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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

That's someone asking for a lynching if I've ever heard one.

[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 4 points 13 hours ago

That’s nice.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where's a Luigi when you need one?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

We all gotta stop looking to others to solve our societal problems -batman or something idk

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What am I, a Norwegian living in Denmark, supposed to do about anything in America?

dress up in tights and hang around gotham?

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Many excited share holders too.

Private prisons need to be abolished like the cancer they are.

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"surely the shareholders will not abuse prisoners"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The shareholders are already abusing them in their dreams, if not reality

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Abusing themselves at the thought of abusing them, more like

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 21 points 1 day ago

He sees it as a final solution to the profitability of private prisons.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 9 points 1 day ago

Great... CoreCivic, only a name I've been aware of for way too fucking long. So great to see more of the absolute fucking worst of us getting rewarded...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I'm just going to pretend I did some massive projectile vomiting and movie on to the next horror...