• Garbanzo@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The nonviolent kind. People who made dumb mistakes breaking bullshit laws. It’s not something I pay much attention to so I don’t have a list to rattle off, but they certainly exist.

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      6 months ago

      The nonviolent kind. People who made dumb mistakes breaking bullshit laws. It’s not something I pay much attention to so I don’t have a list to rattle off, but they certainly exist.

      Part of the problem with this stance is that the US has a knack for also locking up innocent people.

      Take this, for instance, where they coerced a confession, locked up a Dad for 8 months, and the actual perp left a pair of shoes with his name written in them at the fucking scene:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Riley_Fox

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        6 months ago

        That’s a valid point. I don’t take anything the police or courts say at face value, but does anyone dispute that Xandan is in prison for being a violent piece of shit?

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        6 months ago

        Because we have a callous justice system that exists to feed slave labor to capitalists. It’s not a system designed to rehabilitate or facilitate penance. It doesn’t exist to benefit society at large. People who get caught up in it without actually victimizing anyone deserve sympathy at the very least.

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          6 months ago

          My “why?” is asking why you don’t have sympathy for those other than the ones you mentioned.