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davedan:
Well for profit prisons (and all private prisons) should be abolished.
dpareja:
--- Quote from: davedan on July 20, 2018, 12:53:24 am ---Well for profit prisons (and all private prisons) should be abolished.
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Well yes, but they're not saying that; they said "abolish prisons".
(I don't mind the notion of abolishing cash bail either, it's basically a way of keeping poor people in jail--likely costing them their jobs even if they're completely innocent and acquitted at trial--while letting rich people--and whatever middle-class people remain--go about their regular business.)
davedan:
I wouldn't read too much into how nuanced the opinion is by way of banner.
Skybison:
^I wonder if it would work to have a cash bail that adjusts based on the individuals level of wealth, like how we don't ask rich and poor people to pay the same amount of taxes.
Lana Reverse:
--- Quote from: dpareja on July 20, 2018, 12:07:16 am ---
--- Quote from: Lana Reverse on July 19, 2018, 09:46:58 pm ---A bit of stupidity from the New York City DSA:
https://twitter.com/nycDSA/status/1012808259818926080
These people are supposed to be democratic socialists, right? Because this sounds like something anarcho-communists would advocate.
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There's social democrats and democratic socialists--the main difference being that the latter are post-capitalist and the former are not--and unfortunately the two terms are becoming conflated in the US. (It didn't help that Sanders called himself a democratic socialist when his policies are clearly social democratic.) Whoever posted that is on the post-capitalist side, at least.
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Thanks for clarifying the difference, but this seems radical even by post-capitalist standards.
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