Free labor is the cornerstone of US economics.
Land of the unpaid
The drive of capitalism is to make slaves and kings
You don't have to be in prison to be a prisoner
Insert "Hey Jarvis" meme here
"Would you like to hear about the Panopticon Effect and its role in maintaining the Ideological State Apparatus?"
Free as in Facebook.
Largest prison population SO FAR.
Those numbers are gonna go waay up soon.
Also if you count the nazi concentration camps then those were probably bigger but idk the number of US prisoners so enlighten me.
I expect it will, but does that ranking hold true on a per capita basis?
#5 worldwide.
The ranking goes as follows
- El Salvador
- Cuba
- Rwanda
- Turkmenistan
- USA
Notably, all the 4 countries above the US have less than 10x the total amount of prisoners that the US does
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
And even more now with prop 36 passing
Both things can be true. America is proof of this. Our freedom is the reason we ended up with the stupid fascist president two times. We had a (mostly) free and fair election and we used that to be really, really dumb.
Our freedom is the reason we ended up with the stupid fascist president two times.
Nope. Blind belief that a 1700s system would adequately protect the will of the people against 21st century bad actors including the kinds of mega corporations that didn't exist for decades if not a century after the founding.
We had a (mostly) free and fair election
Nope. Very far from it.
We had a (mostly) free and fair election
Things said only by the the absolute muricabrained.
muricabrained
Things said only by unserious people not worth trying to have a good faith conversation with 😅
