Haha silly foreigner, you think we still follow that old piece of paper.

There has long been a dark undertow of anti-intellectuals and sick fuckers in this country that I've encountered with all my life that practically celebrate prison rape (of men by other men) because they think it's deserved. For pretty much any crime, they think that is part of the punishment.

They are sick and broken people, and unfortunately, it is part and parcel of the culture.

When W came along and proposed doing something about this, I remember having conversations much like I had on the playground, except with supposed functioning adults - they'd give blank stares as if they thought it was anathema to do something about it. They seriously think that rape (and other violence) is something you deserve in prison. Like it didn't even compute for them to have no tolerance for rape of men.

I'm sure these people think that trans/intersex "deserve" it even more so...

The ghouls on the supreme court have ruled that to be banned, a punishment must be both cruel and unusual. If it's cruel and common then it's fine for certain types of cruelty. Like solitary confinement lasting weeks, or months, or even years in some cases.

There are more okay forms of cruelty, and a lot of things that are banned, but fewer banned things than anyone with human empathy would condone.

Ironically, W is the one that signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act. I remember talking to conservatives that thought W was speaking some kind of foreign language.

Sounds like socialism

And a cock sucker himself

Americans genuinely seem to believe that sexual assault in prison is an engineered intention of the prison system. We also get an earful about how rape is the consequence of inmates assaulting one another with scant acknowledgement of the chronic abuse by prison staff against inmates.

No real consideration of why the US is uniquely positioned as having some of the most dangerous and deplorable prisons in the world. No real introspection surrounding the real purpose of inmate torture and abuse, or how it facilitates the profiteering off of inmate labor.

They'll have another No Kings march in a few months. That should do it.

Ah yes, blame the people not in charge just like the ruling class likes.

now now it is illegal to say that if you're talking about trump, but NOT illegal to say "with a mortar launcher" because that's its own sentence; it's an incomplete sentence that had absolutely nothing to do with what was said before that, so perfectly fine, perfectly legal.

still illegal to wish death on trump (as president) though, but technically legal to say "we have a group that meets fridays under the brooklyn bridge, we sing sabrina carpenter karaokes after meetings, and the password is 'sic semper tyrannis'".

There is no hell - if we want them to ever face some kind of punishment for their actions, we're gonna have to do it ourselves...

I still can't grasp this. No, Kamala was not my ideal candidate. No, I didn't agree with her on everything.

But in the US two party POS system, why would anyone think voting for the very much lesser of two evils is bad? It's insanity to just hand the reigns of America over to a terrorist organization. Jesus fucking christ.