On 7/4/2025 at 12:09 AM, swansont said:

That a tiny margin elected a felon speaks to mindset of the voters rather than the candidate.

..or the ungluing from reality (misunderstanding of the reality in which they live) of the Democrats..

If they do not start to learn from their own mistakes then more failures are in store..

Edited July 5, 2025Jul 5 by Sensei

You can't trust a justice system run like a private industry. We have so many conflicts of interest that it's just open corruption. Money has so much influence where it shouldn't have any.

China has four times our population but the US still has more prisoners in prisons than China. The real evidence shows we aren't more criminally minded than other countries, we're just so numb to extremist capitalism that we let our wealthy prey on us.

5 minutes ago, Phi for All said:

You can't trust a justice system run like a private industry. We have so many conflicts of interest that it's just open corruption. Money has so much influence where it shouldn't have any.

After all, the entire legal system is something of a joke. A convict is ordered to pay the costs of a trial he lost. Each judge of the court, lawyers, jury judges, etc. etc. this is all paid for by the convicted.

If you have a case like government vs. private individual and the government loses, the government pays (i.e. from our taxes). If the private person loses, it seizes his/her assets. There is no justice here. And there is no place for justice.

9 minutes ago, Phi for All said:

China has four times our population but the US still has more prisoners in prisons than China. The real evidence shows we aren't more criminally minded than other countries, we're just so numb to extremist capitalism that we let our wealthy prey on us.

Someone goes to jail. They take away his/her freedom. And on top of that he/she has to pay for the cost of the trial and a fine. So if he/she had anything it is auctioned off and seized. After getting out of prison then you have a homeless person who can't find a job and becomes a full-time criminal already.

The creation of private prisons, which make money by having inmates, is a cosmic pathology. Right. And they are listed on the stock market from what I remember.

The more people commit crimes, the more these “companies” earn, and the more dividends their shareholders will get.

Edited July 5, 2025Jul 5 by Sensei

3 hours ago, Sensei said:

The more people commit crimes...

Please be careful. The legal system in the US wants you to automatically think of these people as criminals, but many are only so because laws were created to trap them, or they weren't well represented during their time in court, or....