Or are innocent, or have yet to even see any trial, so have no conviction (a disturbingly high percentage of people in jails and prisons fit those categories).
I love sharing this link because a lot of this information is little-known, and also the design is elegant: Incarceration in Real Numbers. Be warned, it will suck more of your time than you’ll realise.
Regardless, nobody should have to drown in a place specifically designed to prevent escape. That’s barbaric.
Since there’s not enough time left for him to recover from this brutal ego bruise, I predict he’ll only do rallies from now on, or appearances on far-right media, because he’ll retreat to his snowglobe for reassurance for a while. He’ll avoid addressing Kamala directly, but he’ll ramp up his own network and rile up his mob. His team will struggle to rein him in, and some appearances might be cancelled.
He’s been more restrained at his rallies than I expected (he’s unhinged, sure, but only mildly more so). It may take him years – if at all – to recover from being so thoroughly bodied by a minority woman.
Men, definitely.. They do cancer screening, and men tend to be squeamish about prostrate exams (& I don’t blame them; I feel someone should pay me for my mammograms, not the other way round)), and ‘free’ & ‘anonymous’ removes a couple of hurdles.
e: ‘definitely’, not ‘too’. Weed kicked in as I started this comment. Sorry.
A federal law, the Hyde Amendment [1977], is already in place to block federal funding from going to abortion services and PPWP is audited annually to verify our compliance.
So this is even more performative and vindictive than it seemed at first glance. Thanks for pointing that out!
In addition, Planned Parenthood isn’t just an abortion clinic. It’s much more, providing crucial anonymous and free healthcare to the communities it serves.
Planned Parenthood served 2.4 million people last year and provided 328,348 abortions, according to its annual report. That works out to 13.7 percent of patients.
eta: that leaves nearly 90% of their patients seeking non-abortive care. I don’t know if it’s the same today, but in my day, they were the major non-school, community sex-Ed advocacy group.
The remainder received services including cancer screenings, sexually transmitted infection testing and contraception. Nationally, STI testing and contraception were a part of more than 7 million visits. […] Nationally, Planned Parenthood provided 9,419 “prenatal services" and 2,889 adoption referrals in 2016.
In many places, they’re amongst the only free, anonymous providers of reproductive healthcare that young people can turn to for preventative education and care, pregnancy wellness, family planning, and yes, abortion.
It’s disheartening they’re under attack again. In 2024.
e: inclusivity: they provide men’s reproductive services, too! Thanks @Nougat & @FuglyDuck!
In a perfect world, where the president was chosen by the popular vote, yes, you’d be right. Going by pure mathematics, everything you said is true.
Unfortunately we have the electoral college, and in key places, the margins are so thin that only a handful of voters being swayed to vote for Stein can make all the difference. We saw this in 2016, where the popular vote went to Hillary but she lost, and the margins in key areas was less than what Stein won in those areas.
This is why she’s being pushed so hard. It has worked before.
I get that people are disillusioned by the clusterfuck that FPTP voting has created, which is why I’ve been pushing so hard for people to fight that, rather than protest-voting, which is objectively worse.
Who’s annoyed, lol? Do you think I haven’t noticed you downvote my every comment within seconds, but I haven’t downvoted you once? Are you aware some instances let you see who downvotes what? XD
So why did you come back here, where people are rational?
Again, if you truly believe that 3rd parties need a place at the table (and for the record, I truly believe they do), you should be pushing people to support FairVote Action, not Jill Stein.
Considering your nearly inhuman posting frequency, you could be an effective agent for actual change. So why are you wasting your time doing this instead of using your considerable free time to actually make a difference?
Why aren’t you posting all the Harris articles if you don’t care? Or just cat memes? Nobody is buying your ‘just asking questions’ shtick. This is why you were banned for sea-lioning.
I don’t believe you’re as old as you say. You act like a 23 year-old libertarian who’s just learning philosophy, with a rudimentary understanding and just enough edge to cut cheese. The more you talk, the less serious you sound.
I really hope you’re in your early 20s, because otherwise this is embarrassing.
So you’re not voting for Harris, or trump, or Stein – why are your posts almost exclusively pro-Stein?
Did you even look at my links? How can you be my age and so completely blind to the political landscape?
Which issues are you stuck on, to the point you’re this coy and uninformed enough to be advocating for a spoiler in favour of a documented autocrat? I’m seriously at a loss.
You constantly making posts and comments pushing for, again, a clear Russian plant whose entire purpose is to prop up a candidate who has already committed treason twice and who has openly admitted he will end democracy is not benign. Your contributions have, so far, not contributed to healthy discourse, but have been pretty obviously made with the intention to promote division.
If that’s who you are, just own it. If it’s not, take a step back and examine your motives.
And – this one is crucial – how to productively redirect your efforts, if you’re in fact sincere: FairVote Action, an actual grass-roots org working to get rid of the FPTP system to make democracy actually fair.
If you take nothing else from my comments, at least look at that last link. Your energy would be far better served there than what you’re doing now. Be the change you want to see.
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This is peak cat.