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  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I fucking hate these subs. I feel like there are a whole slew of them, but the ones that stick out are /r/BeAmazed and /r/InterestingAsFuck. /r/HumansAreMetal was also one like this for a while too, but that sub seems dead.

    Like, what am I supposed to fucking take away from the fact that THIS is the sub this content is in. “WOW SO FUCKING AMAZING WTF!?!?!” hillgasm

    Same with subs like, /r/InterestingAsFuck. Like, look at the top of reddit right now:

    “AW DUDE THAT IS SO FUCKING INTERESTING HOLY SHIT!!” wowee

    Some selects from Top of /r/InterestingAsFuck this week:

    shocked-pikachu AW SHIT SO FUCKING INTERESTING FUCK ME DEAD!

    surprised-pika HOHOHO WOWOWOWOW THATS REALLY INTERESTING FUCKING SHIT GOT DAMN

    surprised-pika-messed-up WHAT THE HELL HOLY FUCK THATS REAL FUCKING INTERESTING DOG

    I just don’t fucking get it. What even are these subs about? They all get astroturfed with this kind of shit all the time. They also love up voting posts like “Daddy sells his left leg on the black market to fund his daughter’s brain surgery” all the time, too.

  • brainw0rms [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    it’s funny that this could have been a lefty-inclined lib calling her komrade kamala as an endearing term (probably not, but still) and this other redditor immediately goes all yiiking-out communism BAD!!! morshupls

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    The Valley Springs owner, Herminigilda Noveda Manuel, pled guilty to felony elder abuse and was sentenced to a year in prison. The administrator, Edgar Babael, got probation for aiding in a crime.

    Got one year in prison by pleading guilty. A year in prison is not just the cost of doing business.

    For almost killing 19 people and being completely devoid of morality? Yeah, that’s nothing. And only one of the responsible people got any prison time.

    As a side note, the leftist policy on prisons should be making them humane and using them as a last resort, not abolition. This is the type of crime that any decent society should punish – not simply try to rehabilitate the offender, or make the victims whole, or keep the offender out of a position where they can re-offend, etc. The punishment should involve loss of freedom, not the abuse and lack of basic dignity common in existing U.S. prisons, but that punishment should happen. And there are many crimes where this is appropriate.

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      Prison abolition is partly premised on creating a society where this kind of crime cannot happen because the structures and systems that made it possible don’t exist. Can’t have a small group of people harm the elderly if the elderly are integrated members of a very social society and large parts of the community interact with them every day.

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        I agree that any leftist policy on criminal justice should be focused on “let’s fix the underlying social issues so thoroughly that far fewer crimes happen in the first place.” But even in the best possible world I still see horrible crimes happening some.

        A lot of abolitionists think this, too, which is why you see “abolitionist” language along the lines of “prison should not be the dominant mode of punishment, but the absolute last resort,” but the problem then becomes that’s not abolition. Abolishing slavery doesn’t mean “we can still do it in select circumstances,” it means you don’t do it ever. Leftists make that exact point when discussing prison labor and the 13th amendment. It’s not coherent to use “abolition” one way when discussing prison labor and another way when discussing imprisonment itself. Also, when people hear “prison abolition” for the first time, they take the term at face value and think we mean it literally, which makes most people dismiss it out of hand (“what about murderers?”). For those still willing to entertain the idea, we’re stuck immediately backing off the position we just staked out (“I don’t mean abolition abolition”). The phrase is just not a good way of communicating our good policy ideas, and seems to prevent a lot of leftists from developing their thinking on criminal justice in the first place (it’s either “prison abolition now” or “gulag!”, depending on the facts of a given case).

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      For almost killing 19 people and being completely devoid of morality? Yeah, that’s nothing. And only one of the responsible people got any prison time.

      And theres literally redditors going yass kween kamala over it 😭😭😭😭

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      A year in prison is what you’d expect for like…driving under the influence. Drug dealers have gotten longer sentences for marijuana distribution.

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    Ngl I’d have been more joyful if the owners behind the care home got rounded up and burned at the stake for not safely transferring their residents to an actual operational facility instead of just leaving them to rot to death in an abandoned building (then again this is fucking America and the healthcare system is an overall horror show). This sadly isn’t at all uncommon with the horrible shit that can go down for nursing homes with others abandoning residents during fucking forest fires.

    Do gotta say this is also an example of some people in healthcare being fucking saints and makes me proud to be a fellow prole.

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    Entire economic burden for caring for nearly 20 elderly people, many of whom need significant medical care, placed onto two unpaid men

    reddit logo: So wholesome epic bacon big chungus! blob-no-thoughts