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In the plants I bet 25% of people believe something like this. I honestly wasn't even thinking of this, many people in my family think that COVID is fake and 5g is what is making people sick. I was more thinking of random people in Oklahoma coming up to me and telling me crazy stuff.
The prison for profit complex should be a scandal. >

Seriously. It’s so fucking disgusting, like, we all know about it, it’s not a secret, yet nothing, absolutely fuck all, gets done about it. 
I like money as much as the next guy and I’ve done some borderline shady shit to make money but I just cannot imagine making money from knowingly depriving my fellow countrymen of their liberty, oftentimes on trumped up bogus charges or innocent people altogether. The idea of denying an innocent or undeserving person of their freedom is just abhorrent to me; no amount of money could ever make me feel good about it. The people who run the prison industrial complex, lobby for increased harsh sentencing guidelines, lawmakers who pass these laws and take kickbacks, cops who target people and manufacturer evidence and charges to meet quotas, the judges who have corrupt arrangements to convict more and more people to these prisons, and the bloodsuckers who invest in these modern day plantations are all culpable in one of the most atrocious human rights abuses in our nations history. They are fucking evil, vile, morally repugnant, reprehensible people, who should be fucking ashamed of their existence. 
Everyone that knowingly plays a role in this process should be locked up for good in the same prisons and conditions that they profit from. >


I like money as much as the next guy and I’ve done some borderline shady shit to make money but I just cannot imagine making money from knowingly depriving my fellow countrymen

Your first mistake, you view people as fellow human. Once you dehumanize Inmates it becomes easier. It's why ideology like the Thin Blue Line, and the warrior cop is so dangerous. As  Edward James Olmos said "There's a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people"
The people who profit from the suffering of others believe they're only ones morally superior enough to determine who's a valuable member of society and who should be enemies of the state. >

"You call somethin' a war, pretty soon you're gonna have everybody runnin' around actin' like warriors. They'll be on a damn crusade, stormin' corners, slappin' on cuffs, racking up body counts. And in a war, you need a fuckin' enemy; and pretty soon damn near everybody on every corner's your fuckin' enemy, and the neighborhood you supposed to be policin', that's just occupied territory." 

Colvin, from The Wire. >

"And before we went and took the wrong turn and started with these war games, the cop walked a beat and he learned that post. And if there were things that happened up on that post whether there be a rape, a robbery, a shooting; he had people out there helping him, feeding him information." >

where else is AL gonna get all that free labor >


They are supposed to ask if someone has been adequately punished. She’s 71 and has served 19 years, without violations in 12 years,” Cobb said. “Then the next question is: Do they pose a risk to public safety? The woman is in a wheelchair and cannot even go to the bathroom by herself. She’s dying and they just denied her parole. It is an injustice. It is shameful.  

Ignorance is part of the problem. >

Clearly, the people of AL LOVE this, and probably want more of it, along with all the other awful things that happen there and are easily avoidable. Presumably, because they feel the targets are "others" and not "good people", ya know, like Jesus would've said and done. I'll never live or vacation there. Beyond that, no idea how this gets fixed or changed with a salivating populace. >

Alabama and Oklahoma are not talked about enough. We always hear about Florida and Texas.
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I'm from Houston and I've never ran into more nutty people than those in Oklahoma and I've lived in NYC as well. >

Im in Houston, too, and while the small Texas towns are whacky, I found Alabama straight crazy on top of absolutely mental. The number of people that think that Bill Gates is microchipping them to eat their babies' adrenochrome and listening to them through the walls in their moldy 2 bedroom where the floor IS the ashtray is wild.