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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you just want to pay a lot of money to make them miserable, and also waive any benefit that society could recoup from having them be fed.

Pretty much what they want, but some are even worse. There is a phrase "3 hots and a cot" to mean 3 meals and a place to sleep. People like my uncle say it with disgust, as if they shouldn't be fed, that they're somehow on an enviable vacation being in prison... They're so gross...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yep, familiar with that phrase. I've also heard stories of people "robbing" banks for a dollar just so they could get put in jail for that bare minimum of food and shelter (and idk if it's true but the unhesitating believability of it alone is a damning indictment). So really, by withholding food and shelter from free people, we're incentivizing criminal activity.

    Do these law & order, fiscal conservative republicans want to lower the crime rate and reduce spending or not?

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