harder than it looks.

that sounds like an excellent read, thanks for the suggestion :)

there’s more than one - with shit like this, it’s typically northwestern europe, like norway, sweden, denmark, maybe switzerland.

Exactly. We lead the developed world - the entire world, i think - in percentage of population in prison. So do we have a lower crime rate to show for it? You know damn well we don’t. The reason so many people are in jail/prison have absolutely nothing to do with lowering crime, and everything to do with controlling…

I think this speaks to the larger lie that punishment is an effective deterrent. Sounds rational, sure, but it’s much better at making people feel and act like criminals/outcasts/broken. Everyone who knows anything about it knows that Department of Corrections is a complete misnomer.

Your link didn’t work :(

+1 for Anger Products

Another motherfucker goes down the drain
Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Just add it up to the hot rod death toll

Don’t even get me started on the dang mountain lions...

But to say, “well actually, guys, we have totes been besties with dictators before” is unhelpful, lacking any context, and seemingly meant to dilute the freakout about what is happening right now that should probably be even more severe.

A couple thoughts.

I guess I agree with that. Although it’s nothing new; there were plenty of liberals who were in favor of, well, all the Iraq wars, and in favor of giving ALL THE MONEY to Israel to shoot and drop bombs on Palestinians armed with nothing but rocks and kites. When it comes down to it, our brutal and callous foreign…

That... sounds like what I was saying: “work together to organize economic activity...” Whereas this is what I was finding exception to:

If even a pretty white lady who’s afraid of speeding tickets can face jail time over something this innocuous, that’s a pretty clear sign how far this administration and its lackeys will go to silence dissent and attack anyone who crosses it.