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The US has the highest real incarceration per capita on the planet except Seychelles, mostly for nonviolent crimes that were instituted (War on Drugs) by Nixon
by throwaway838475 7y ago
The US has the highest real incarceration per capita on the planet except Seychelles, mostly for nonviolent crimes that were instituted (War on Drugs) by Nixon to attack the poor, minorities and other “opponents.” Also consider the number of for-profit prisons and the prison industrial complex that runs transportation, staffing and internal services for the public prisons.
It’s also worth carefully re-reading the text of the 13th amendment. The giant slavery loophole is as-intended. The Union lost the Civil War while it got to declare “Mission Accomplished” because Abraham Lincoln sold-out civil society. Slavery continues as corporations profit by exploiting cheap labor paid on average under $1/hour. Systematic disenfranchisement is profitable.
- toasterlovin 7y agoYour comment is incredibly hyperbolic. The Union won the civil war. Slavery in its most overwhelmingly common form was ended. Millions of black Americans were freed. Whatever his other faults and shortcomings, Lincoln presided over the sacrifice of many men’s lives to bring about that momentous change.