30 Random Facts That Seem Too Hard To Believe, Yet Are Completely True, As Shared In This Twitter Thread

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Deep breaths, Dillon. Hang in there. You're doing a lot and no one is thanking you. Keep it up man. You'll make it through.

At least, you vote for your politicians, yes? But yeah, in pluctocracy, you don’t have many options for change something. But then, land of the free isn’t much free. People makes the country. Modern Americans created modern America. So you too 🤷🏼‍♂️

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someone is emotional 😑

Duke , you can go to Ukraine and help them.

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Then get out

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You have a choice, leave!

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Then leave.

So, the US isn't actually a police state, for imprisoning more people than anyone else, but instead a country whichs people just are more criminal, less self controling numbnuts? Got it.

Not that plain or simple. Some laws are designed to keep the US prisons full. They catch you up on nonsense tied to race, to gender, to religion, to social class. For Black people and other people of color its imbedded in the criminal justice system to target them constantly. Racial profiling or "I thought I saw" excuse. White people can do the same crime same severity and get little to no time. This has been proven multiple times. Also the huge stigma on homelessness, mental illness, sex work, and immigrantion makes it worse. Some Mexican homeless guy has gotten locked up in front of me while I waited for the bus. He was singing to himself on a corner and a white Karen calls the cops says some dramatic nonsense about him holding a weapon and waving around drugs, then plays the damsel and distress fear for my life act, thats all the cops needed. That singing homeless guy minding his business, singing to mentally contain himself is going to jail. No gun, no drugs were found. Even after I told them she was lying he was handcuffed and taken away. All because the Karen felt (her words) "I works 2 jobs and pays bills and taxes I shouldn't have to put up with a homeless person making noise, screaming, making me feel unsafe, he needs to speak English". He was mentally ill minding his own business. He sang amazing grace in Spanish and got locked up. Damn this country.

It's not just an issue of people breaking the law but also an issue of what kind of punishment you get for breaking different laws. Many such punishments include imprisonments where they would only be fines in other countries. There is also the issue of how released convicts are treated in society and through that the chance of repeat offenders.

So it’s okay for a police state to racially discriminate against people and use the judiciary as an instrument of taking away people’s rights because of the color of their skin? Minor crimes are punished like murder and real, actual murderers and rapists get away with a slap on the wrist? Fix your frigging punitive system, then we’ll have a talk about “breaking the law”.

“ The United States criminal justice system is the largest in the world. At yearend 2015, over 6.7 million individuals1) were under some form of correctional control in the United States, including 2.2 million incarcerated in federal, state, or local prisons and jails.2) The U.S. is a world leader in its rate of incarceration, dwarfing the rate of nearly every other nation.3) Such broad statistics mask the racial disparity that pervades the U.S. criminal justice system, and for African Americans in particular. African Americans are more likely than white Americans to be arrested; once arrested, they are more likely to be convicted; and once convicted, and they are more likely to experience lengthy prison sentences. African-American adults are 5.9 times as likely to be incarcerated than whites and Hispanics are 3.1 times as likely.4)”

Everyone does break the law to some degree. There are plenty of times I could have been arrested, but I'm white. People of color are significantly overrepresented in the American prison population.

Rosa Parks broke the law