What does it say about a society that has no problem spending money to keep people in prison, but has the deepest ambivalence about sending them to college?

May 31, 2022 · 3:42 PM UTC

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America hates helping its youth in any substantial way
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There's ever been a generation of Americans that so systematically thwarts the dreams of its young.
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You want to subsidize high earners at the expense of the working class? Sick.
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It says a lot!
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The first part is a feature not a bug: dangerous people don't get to live among us. The second part...deep ambivalence? Hardly.
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Who doesn't have an issue with that cost? We should go back to the previous penalty for felonies (although what is considered a felony will need to also be tweaked).
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It says “every civilized society can agree that certain acts should be outlawed and punished but not everyone is equally on the same page when it comes to paying 100k for someones queer studies degree”
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From Yale to Jail - suggested epitaph for an empire disintegrating.
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Please run for President @marwilliamson
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I like that one Marrianne Williamson book best where she connects A Course In Miracles to the counterculture resistance movement of the 1960s, and critiques the current establishment. New agers usually kiss 💋 ass of big money, big power. She not bad.
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