This is the Pit, right? Okay, then I don’t feel bad telling you to take your fucking sanctimonious attitude and shove it up your ass. If you’ve got a problem with what’s being said, air it with specific references to what you disagree with. And keep your goddamned roll-eyes smiley about the US to yourself, too, while you’re at it.
I swore in the pit for the very first time! Do I get a cookie?
Is it a red rose the puppy holds in its teeth while dancing the tango?
Non sequitur?
Sure, with a turd on top. And go check your fuckin’ eyesight for invisible roll-eye smilies.
Scumbag.
Welcome to The Dope.
Harsh language, maybe?
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Your ignorance is showing. Maybe you can figure out how.
Cheers.
Nope, Einstein. It’s a fucking insult.
I’m sorry, I assumed you’d catch that I was referring to the metaphorical roll-eye that was your post. You know, no substance, just holier-than-thou?
I apparently overestimated you, here. I won’t do it again.
Maybe the OP could describe why this is worse than Abu Ghraib. Simply parroting the opening lines of the documentary?
Here’s a metaphorical roll-eye for you: you’re one load your Momma should have swallowed.
Thank goodness we have caring people in the world. As a fellow compassionate person I too worry about others. And I am concerned about how your country is turning into a complete shithole. I think we need the BBC to send a camera crew over there to do a special on it so as the world may know of the horrors being committed by some of your countrymen.
Why the fuck do you care about what happens here? Fuck off already. Are we to assume that there has never been a single case of abuse in one of your prisons?
But you’re the world’s policeman. Your concept of “justice” has world wide implications.
John,
Thought you might find this interesting vis-a-vis your incarceration rate versus 50 years ago (oh, and BTW, it’s 51 today 
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Not something I’d be proud of. YMMV of course.
If they wish.
:::shrug:::
Because my son is an American and lives there. Watching what I just did and reading what assholes such as yourself have to say about it, worries me about his future.
You might suggest to him to try what has worked for me during my life here: Don’t commit crimes and stay out of prison.
As you said earlier, it’s all “Me me me!”. I would like $20,000. Me. There’s a bank right up the road that has $20,000 in it. All I need to do is stop by any corner store, snag up a cheap gun, and I can have that $20,000. Sounds good. Well, until you get to the whole “going to prison” part. So how do I avoid prison? I don’t rob the bank.
Unfortunately, toiling away at my desk for The Man doesn’t give me much street cred. That’s a burden I have to bear for not having the balls to rob that bank.
I’m afraid I don’t follow. What we do when we police other nations, such as the fiasco that was Abu Ghraib, matters internationally, and we deserve to get flack for it. However, how we decide to manage our internal affairs is quite frankly none of anyone else’s business. I don’t see other nations modeling their prison system after some American paragon, and I don’t see how you can hold the US to a higher standard than you would your own nation’s criminal justice system.
Hey, hey! Personal insults lacking any sort of context. Is the issue that you’re not yet out of high school*, or that you just never matured?
*or whatever the equivalent in your little backwater fuckstick mudhole that you like call your nation
Nothing to brag about, of course. I thought you were talking about prison conditions, though, since that’s the topic of the thread. But the thing is, with as many faults as we do have as a nation (I’ll not deny that), there simply is no meaningful comparison of the US today vs 50 years that would lead the conclusion that things, in general, are worse. I mean, go back 50 years and we’re talking Jim Crow, women locked out of most professions, McCarthyism… even the beginnings of the Vietnam War.
So yeah, we’ve got plenty of problems. We put too many people in prison as part of our “war on drugs”, and we’re still invading countries for no good reason. I hope we’ve learned our lesson on that last issue, but I’m not optimistic…
or get caught with a little too much of the white stuff… 20% of those in federal prisons are serving sentences for drug related crimes. My guess is that it’s actually higher than that, and that some of the “violent crimes” are drug related, too. Link.
She was making what we in the States call a “joke.” See, 'cause the puppy’s in Spain it would do the tango . . . . A very innocuous joke, actually, involving as it did only the inference that they dance the tango in Spain (stereotypically, with rose in mouth).
Leaving aside whether it was the world’s funniest joke, it was in fact an attempt at humor. So it’s not really clear what you think she’s demonstrating ignorance of, unless it’s the fact that puppies don’t actually tango.
So unfortunately your humorlessness is showing. Maybe you can figure out how.