... which is ultimately for the better. This way I can die with a clear conscience.
i envy you and i wish i could say the same thing because i have to vote for biden or else we'll regress backwards in addition to dying.
I get what you are saying, but we allready have a prison system focusing on rehabilitation, and it doesn’t phase the gangs.
you'll never stop the gangs; but you can make it more difficult to operate if it becomes getting harder to find new gang members and less cost effective to retain the ones trapped in their sphere.
By increasing the length of prison sentences, we atleast keep them contained for longer.
that's what i meant by viable alternatives to their situation; no matter how long you contain them they eventually have to return to their situation and all at great cost.
If you have any other suggestion, please go ahead and tell me.
aggressive outreach is a more effective tactic at combating gangs
he also has a front seat view to this country's rightward shift and i wonder how frustrating it is to be so close to the levers of power to stop it; but to be blocked both your adversaries and your allies each time you try to reach for them.
i sometimes wonder if he wishes he had stayed more of a celebrity than a politician.
In my mind we need heavier punnishment, we need containment punnishments, way longer punnishments for those who are not interested in rehab which our justice system focuses on, after two times caught they need to get an automatic 10x the time normally given. If people are not interested in being part of a working society, then I’d rather they stay locked up.
we do that here; not only does it both not work well and allows people to profit from exacerbating it; it fixes a lot less and costs a lot more than treating it like a societal issue; changing policy; and aggressive outreach.
we've also had recidivism rates drop when convicts were given alternatives viable to their situation instead of focusing on the punishment.
But if you group the far right with the increasingly far right “conservatives”, it looks much more bleak.
we've been in that situation since the 1980's; our center-right and our far right are our only choices for president now.
i used to think europe's democracies were ahead since they carried on with progressive initiatives the americans stopped doing in the 1970's, but now i wonder if europe's lurch rightwards is them catching up to the americans.
after winning a simple majority
don't listen to them; our systems beats theirs because you don't even need a majority to win over here thanks to the electoral college and gerrymandering. lol
If they had run someone under the age of 40 I imagine every leftist voter under the age of 50 would have been voting for them.
i got so high earlier tonight that it felt like it was the first time for too brief of a moment.
i realized that the shit biden put me through sucked and that i wouldn't wish it on anyone and now i have an infinitesimally small chance of helping make sure that it doesn't happen to anyone else. plus it helps the progress made last a little bit longer this time around the world's historical political pendulum. it's not the right decision, but it's also not the wrong one.. the wrong one will recreate what i had to go through for others.
i think i need to get high more often; it would be a lot easier to do if sugar free and delicious edibles were a thing.
i'm one of the people he's hurt with his anti-gay; college debt; and medical bills agenda, it gives me a visceral reaction each time i read a lemmite (lemmy-ite?) refuse to believe that he did it when it's takes less that 30 seconds on google to confirm it.
I’ve done what this man did a lot of times with no penalty
same here and i would be in his same position if don't ask don't tell hadn't become a very publicized thing; instead i'm only scarred 6x over by the shit they've done to gay people that the lemmyverse likes to ignore for some reason
Yes; every time a city, county, or state does this; it ends up getting shutdown no matter how successful they are