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    Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
    The answer is drugs especially pot, you simpleton. That's the right-wings fault.
    Marijuana is legal in 11 states .... other states it’s a misdemeanor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Celticguy View Post
    Taking action could mean petitioning your elected representatives to take whichever legislative action you find wrong. Speaking out on a chatboard changes nothing.
    speaking out on a chatboard changes everything, fascist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    Hey asshole, can't you type with normal sized letters? The enlarged type doesn't make you look any more intelligent. Everyone knows you're an idiot...

    She’s a child saying .... look at me , look at me !

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    and creating more laws, harsher penalties, and corrupt judiciary increases incarceration.

    sorry you're deeply invested in slavery. you should be a better person
    If you dont like the laws or sentencing, change them.
    But paying less for incarceration is a good thing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    You are not wrong that what we discuss on here has no impact in the real world. Hell, even if all 30 or so regular posters here woke up one morning and decided we all agree on everything and we would vote the same way nothing would change.

    In theory, this board is a medium for an exchange of ideas. We all know it's mostly sh*t talking and trolling but still discussions over policy where ever they occur are not a bad thing.
    Yes. And my idea is to reach out to those who can effect change.
    The squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Celticguy View Post
    If you dont like the laws or sentencing, change them.
    But paying less for incarceration is a good thing.
    profitting from increased incarceration is bad thing, one of those "unintended consequences" that's totally happening, yet ignored by greedy anti-human fascists like you. it's all bad, ya walking moral tragedy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    profitting from increased incarceration is bad thing, one of those "unintended consequences" that's totally happening, yet ignored by greedy anti-human fascists like you. it's all bad, ya walking moral tragedy.
    Cute meme but it makes no sense.
    Cops still have to find criminals and prove it.
    Judges sentence per legislated guidelines.
    Fewer criminals = less crime. Society doesnt like crime.

    If you dont like the laws/sentencing, change it. Blaming cost saving measures is not a winning stretegy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Celticguy View Post
    Cute meme but it makes no sense.
    Cops still have to find criminals and prove it.
    Judges sentence per legislated guidelines.
    Fewer criminals = less crime. Society doesnt like crime.

    If you dont like the laws/sentencing, change it. Blaming cost saving measures is not a winning stretegy.
    I'd like a law against private prisons. or prison labor. id like legalization of all drugs. or a law against imprisonment for all non violent crimes.

    you keep being part of the fascist problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    That's true. 20% of the prison population is there for non-violent drug use.
    No one is in prison for simply marijuana use. And, do you really want to defend a heroin dealer as a poor victim of drug prohibition?
    Ape lives matter. Stop putting them in zoos. Boycott businesses that don't hire apes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobb View Post
    No one is in prison for simply marijuana use. And, do you really want to defend a heroin dealer as a poor victim of drug prohibition?
    Well, possession, which is necessary in order to use 608,775 incarcerated

    https://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/drug-war-statistics

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobb View Post
    No one is in prison for simply marijuana use. And, do you really want to defend a heroin dealer as a poor victim of drug prohibition?
    Yes. In a free country, adults should be able to do whatever they want with their own bodies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Well, possession, which is necessary in order to use 608,775 incarcerated

    https://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/drug-war-statistics
    That says 608,755 were arrested for marijuana possession. It doesn't say they were incarcerated. None of them were imprisoned for possession per se.
    Ape lives matter. Stop putting them in zoos. Boycott businesses that don't hire apes.

    Then answered all the Jews, and said, Jesus' blood be on us, and on our children. So be it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Yes. In a free country, adults should be able to do whatever they want with their own bodies.
    So, you want to defend heroin dealers who kill people? Not just defend, but make them out to be some sort of heroes so you can sob about how awful it is that any of them would go to prison.

    Legality is one thing. Championing scum, as you're doing, is another.
    Ape lives matter. Stop putting them in zoos. Boycott businesses that don't hire apes.

    Then answered all the Jews, and said, Jesus' blood be on us, and on our children. So be it.
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    So many Americans are in prison because neggers love to steal your stuff.

    In 2012, only 1% of federal inmates were locked up for drug possession, and most of those convictions had aggravating circumstances (e.g. they were pleaded down from more serious crimes). Even less than 1% now. You morons need to stop advertising how stupid you are by pretending that the drug war is what's filling up our prisons. Go watch the video in the OP before you vomit up your ignorance again.
    Ape lives matter. Stop putting them in zoos. Boycott businesses that don't hire apes.

    Then answered all the Jews, and said, Jesus' blood be on us, and on our children. So be it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobb View Post
    That says 608,755 were arrested for marijuana possession. It doesn't say they were incarcerated. None of them were imprisoned for possession per se.
    You are correct, arrested, my bad. However, you can not state that none were imprisoned.

    We also don’t have good data for state prisons — where more than 87 percent of US prison inmates are held, based on federal data. But we do know that a minority of state prisoners are in for drugs: In 2015, 3.4 percent of all state prisoners were in for drug possession and 11.7 percent were in for other drug-related crimes.

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