• whereitsat@lemmy.zip
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    29 days ago

    leftists always take the wrong stance on shit like this.

    don’t get me wrong, i think everyone should have access to clean water.

    but, it’s a trope of american culture to call people whiny, entitled pieces of shit–usually the most vulnerable members of society.

    throw it back at them.

    my take on his situation is this: “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”

    he’s some alpha male, huh. i drank dirty water for years growing up in detroit. grow a pair, bro.

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      29 days ago

      I felt that way ten years ago. Now I agree with you.

      If we stand up for them they get out and a cush life while they jail and do the same to our people.

      Fuck him. He can rot in the jails he wanted for everyone else.

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        29 days ago

        I don’t want to stand up for him, I want to stand up for prisoners as a whole. It’s ok that his conditions improve if everyone elses do too, just like a bunch of other vile pieces of shit would have better conditions. And no one remotely on the left is going to rally behind him specifically.

        But it does mean that him crying about it changes nothing because my stance has been the same before.

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        29 days ago

        We always want to afford people the services they want to deny to others.

        It’s a weakness for the best reason, but the damned POS feed on it use it.

        If they would deny water and food to people as a basic right, they don’t deserve it either.

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      29 days ago

      As a leftist, agreed. 💪 I understand they don’t want hate in their heart and I can’t blame em but since I already do might as well put it to good use.