I’m an American so when we say “Europe” we assume it’s understood that I mean Western Europe. Lol

… which is ultimately for the better. This way I can die with a clear conscience.

i envy you and i wish i could say the same thing because i have to vote for biden or else we’ll regress backwards in addition to dying.

I get what you are saying, but we allready have a prison system focusing on rehabilitation, and it doesn’t phase the gangs.

you’ll never stop the gangs; but you can make it more difficult to operate if it becomes getting harder to find new gang members and less cost effective to retain the ones trapped in their sphere.

By increasing the length of prison sentences, we atleast keep them contained for longer.

that’s what i meant by viable alternatives to their situation; no matter how long you contain them they eventually have to return to their situation and all at great cost.

If you have any other suggestion, please go ahead and tell me.

aggressive outreach is a more effective tactic at combating gangs

he also has a front seat view to this country’s rightward shift and i wonder how frustrating it is to be so close to the levers of power to stop it; but to be blocked both your adversaries and your allies each time you try to reach for them.

i sometimes wonder if he wishes he had stayed more of a celebrity than a politician.

In my mind we need heavier punnishment, we need containment punnishments, way longer punnishments for those who are not interested in rehab which our justice system focuses on, after two times caught they need to get an automatic 10x the time normally given. If people are not interested in being part of a working society, then I’d rather they stay locked up.

we do that here; not only does it both not work well and allows people to profit from exacerbating it; it fixes a lot less and costs a lot more than treating it like a societal issue; changing policy; and aggressive outreach.

we’ve also had recidivism rates drop when convicts were given alternatives viable to their situation instead of focusing on the punishment.

But if you group the far right with the increasingly far right “conservatives”, it looks much more bleak.

we’ve been in that situation since the 1980’s; our center-right and our far right are our only choices for president now.

i used to think europe’s democracies were ahead since they carried on with progressive initiatives the americans stopped doing in the 1970’s, but now i wonder if europe’s lurch rightwards is them catching up to the americans.

after winning a simple majority

don’t listen to them; our systems beats theirs because you don’t even need a majority to win over here thanks to the electoral college and gerrymandering. lol

If they had run someone under the age of 40

cough

except they didn’t because they didn’t learn shit.

not only did they not; but the cock blocked a popular progressive candidate from running; twice.

i wish he was on drugs; maybe he would have done better.

I would vote for a wet sandwich before I vote for Trump, but Jesus Christ, it would be nice if the democrats fucking tried.

why should they? you’re going to give them what they want from you anyways in november and multiple novembers into the future; there’s literally no reason for them to ever bother.

the agitator will either tear the shoes apart or maim them.

you’d think it doesn’t need to be said because it’s obvious, but i speak from experience that it does need to be said: make sure you don’t put them into an agitation based washer; impeller or tumble washers ONLY!

(or atleast use a laundry bag if you have only have access to an agitation washer)

and air dry them IN THE SUN!!!

so too are a lot of gay men

that’s why he lost; that giant foreign nation spent millions to unseat him and it worked.

and he’s the only viable alternative to the conservatives over there.

my car is 16 years old and it’s american made so i’m certain that’s it’s going to fail catastrophically very soon, so i need a new car and i want one of these; but i’ll have to wait atleast another 5 years for the 100% tariffs to abate. even then, there’s a good chance that there’ll be new tariffs.

i’ve already canceled this summer road trip because of the precariousness of my car’s functioning and i’ll have the cancel the rest from now on and it’s maddening considering how much money people can throw away on car trip helping turn this turd of an economy around; but we won’t do it simply because someone other than the united states or its puppets are profiting from it.

and a reality in the united states

it’s also bullshit when you consider that the only thing i could steal is source code and; since everything we worked on was open source; i would have absolutely nothing to gain from it. lol