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   🐙 Compañero Allende 🇵🇸 (morpheo@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 23:49:24 JST 🐙 Compañero Allende 🇵🇸

   From @/rosypriani #instagram:

   Stop calling Gaza an "open air prison."

   Prisons are filled with convicted criminals.
   Prisons have food.
   Prisons have water.
   Prisons have electricity.
   Prisons have medical treatment.

   Gaza is not a prison; it is a concentration camp.

   https://www.instagram.com/p/CzjqLi1OOvN/

   #StopTheGenocide #FightTheGenocide #Gaza #Palestine #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #BDS #BoycottIsrael

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 23:49:20 JST gnutelephony

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     • weilawei

     @weilawei @morpheo given that many are privately run and sell forced prison labor, the US prison system could easily adopt the slogan "work sets you free"...

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     weilawei (weilawei@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 23:49:22 JST weilawei

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     @morpheo If you wanted to make a good point, you should call our prisons concentration camps instead of prisons.

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     🐙 Compañero Allende 🇵🇸 (morpheo@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 23:49:23 JST 🐙 Compañero Allende 🇵🇸

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     • weilawei

     @weilawei First of all: I speak from a Swedish perspective. Prisons are, of course, an abomination, however one chooses to put it. And I'm sure US prisons (much like Chilean) are a nightmare.

     But the comparison of Gaza to a prison is by definition wrong.

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     weilawei (weilawei@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 23:49:23 JST weilawei

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     @morpheo In the US 98% (Yes, NINETY EIGHT PERCENT) of cases at the federal level are plead out as guilty because of overcharging and systemic pressures.

     98% of people in prison at the federal level never got convicted by a jury trial of any kind, let alone their peers.

     As for your idea of what a prison is, we have a substantial chunk of the world's prisoners in total--so what a prison is here very much matters for comparison.

     98% are potentially innocent and deprived of their freedom.

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     weilawei (weilawei@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 23:49:24 JST weilawei

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     @morpheo You'd think prisons were great and not morally fucked up from the way you put it.

     Fact is, in the US, prisons are just how we do slavery now. See the 13th Amendment, passed as a concession to the slave states of the South, and ratified in December of the year the Civil War ended.

     #AbolishAllPrisons