• spacegoat@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    There are people facing weed sentences with harsher time than developing rogue nuclear weapons

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      3 hours ago

      Americans are INSANE about how much the want criminals punished, in CA a guy got a life sentence for stealing a pizza when we tried to have a ‘‘three strikes your out’’ law that automatically gave life sentences at any third conviction which is fucking crazy in a state with tack on laws to the point you can get convicted of 10+ crimes on almost every single infraction, if you commit a felony with a pen or pencil in your pocket, that’s possession of a lethal weapon! it’s absurd. it’s still on the books the three strikes law, but it’s unenforceable because apparently having 60% of your population in prison for life is not a great plan for a civilization.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        43 minutes ago

        America has Private Prisons + Slavery is literally legal in the US for those in Prison.

        As usual, it’s performative moralism hiding the real reason: $$$.

    • xrs@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Well, they were probably trying to develop that weed into rogue nuclear weapons.