• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    Do I have to remind everyone the ending of The Wolf of Wall Street?

    Tap for spoiler

    Rich people go to ricb people prisons that aren’t really prisons and are better than your house.

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      8 hours ago

      I don’t really care which prison they go to, as long as they also get leased out to do dirty, dangerous, back-breaking manual labor like every other Federal 13th Amendment Labor Slave. Grab that shovel, Inmate 4547.

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          5 hours ago

          I get it. I remember reading that Ghislane Maxwell was “much much happier” with her new accomodations saying that the food was “legions better,” and staff was “responsive and polite.” Isn’t that nice for her?

          But the business model of American prisons includes 13th Amendment Slavery, so she might not be as happy with that twist.

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      9 hours ago

      I don’t begrudge rich people going to rich people prison, because the point of prison is to remove dangerous people from society not to torture them in a cage. I do begrudge poor people going to poor people prison, because it seems as though these prisons exist as a means of extracting cheap labor from poor and PoC populations. Or outright abusing them - mentally, physically, and sexually - because this kind of brutality generates political rewards.