Switch to Scientific Socialism. Problem solved.
Also qui letting any 2bit idiot have a say on what the country’s policies are unless they’re qualified to be in that conversation.
Also quit letting any 2bit idiot have a say on what the country’s policies are unless they’re qualified to be in that conversation.
That is such a tempting setup…
On the other hand, any country that allows its prisoners to vote has a constituency that wants to decriminalize what ever it was that they did.
Not to mention, that arresting is not imprisonment. Merely being arrested doesn’t put you in prison, you need to be convicted first. When cops can easily follow orders from the top to arrest people with the wrong skin colour, getting people arrested is easy. But, with a decent system of courts, it’s a lot harder to convict them.
Look, I get that the context is about political prisoners. But, really, if the system is so corrupted that people are being convicted of something merely based on their politics, it’s laughable to think that it has free and fair elections and that voting by prisoners is going to change things.
On the other hand, any country that allows its prisoners to vote has a constituency that wants to decriminalize what ever it was that they did.
What’s wrong with that?
Millions have been arrested and convicted over absurd “crimes” without a single victim to be found. Of course they want it to be decriminalized, as does their family, friends, and many fellow citizens. As it should be.
What’s wrong with that?
It depends on what they did. Maybe they want to make insulting the king legal, that might be a good thing. Maybe they want to make sex with children legal…
MAGAs looking to make trump derangement syndrome a mental illness.
mark someone as mentally unstable > hall them of to an asylum > drug or kill them under wraps
america has no idea what its dealing with.
I agree with the sentiment, but were prisoners able to vote, prisons would get gerrymandered to hell and back. That said, they should still be able to.
In Sweden, prisoners keep their home address and vote in their home district.
To be fair, Sweden’s prison system is more progressive than the non-imprisoned experience in some countries.
I think you’re touching the heart of the problem: the US election system.
Any government that can financially profit from its prisoners also has an incentive to imprison more of its population.
Or wars.
Well, the government isn’t profiting from it. Its the people running the government who are invested in private prison companies are personally profiting from it. Along with their golf buddies running said companies.
Privately run prisons as a for profit business is a crime against humanity.
The government would have got a payday when they sold off the prisons in the first place.
If anyone needs representation, it’s prisoners.
Us people: criminals shouldn’t be allowed to vote!
Then proceed to vote for and elect a criminal.
Then they do it again. Just because.That’s not USA exclusive in any way.
MURICA! WOO FREEDUMB!
In the US, slavery is legal for prisoners. The US has the largest prison population in the world. This is not a coincidence.
How come I can’t tell the difference between this slavery, and normal work?
From a Billionaire’s perspective, a millionaire is a pauper. A regular working person might as well be a slave. They work hard for much of their lives for pennies, and are terrified THAT will go away.
And modern wage slavery also carries the improved advantage that the employer no longer has to provide housing, food, or medical care. The slaves have to pay for all that out of their pennies.
We’re ALL already slaves.
Oh. Work is the same. But as a prisoner you get even less money. Between 0,12dollars and 1,41.
https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/inmate-prison-work-pay-united-states-6b540f
So the main difference between slavery and work is you get paid less, and don’t have the option of being permanently unemployed and homeless.
And not having the right to say “fuck you” to the boss and leave.
Are you being for real right now?
You are aware that the thirteenth amendment (the one that abolishes slavery) explicitly allows for slavery to continue “as punishment”.
This isn’t like some weird leftist take, slavery is quite literally legal in US prisons.
Oh, sorry Claude, forgot you don’t understand words.
Love when the username checks out!
red states use prisoners as part of the census, so they can maintain the gop house seats in thier states.
One of the many ways in which those in power in the US systematically enslave and disenfranchise people of color to this day.
More fun facts, slavery is still legal in the USA (for prisoners) and the USA imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other country. The ruling class just makes everything illegal and enjoys unlimited slave labor!
They intend to greatly increase the use of prisoner slave labor, and will be using it to punish political prisoners they have labeled ANTIFA terrorists, just for posting messages like this one.
They want to identify everyone on the Internet, not so they can keep children from learning that boys and girls have different genitalia, but so they can find the ANTIFA Terrorists, imprison them, take away their right to vote, and then lease them out to Sociopathic Oligarchs for whatever dangerous, unregulated work they need done - mining, environmental clean-up, construction, roadwork, crop harvesting, etc.
All those jobs that immigrants used to do? ANTIFA Terrorists can do them.
More non violent prisoners behind bars than any country to ever exist!
As long as the electoral college exists, voting is meaningless.
That’s an exaggeration. If voting was meaningless, they wouldn’t bother with things like gerrymandering or other ways of restricting the vote.
I mean, while it wasn’t a good outcome for the people at large, Trump was very much not wanted by established power when he was first elected. And yet…
I’ll upvote Lee Carter tweet screenshots all day long.
