• 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
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    32 minutes ago

    When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals

    I don’t know, SOAD radicalized me when I was a teenager and I would say that this is bullshit from a criminological point of view.

  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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    54 minutes ago

    And yet Americans elected this man for a second term, by popular vote this time. He’s not the only genius there.

  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    Wasn’t that place at least as famous for successful escapes as it was for being a tough and scary place of punishment? If you’re whole bag is turning back the clock to a time you thought was tougher, more punitive and therefore somehow more effective at deterrence and your decisions are more cultural than rational; shouldn’t you pick somewhere not famous specifically for failing at it’s entire purpose of existence?

  • GladiusB@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Has he been there? Like it’s fuckin old. And small. Like really small. I don’t know if he can legally do that either. Since it’s a state park.

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    9 hours ago

    He really is a profoundly stupid man. Everyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.

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        53 minutes ago

        Inbreeding is more likely to produce offspring, but also more likely to produce offspring with genetic defects, and marrying someone very genetically different is less likely to produce offspring, but dangers are fewer.

        I mean, provided you can’t find a neanderthal to marry today, the latter concern is not too important.

        So both are not too bad, fertility is important sometimes. It’s the natural regulation of population.

        BTW, about diversity and all that … it’s good, but triggers the psychological and biological mechanisms (EDIT: reducing fertility) in the parts of population smart enough to be diverse.

        So nature also regulates such disturbances. Like the Force in Star Wars. Humanity works the way that if smartasses become too smart, dumbasses would have their asses so it would all cancel out to a more even distribution.

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    10 hours ago

    So… You take a prison which:

    • Generates $60M yearly from being currently a museum;
    • Needs serious rebuilding and modernization;
    • Needs a way to be supplied with safe water, plus constant deliveries of all other necessities, likely by boat.

    And you get:

    • A prison which generates little to no revenue, while needing to be kept functioning.
    • Only has its name and somber history going in its favor, because “prisoners should be afraid of the historic evil prison”.

    Yes. Brilliant idea. Hopefully by the time the prison is ready Trump and his cronies get to be the first “tenants”. And whoever comes next declares the prison closed again and leaves them rotting there.

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      But it is a typical Trump deal, selling vibes of “doing it the rough old way, with guns and hookers and lead paint and gasoline that makes your windows rainbow-colored”.

      That’s what he sells. His fans know it’s not achievable, they want a mess sufficient for something better to evolve, and vibes for them signify that mess. It’s a bit like Shadow ideology in Babylon V.

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      6 hours ago

      Yes…?

      It was literally NEVER about the money being spent by the government. Anyone who actually believed that is by dictionary definition, dumb.

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        Next up on truth social:

        ONE OF MY SUBORDINATES JINGLED HIS KEYS IN FRONT OF ME FOR HOURS. I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS MUCH ENJOYMENT IN MY LIFE.

        MAKE JINGLING KEYS GREAT AGAIN!

  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    The last thing that America needs is another jail. They have more jails and inmates than any other country on the planet. Also it would cost much more to refurbish Alcatraz than it would to build a new jail. The orange rapist is an idiot.