comment: >
  
  Why do they always look like thumbs?
context: This needs to be  the lead story on every news outlet in America for the next three days. Everyone needs to hear that you go to prison for 16 years for this shit. >
  
  Us govt wanted life in prison.  He got off easy. >
  
  Yeah the judge really threw the booklet at him. >
  
  Pamphlet >
  
  200 word "essay" >
  
  More of a comment, really >
  
  If it was up to me these guys would be deported to Siberia where they belong… BUT 16 years? Hopefully Atleast a decade? I’ll take it man. Fuck these guys >
  
  I'll take it too but imagine if they were a poor African American selling loose cigarettes. Straight to the death penalty!
  Factor in all kinds of good behavior and parole. This dude might do 5 years if he's lucky. >
  
  He would have to be very lucky. Federal parole is a fair bit harder to get than state parole. >
  
  That's good to hear >
  
  These useless pieces of shit were going to murder someone that was looking out for their best interests, I’d give them more than 16 years, but I’m no judge. >
  
  I think drug laws have really fucked with our sense of time when it comes to prison sentences. In a vacuum, 16 years is a long ass time >
  
  This is correct. America has such wildly long sentences compared to most of the world that sentences considered unjustly long by most are considered too short here. 
  You can thank the Sentencing Reform Act and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act for most of that. Cause it didn’t used to be that way until some folks who thought black people are scary wanted to inflate sentencing for “those people’s crimes” wink wink. >
  
  My favorite fact about the American penal system is that Americans make up about 5% of the global population but have 25% of the global inmate population. >
  
  To be fair, that statistic assumes accuracy of reported incarceration rates from some countries with questionable human rights records.
  And it doesn't take into account the higher rates of executions in some of those countries. >
  
  That's not much better, honestly.
  "Other countries with known systematic human rights violations might also be just as bad as the US, we just don't know for sure." >
  
  I take it more as "we suck but at least we admit it" >
  
  Admit it? Hell, some idiots out there are damned proud of it. >
  
  Let’s get the guys shooting power stations next. >
  
  I work in the area in WA that's been hit recently. It's so annoying having to deal with all of our computer equipment, servers, security systems, etc.. during prolonged power outages.
  I can't imagine how shitty it is for the people whose homes were hit. This was all done on the same weekend that we had one of the worst ice storms in decades. 
  The cops up here have been on some kind of restricted strike akin to quiet quitting, they're understaffed, and certain legislation up here has made the cops pretty apathetic to actually catching criminals. Hopefully now that this has made national news they'll make it a priority to investigate what's going on. >
  
  What legislation has even affected them badly?  Police budgets keep on rising. The public said “hey stop shooting unarmed civilians” and the whole fucking force decides to ignore crimes like a bunch of useless babies. >
  
  Their budgets didn't rise as much and they didn't like being told what they can't do. They don't want to be accountable. That's basically it. >
  
  
  Their budgets didn't rise as much and they didn't like being told what they can't do. They don't want to be accountable. That's basically it.
  
  This\^\^\^\^
  Their feelings were hurt.