• aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    That does not qualify for the modifier worse. It’s still bad. But it’s not yet getting worse.

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      8 months ago

      Cop City

      Journalist and protesters in the US killed or imprisoned by cops

      Corporations using prison labor

      More things are qualifying as jailable offenses such as people’s social status or medical conditions/events/etcetera or jobs

      Cops are increasingly more prone to protect corporate interests over the public’s (who wrote that story The Last Capitalist the one were one man owned the earth including oxygen and sold it with cops protecting him?)

      a president who back tracked on every campaign promise to address policing issues

      the next election is against two people want to continue doing all the above and more

      barely leave just for the grocery store anymore

      it is getting worse your next trip outside could involve a black bag over our heads

      fucking dystopian horror show like out there

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        8 months ago

        Yes policing in this country in general is getting worse. The school to prison pipeline using SROs to imprison children is abhorrent and you didn’t even mention it.

        However your initial argument is that weed convictions are getting worse. And there’s nothing to support that claim.

        What you are mentioning are general broad stroke ills that we have to, as Americans address by holding our leaders accountable, voting in local elections and uplifting marginalized intersectional voices to the national level.

        Shit is dire, but we have to be specific and precise in our criticism or we’ll be discounted outright.

        Leftists have to work so much harder to even be heard let alone change anything, and we cannot do that without precise irrefutable positions and easily understood and concise points.