countrypunk
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- Comment on Even California can't say no to prison slavery. 4 hours ago:
Nice repost (spread it as far as you can)
- Comment on (:3) 2 days ago:
The circle of life
- Comment on (:3) 2 days ago:
Humor is subjective and you’re entitled to your opinion, but that’s just my rationale for why I personally find it funny. I’m just poking fun. No hard feelings towards you.
- Comment on Just asking questions. 2 days ago:
- Comment on Remember when things were shitty, but not *this* shitty? 2 days ago:
And yet, we keep moving forward. You’ve made it this far.
- Comment on Just asking questions. 2 days ago:
This is a high concept post. Ten thousand granules of potash be upon you.
- Comment on (:3) 2 days ago:
I see that you’re unenlightened, so I shall enlighten you to the glorious cause. Minions have gone into post-ironic territory. They’re funny because they were once near-universally considered cringe and made fun of, so in posting that in an ironic way, it becomes funny to the in-group, but in the process of that we’re right back where we started which is that minions are funny.
Whereas in [postmodern]irony(en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_literature#Iro… “Postmodern literature”), something is meant to be cynically mocked and not taken seriously, and in new sincerity, something is meant to be taken seriously or “unironically”, post-irony combines these two elements by either having something absurd taken seriously or be unclear as to whether something is meant to be ironic.
So, I am indeed afraid that it is you that may be the boomer after all.
- Comment on You don't want to be sentenced to The Spire, right? 2 days ago:
:3
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- Comment on (:3) 2 days ago:
Yup, it helped oppress even more poor people 😍. Heaven forbid we have class solidarity /s
- Comment on (:3) 2 days ago:
I’d argue that it doesn’t limit it. The current incarcerated population in the US is 1.3 million. At the very peak of American slavery, the enslaved population was 4.4 million, which is a LOT of people, but you do have to take into consideration that the enslavers were financially responsible for providing food, water, and shelter to their slaves. Now the US taxpayer covers all of that and corporations can profit harder.
- Comment on (:3) 2 days ago:
The only exception to forced labor in the american constitution is for prisoners. Our prison system has been heavily based on punishment and not rehabilitation since the 1980s. We have the largest incarcerated population in the entire world by a very long shot. If you get arrested for something and are innocent but awaiting trial (can take 1-2 years) and can’t pay bail you will be in jail for that amount of time. You have to work a job while incarcerated in most cases. If you do get paid, it can be as little as 10 cents an hour and is not exempt from taxes.
Black people are disproportionately overrepresented in the system despite being just 13% of the population. Black people are more likely than white people to be found guilty and on average get longer sentences than white people for the exact same offence. Things associated with “black behavior” are more heavily criminalized. An example of this is the sentence duration of crack vs cocaine. Crack is more associated with poverty and blackness so it had a much longer minimum sentence than cocaine which is associated more with rich white circles. Basically our prison system unfairly targets people for being poor and a person of color.
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- Comment on Good morning I choose making the best of what you have. 4 weeks ago:
You know what, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it…if it’s broke fix it…if it’s-
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 4 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on The children yearn for the mines 4 weeks ago:
As an ex-child, I can confirm this is true.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 4 weeks ago:
I’m contributing valiantly to this cause with my farts
- Comment on Caveman technology 4 weeks ago:
Is this loss
- Comment on Shit Post 4 weeks ago:
😮
- Comment on Shit Post 4 weeks ago:
First shit of the year was a type 3
- Comment on Shit Post 4 weeks ago:
It’s shit bricks and shit fire, can’t you see?
- Comment on I never realized this 4 weeks ago:
The way that I’m gonna do it is whoever has the coolest/most unique last name is the one whose name is adopted. If they’re both equally cool, then hyphenated it is.
- Comment on New year, new me 4 weeks ago:
Goals
- Comment on Shit Post 4 weeks ago:
Who hasn’t shit for a year
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 33 comments
- Comment on I'm just a 20 year old guy, AMA 5 weeks ago:
How are you
- Submitted 1 month ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 5 months ago:
A lot of people on Lemmy are also on matrix, which is an FOSS alternative to discord.
- Comment on World Investing Almost 2× More Into Clean Energy As Fossil Fuels Now! 5 months ago:
Yay
- Comment on Customers who save on electric bills could be forced to pay Louisiana utility company for lost profits 5 months ago:
Won’t somebody help the poor poor shareholders crying in their yachts?
