Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything.
In four out of five states, if you go to prison, you are literally paying for the time you spend there.
As you can guess, this results in crippling debt as soon as you’re released.
The county gets back a fraction of what they hold over your head the rest of your life until you commit suicide(or die naturally and peacefully with the sword of damocles hanging over your head).
$20-$80 a day according to Rutgers.
Counties apparently sue people and employ wage garnishment to get back the money that majority of people obviously cannot pay back.
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/states-unfairly-burdening-incarcerated-people-pay-stay-fees
How do you think you get electoral reform? Because the democrats sure as hell are never gonna give it to you if you keep voting for their garbage bottom of the barrel candidates. American politics really are a shit show, you’re trying to act like you’re the reasonable one but getting so damn belligerent.
Mass protests, general strikes, voting in progressives that actually stand a chance, etc.
I know they won’t, which is why you vote in the primaries.
You know who sure as hell are never gonna give it to you? Third party candidates. You can’t make reform if you don’t get voted into office in the first place.
Genrrallt you don’t get bottom of the barrel candidates if you actually work to put forth good candidates in the primaries. And a bottom of the barrel democrat with always be better than an outright fascist republican.
Hey, if you don’t like how I’m responding, maybe don’t start with saying things like
Practice what you speak.
Name one time when you havent gotten a bottom of the barrel candidate? Look what they did to my boy Bernie. He wasn’t even ideal but at least he had a shot and the democrats you’re praising tanked him. They’re playing you, intentionally holding up an awful boogeyman constantly and saying “if you don’t vote for our piece of shit we’re gonna give you the bigger piece of shit.” The only way to win is not to play their game. Maybe if they lose enough voters they’ll get the message but they sure as hell won’t if you keep letting them win.
Summer Lee
I’ve voted for her at least 4 times now to get her into office and keep her there throughout the last few primaries and generals.
I am well aware, and I’m pissee off about that too. It should have been Bernie for the last 8 years.
I think you don’t understand where I am coming from. In no way am I praising the democrats that tanked him.
Yeah, I know they’re using it to their advantage. It shitty as fuck, and a direct result of our electoral system. They know that third parties aren’t viable due to the mathematical requirement of the spoiler effect being a part of our current system. So they use it to their advantage.
But there is the thing, under Trump, we may lose our right to vote. We might end up seeing a true dictatorship. He’s already floating the idea of a second Jan 6th.
I’d rather live in the current corporate run dystopia than an outright fascist version called Gilead.
Yeah, I’m really going to feel like I’m winning when I’m lined up against a wall under the next Trump administration.
The Biden campaign managers know they’re losing voters to this shit, they aren’t that stupid. They’re gambling that the status quo will land them the most votes. It’s fucking stupid, but they clearly don’t care about losing votes to this issue.
The one who just voted for the military industrial complex with H.R.8035?
You continue to vote for a party that has a rigged primary with super delegates.
Remember you consented to this.
The request was for “not bottom of the barrel”, not perfect. If you’re looking for a perfect politician, you’ve defined an impossible task.
No. I vote against the worst, the party openly embracing fascism.
I’d rather consent to corporate run dystopia than fascism.
Meanwhile you’re consenting to fascism with your choice to throw away your vote. You do not have the high ground here.
We have different standards. I couldn’t live with myself voting for billions to Raytheon and Boeing like you do.
You could do that without voting for “corporate run dystopia” by voting green party.
I’m consenting to neither.
Nope. You just admitted that you are. This is how voting works lmao. I’m literally not by casting a vote against it, and you are.
Voting for a politician is not an open agreement with every action they take. I didn’t vote for billions to go to war manufacturers. I voted against Trump.
Thus splitting the vote and landing us in Gilead, no thanks. I don’t want to get killed by the state for being LGBTQ+
Gonna straight up steal from a different user.
"Voting does sort of make you complicit, honestly.
But guess what? Not voting also makes you complicit. So does voting in a way that has no chance of having an effect based on the current rules.
Basically, existing as an eligible voter, at least in a country where voting isn’t rigged (so like, Russians are off the hook here, for example) makes you complicit in your government’s actions.
That’s kind of a big point of being in a democratic society - we are all, every one of us, responsible for the actions of our government.
And if you don’t like that responsibility, I get it, I totally sympathize, because I agree. I hate that responsibility, especially cause I know damn well I’m not qualified to make those decisions. But I still am responsible, and pretending I’m not doesn’t change that."
https://lemmy.world/comment/9735774
So bullshit. I’m assuming you voted 3rd party in 2016. You chose to vote in a way that had no chance of having any effect to stave off Trump. So you are complicit in Trump. You consented to Trump. And thanks to people like you, we are now losing abortion access. The SCOTUS is now openly debating if a president can have political opponents killed. The road of fascism we are heading down is directly a result of people limply throwing pissing their vote into the wind.
You literally did, and are planning to in November.
Same here, by voting for the green party.
Nope. Most green voters I’ve convinced have been non-voters. They are the biggest voting block.
They just described why I vote green party.
Yes, that’s why we’re responsible for building a better party, very simple to understand.
I’m proud I did not consent to Trump or Clinton in 2016, you did. Green have a chance because Dems and Republicans are terrible. You’re just a scared, disenfranchised little child that can’t make your own decisions. I am responsible for improving my government, which is why I’m building a better option in the Green party. You do nothing but whine and submit to fascism, pathetic.