The American south very much is a third world country. Life expectancy, health metrics, education, quality of life, it’s all right down in the toilet. And no one seems to want to do anything about it. Keep your voter base uneducated and you an keep the grift going! U-S-A! G-O-P! U-S-A!
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This is the correct take. In Mexico if you get pulled over for nothing, you just pay the $20 fine right there in cash and off you go. In AL, they take your car with all your stuff in it and tell you to sue to get it back.
Having grown up in a 3rd world country, that’s insulting to 3rd world countries (I’m mostly kidding)! What I’ve mostly experienced are cops trying to make a few extra bucks by being overzealous with their policing and then hoping for a small bribe to make it go away. That’s peanuts compared this - a full on profit…
Oh so thats whose buying those fuckin horrific trash tier best buy laptops that end up in a landfill in a year.
“Oh, my God, that’s disgusting! Tifa Lockhart hentai porn? Where? Where did he post those?”
That is a different issue. That some judges let people off too lightly does not make mandatory minimums right. It means that there should be greater oversight on judges, and more means of rectification if they do consistently let certain types of criminal off too lightly. There are mechanisms for prosecutors to appeal…
They exist for no other reason than to be touted in political ads by law-n-order types.
Yes, all. There should be no place for that kind of inflexibility in a justice system.
I don’t think #4 is really relevant when even those families apparently agree that 110 years isn’t warranted.
Mandatory minimum laws are obscene in all instances.
Destroying the earth is probably far easier, and like 7 billion humans are already helping.
old enough to smoke/drink in most countries
“It’s not the American taxpayers responsibility to bail you out from a bad financial choice.”
How to say “I don’t understand the fundamentals of the US monetary system, but said with dumber words.”
The frankly cruel ‘you deserve to suffer’ comments here and elsewhere are just proof at how fucked this country is tbh.
It’s not the American taxpayers responsibility to bail you out from a bad financial choice.
“Old enough to vote”
The unfortunate reality is we Democrats will lose the working class vote if student debt is cancelled.
I’ve paid off my loans (undergrad and law school) and absolutely want forgiveness to happen. My life’s not gonna get worse just cause someone else’s life gets better.
But who’s gonna think of the for-profit student loan lenders and their shareholders?!?!?!?!?!?!?!