Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything.

In four out of five states, if you go to prison, you are literally paying for the time you spend there.

As you can guess, this results in crippling debt as soon as you’re released.

The county gets back a fraction of what they hold over your head the rest of your life until you commit suicide(or die naturally and peacefully with the sword of damocles hanging over your head).

$20-$80 a day according to Rutgers.

Counties apparently sue people and employ wage garnishment to get back the money that majority of people obviously cannot pay back.

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/states-unfairly-burdening-incarcerated-people-pay-stay-fees

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    I vote third party.

    Choosing between a giant douche and a turd sandwich isn’t very appealing to me.

    Also, people like you pretending you didn’t need the votes of people like me is how we got Trump in the first place.

    • @fukurthumz420
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      sure. hold humanity hostage because you can’t get exactly what you want, traitor. i’m not going to kiss your ass to vote for practical results. if you’re too blind to see what you’re doing, you can live with the consequences. i have a feeling you have a lot more time left on this planet than i do, junior.

      • @Tattorack
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        Jesus Christ, you’re calling another person a traitor over… this. XD

        You Americans are like a bad parody. What a terrible farce this is.

        • @MalachaiConstant
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          In a two party system, voting third party will only ever result in your vote being thrown out. It is taking a stand against reality for the sake of your own personal idealism.

          A lot of left-aligned voters learned that lesson the hard way in 2016. If you didn’t learn the lesson, you either weren’t paying attention or your idealism is more important to you than the actual outcome of the vote.

          Doing that willingly, despite (or maybe because) the rest of your side screaming at you not to fuck this up again, is absolutely a level of betrayal.

          • @Tattorack
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            217 days ago

            Yeah, this whole explanation is just you saying “Our country is broken and I don’t want to fix it”.

            • @MalachaiConstant
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              017 days ago

              More like “you think you’re helping but you are not”

          • @KrapKake
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            117 days ago

            Yea OK, just keep voting for same parties over and over again. Let’s just maintain the shitty status quo where nothing really gets better regardless of who is in office!

            • @MalachaiConstant
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              117 days ago

              So your solution is to vote in protest for a party you know won’t win.

              I’m actually curious now, what possible good do you think that’s doing?

    • @[email protected]
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      118 days ago

      Blah blah blah same propaganda, same lies. Even a fool could say you’re trying to get Trump elected.