General Politics Discussion [ARCHIVED] • Page 307

I was actually just talking to someone today about how people are so ignorant about just how bad the conditions are in our prisons. Nothing radicalized my politics more in terms of criminal justice than visiting San Quentin, seeing the cells/conditions, and talking one on one with the inmates there. I don't know if there is a wage standard in prisons nationwide, but at San Quentin I remember them telling me they make less than a dollar an hour for work and they showed me a sheet with the prices of the items they are allowed to buy, and like she mentioned in the tweets, it's incredibly difficult to buy things we would consider necessities on said wage.

 

given how overwhelmingly Latinos poll against Trump, i'm surprised it's not a larger gap. but it's big all the same

 

I don't even think Trump wants to win anymore. The things he says just keep getting crazier everyday. He's loving the publicity and personally, I feel like he keeps saying these crazy things to see how many people will still support him after it. I do think that he does mean the things he said and if he did somehow win he would try and get them implemented. But, I really don't think he will care if Hillary becomes president. He will still be rich, living his luxurious life and that is all that matters to him. A Clinton presidency wouldn't matter to him and as he said before if he loses, "it's OK...I go back to a very good way of life".

 

He just wants to team up with Hannity for a TV show.

 

The only people who should comment on women wearing a hijab should be women who wear a hijab. That's a line from a sister at my mosque.

 

But what about white dudes on Twitter? They have free speech and stuff.

(I am 100% joking BTW.)

 

I'm starting to believe the conspiracy theories that he was paid off to lose this election. This is not the strategy one takes to win an election. It's like if all Hillary did was bring up Benghazi and say she was right.

 

It'd be foolish given how hard it would be logistically because of the fractured nature of his Republican support (and, converse

What an insult to Hugo Chavez. Chavez actually wanted to improve the lives of his people, but was ignorant with regard to his economic policies and his overreliance on the oil boom.

 

That tweet won't show

 

He deleted it. Basically Trump RT'ing a super racist account.

 

That's the most unsurprising thing I've heard this evening.

 

Yes. Based on what we know do you believe that the FBI was impartial? That Clinton was treated the same as anyone else who had done what she has done would have been treated?

 

Are we presuming that the fbi is *usually* impartial because uhhhhhhb

 

No?

 

Well if we know they're not usually impartial why does it matter if they weren't impartial for Clinton?

 

Because we were discussing Clinton specifically?

 

Yes but the implications of your posts were that clinton received special treatment (due to a lack of impartiality) and anyone else who did the same thing would have had a different outcome...there's no point in going down that road if you accept that it has rarely if ever been impartial towards anyone

 

I would say that this statement is impossible to qualify.

 

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I am aware of that. I honestly can't tell if we disagree here or not haha.