They’re not going to stop. People like this don’t stop. They don’t stop until forced. Power is the only language they understand.

and we have no one to stop them

It's not going to take "one" to stop them.

It'll take concerted group action.

Which seems impossible in a country of "rugged individualists" who don't seem to grasp the concept of working together toward a common goal.

(Don't just downvote me - prove my cynicism wrong)

We did but they missed.

Maybe we could stop them, instead of waiting for someone else to do it.

There has long been a dark undertow of anti-intellectuals and sick fuckers in this country that I've encountered with all my life that practically celebrate prison rape (of men by other men) because they think it's deserved. For pretty much any crime, they think that is part of the punishment.

They are sick and broken people, and unfortunately, it is part and parcel of the culture.

When W came along and proposed doing something about this, I remember having conversations much like I had on the playground, except with supposed functioning adults - they'd give blank stares as if they thought it was anathema to do something about it. They seriously think that rape (and other violence) is something you deserve in prison. Like it didn't even compute for them to have no tolerance for rape of men.

I'm sure these people think that trans/intersex "deserve" it even more so...

The ghouls on the supreme court have ruled that to be banned, a punishment must be both cruel and unusual. If it's cruel and common then it's fine for certain types of cruelty. Like solitary confinement lasting weeks, or months, or even years in some cases.

There are more okay forms of cruelty, and a lot of things that are banned, but fewer banned things than anyone with human empathy would condone.

W?

Ironically, W is the one that signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act. I remember talking to conservatives that thought W was speaking some kind of foreign language.

Sounds like socialism

No but you see, it's funny when men and minorities are raped.

/s

And a cock sucker himself

I wonder when Donvict issues executive order to reverse W's PREA.

I keep hoping that the people will come to their senses at some point. But I suspect that this is just what America is. I’ve never in my lifetime been more ashamed to be an American.

Americans genuinely seem to believe that sexual assault in prison is an engineered intention of the prison system. We also get an earful about how rape is the consequence of inmates assaulting one another with scant acknowledgement of the chronic abuse by prison staff against inmates.

No real consideration of why the US is uniquely positioned as having some of the most dangerous and deplorable prisons in the world. No real introspection surrounding the real purpose of inmate torture and abuse, or how it facilitates the profiteering off of inmate labor.

There literally could not be any other possible point to this, even if they tried

Goddamn, we're all fucking corruptable for a price, aren't we?

There is no hell - if we want them to ever face some kind of punishment for their actions, we're gonna have to do it ourselves...

I don't agree with that strategy either, but she didn't carry enough votes to have made the difference anyway...

Blame the non-voters for supporting this not the voters that didn’t vote for this.

According to the electoral college, every state either voted 100% for trump or harris. So no one voted for Jil Stein. And if you’re in a red state, NO ONE VOTED FOR HARRIS EITHER, and vice versa. Stop purposely being stupid of this fact.

Yeah, to al the assholes who decided not to vote for a progressive

We could've had West abolish prisons