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'Corruption in Plain Sight': AOC Warns Laken Riley Act a Boon to Private Prison Industry
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As an Australian, I really don't understand why the USA has a fucking PRISON INDUSTRY, like for profit corporations trying to get as many prisoners as possible so they can get that sweet sweet money.
Fuck me, if every single aspect of life has a corpo behind it, there's bound to be endless lobbying to completely halt progress in everything, which makes sense for the USA's homelessness, healthcare and education systems.
Tell me about it dude! I'm from goddamn California, the supposed "bastion" of liberal values and these fuckwits out here couldn't even vote to abolish prison labor cus "might increase cost of (unspecified) some services". Apparently they meant firefighting
The trash around me can eat the shit off my nastiest goddamn hemorrhoid
I voted to abolish that from our constitution, and figured it would pass with a cakewalk. It was the ONLY measure on my ballot that had no opposition. NO ONE AT ALL CAME OUT AND SAID DON'T VOTE FOR THIS. There were other measures on my ballot where the opposition was literally just some dude's name. Like not an organization, just a single person. The fucking wardens supported the measure. How the fuck did we fuck that up‽‽‽
Sorry for the rant. I know you didn't vote against it.
No need to apologize, this rant needs to be here, even if it's just so I know I'm not crazy.
We know who fucked it up anyhow. It's the same folks who vote against zoning in new residential, or for a charged express lane. They don't even need to talk about it, they're all on the same page. "People like me deserve a more convenient life."
The real shame is, the population who's most adversely affected by this crap is too tired at the end of the week to even keep an eye out for this. Let alone read up on what the right vote would even be.
America has been taken over by relentless billionaires in their endless quest for more wealth and power. What's there to understand?
It's not a country, it's a business. A large conglomerate that's slowly shrinking into whatever it is you wanna call it now.
Unfettered capitalism.
Because our constitution unfortunately EXPLICITLY allows it. The 13th amendment:
They didn't even wait till Lincoln was in the ground before shitting all over his legacy.
Uh mate . . . It’s here too.
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/prisons-for-profit-the-business-of-incarceration/wveqa43h5
Well I guess ignorance is bliss afterall