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No, I don't want Hunter Biden to be in jail. My life is not improved either way if he's pardoned or not pardoned. Stop centering him.

I'm centering the 2 million+ people unfairly in prison and jail under racistly applied and excessively harsh drug and weapons sentencing laws put in place by Biden.

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There are 8.2 billion people on planet earth. Some other countries are supposedly draconian, and police states.

So tell me why 1 in every 5 prisoners on planet earth, is locked up in the US?

And why most US prisoners are locked up pre-trial?

Mainly for low level drug charges, pushed for by Biden?

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@mekkaokereke It's a very simple question to answer: Capitalism. As long as we have for-profit prisons, we will have incarceration for profit.

mekka okereke :verified:

@BadMojo

No.

That is a very unhelpful simplification of the very specific point that my thread makes. And it's not true. You don't need to end capitalism to end mass incarceration.

I understand that you want to talk about capitalism in general. I'm talking about Biden in particular. The specific racist laws he passed, and their impacts.