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Interesting to me that the Venn diagram of the group of people who want "prison reform" and an end to overincarceration and the group of people who want Holmes locked up with the key thrown away is basically a perfect circle. Is Holmes such an imminent danger to society that she needs locked up and cordoned off from our communities?
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Because the rich won’t have any incentive to change the system otherwise.
As if the poor couldn’t vote to change things if they wanted to.
She was convicted. Let her appeal her conviction from within a jail cell.
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Because the rich won’t have any incentive to change the system otherwise.
As if the poor couldn’t vote to change things if they wanted to.
It's extremely hard to democratically enact change even in countries with multiple political parties and proportional representation. The US doesn't even have that, it's an illusion of choice with 2 parties who are equally corrupt.
> There are not two systems of justice — one for the wealthy and one for the poor Would be nice if they would say this when a poor person, because they cannot afford a team of lawyers, gets a completely over the top punishment on shoddy evidence.
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As if the poor couldn’t vote to change things if they wanted to.
One of the worst things I've learnt about US, is that like the poor can't just go to vote, as it is not a public holiday but they need to ask for permission from their bosses? Like there are a lot of bad things I've learnt along the years about of US treats poors, and I think this one is on the podium
https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/payroll/does-your-state...
Interesting to me that the Venn diagram of the group of people who want "prison reform" and an end to overincarceration and the group of people who want Holmes locked up with the key thrown away is basically a perfect circle. Is Holmes such an imminent danger to society that she needs locked up and cordoned off from our communities?