A cartoon that isn't funny

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58. We are spending more money on prisons BECAUSE WE ARE PRIVATIZING THEM.

We have more people IN prison because of 1) the drug war and 2) CONTRACTS STATES SIGNED WITH THOSE PRIVATIZED PRISONS MANDATING OCCUPANCY OF 95% OR HIGHER.

There's also the school-to-prison pipeline. A corrupt judge in PA got thrown in the slammer for throwing schoolkids into the system, for "offenses" as tiny and inconsequential as tardiness to class. He's serving time now, and most (NOT all) of those convictions were reversed and most (NOT all) of the criminal records expunged.

The Innocence Project has freed a lot of people wrongfully convicted of crimes the project was able to conclusively prove, to a 100% certainty, they did not commit. Many of those released were facing capital punishment. But for that project, we would have executed people who are 100%, no denying it innocent (NOT "not guilty&quot of the crimes for which they were imprisoned. Those people alone are more than enough reason for anyone without a completely broken moral compass to oppose capital punishment for any crime, be their guilt ever so obvious.

Or are you okay with killing innocent people because you think they probably did it? If that's the case, put a gun to your head, and paint the wall with what passes for your brains, because I sure as hell don't want you living in the same society I do.

"How much would it cost to give all citizens grants to help them? A lot..... Way lot. "

Do you have any fucking clue how unimaginably vast the US budget is? Have you even the faintest, foggiest notion of how much of that is spent on one and only one thing? Has it ever entered your mind that maybe, just maybe, the Pentagon could take a 10% hit per year- not even the hit many of us take on our health insurance premiums when they inevitably rise yet again- and we could go a long, long way to sending every adult to college who wanted to go?

Have you any conception of the enormous vastness of this country's wealth, or how small in relative terms a guaranteed college education as every American citizen's birthright actually costs, by comparison?

Can you explain to anyone without sounding like a completely heartless prick douche scumbag why you don't want that for yourself and your own children?

"I don't get it.... At all."

Wrong.

You refuse to try to understand the truth and its supporting evidence, even when that truth bites you in the dick.