• aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    How is trouble for states and reservations going to get worse? Every year more nonviolent drug offenders are released. Not enough of them are being released but a token amount. There’s no legislation coming down the pipe to increase penalties for minor users and already delta-9 is legal and freely sold. Where are you getting your data?

    https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12270

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        8 months ago

        That does not qualify for the modifier worse. It’s still bad. But it’s not yet getting worse.

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          8 months ago

          Cop City

          Journalist and protesters in the US killed or imprisoned by cops

          Corporations using prison labor

          More things are qualifying as jailable offenses such as people’s social status or medical conditions/events/etcetera or jobs

          Cops are increasingly more prone to protect corporate interests over the public’s (who wrote that story The Last Capitalist the one were one man owned the earth including oxygen and sold it with cops protecting him?)

          a president who back tracked on every campaign promise to address policing issues

          the next election is against two people want to continue doing all the above and more

          barely leave just for the grocery store anymore

          it is getting worse your next trip outside could involve a black bag over our heads

          fucking dystopian horror show like out there

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            8 months ago

            Yes policing in this country in general is getting worse. The school to prison pipeline using SROs to imprison children is abhorrent and you didn’t even mention it.

            However your initial argument is that weed convictions are getting worse. And there’s nothing to support that claim.

            What you are mentioning are general broad stroke ills that we have to, as Americans address by holding our leaders accountable, voting in local elections and uplifting marginalized intersectional voices to the national level.

            Shit is dire, but we have to be specific and precise in our criticism or we’ll be discounted outright.

            Leftists have to work so much harder to even be heard let alone change anything, and we cannot do that without precise irrefutable positions and easily understood and concise points.