USA here. Eeeyup.
We’re more incarcerative (word?) than basically anywhere else in the world; certainly more than any western country by a longs….eh, bad timing for that phrase.
It doesn’t help us. In fact, it might be a factor making us the most violent place in the western world. (We’d have to be put side by side with South Africa to check numbers.)
Our prisons get people tortured and killed; the ones who survive come out as better criminals, often with zero “life” left; spouse is probably gone with the kids, house foreclosed, job long gone and prospects of getting one with a record severely damaged.
What is there left to do? Shit that’s illegal. Gotta survive somehow, it’s your only way left to stick it to a system that has strongly indicated it would prefer if you were dead.
This.
I’ve been saying over and over (down in that R-named shithole that banned me for a short comment approving of revolution,) some folks are gonna have to take a big L to kick it off here.
The first 50 or so Luigi’s will be dealt with harshly as examples; the public will buy the reasons fed to them and think of them as fucking monsters.
50 or so and people will start to take notice and see what needs to be accomplished here. Why do so many people hate CEOs? Hell, today, why would some “crazy person” want to hurt Charlie Kirk???
One more of that 50 got his metaphorical wings today.
Hmmm.
They’ll think, and think, and think. Eventually, watching this play out while food becomes out of their price range, their job replaces them with a TV screen of a Filipino lady, a small house hits an average of $500k in price, etc.
Something’s wrong.
Nepal got it, man. Enough people put their thinkin’ caps on and figured it out.
I went to Kent State from 2014-2017. Even met Dean Kahler at a memorial event; he was hit in the spine by a National Guard bullet and paralyzed, confined to a wheelchair for life.
America isn’t a bright place, intellectually. It’s gonna take cold, raw, painful time for enough people to figure out what is going on and the one way it can be solved.
That block of time, which we’re in right now, is gonna Fucking. Suck.