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west coast smoker | certified mind blower they/them | i have no direction in life 30something | 18+ only pls

[parkchanwoohoo]

[thatnordicguy]

[paperpalooka]

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[imsopopfly]

As someone who has interned at a courthouse and seen all the folks who got arrested go through probable cause court - it doesn’t really hit you just how disproportionate that shit is until you see that. Most of the people going through that court were POC, and most of them were there for piddly little shit like getting caught smoking weed. Never saw a white person go through there for smoking weed, and I know a lot of white people who smoke weed. They’ll find any excuse to lock up minorities.

[herwildbeloved]

This Pride Month, I am begging queer orgs to branch out from hosting events at bars and breweries. Some of us are sober, neurodivergent, and COVID conscious and it makes it so goddamn hard to find community when everything revolves around consuming alcohol in crowded indoor spaces.

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

"The middle class is not our enemy" yeah and the people you need to be convincing of that is the fucking middle class.

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

Sorry I fucking hate these condescending ass posts. How dare the poor get uppity at people. Meanwhile half of the middle class is voting to eradicate homeless people off the streets.

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

They're okaying means testing because of racism and are fine with anti-homeless architecture because homeless people are dirty and scary and want candidates who are "tough on crime" I really do mean it. The people you need to convince of that are the middle class.

[pokeballvictimized]

i wonder if i'll still have a blog tomorrow when i wake up!!!! it looks like posts are getting deleted right off my blog so idkkkkkkkkkkkk

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

well that didn't take long, less than an hour. @staff do you wonder why we loathe you?

[piratewithvigor]

Just saw a bird get a worm at 8:06pm.

Never let the morning people say it can't be done

[mischiefcoldbrew]

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[exposenature]

[catchyvideos]

[ruinedchildhood]

[thememedaddy]

[effinbirds]

[tinybed]

[comealongphil]

dawn dimmadome? wife of doug dimmadome, owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome?

[punkrorschach]

actually she took the dimmadome in the dimmadivorce

[numboone]

What does this mean 😭

[molabuddy]

3 hours of sleep = i hate people who laugh

0 ours of sleep = waouw 🌼🌼🌼🌼🐎

[molabuddy]

we all need to take better care of our selfs or we might Pass away

[sugar-petals]

rare W for the church. clearly underestimated nerd pope geeks out to declare holy war against AI, defeating heretics with LOTR and STEM

[nullwronskian]

Please stop falling for the catholic church’s rebranding efforts. They own a shitton oh hospitals and are refusing to treat trans patients. Stop being gullible idiots, please. For one fucking day dont be dumb.

[sovietnam]

[effinbirds]

[dogpuppy]

[advanced-passenger-train]