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"Killing people is against the law, unless we do it."
They've always done it via capital punishment. They're just bringing death by slow torture back... and you can always get more slaves. There's still a drug war and there are still people of color.
Georgia kills lots of poor people in prison. Heat, bedbugs, getting stabbed. Many don’t even have formal charges filed or a bond set.
It’s a red state, so nothing’s going to be done about it, except maybe move some toadies around.
I live in Georgia, can confirm. Don't go anywhere near the rural parts of this hellhole, especially if you're black or have some sort of other trait which southerners & conservatives discriminate against. Don't even think about taking weed with you in a car outside of Atlanta or Savannah. If you get arrested here, you're not going to be able to leave any time soon. And there's no laws which require compensating the wrongfully incarcerated or convicted.
If Georgia were a county, it would have the 4th highest incarceration rate in the world. Higher than El Salvador and Rwanda. The only ones that beat it are other US states (Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma).
I would also avoid Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. Not only because you might be wrongfully thrown in jail or prison, or get shot or something, but because those are just terrible places to exist in to begin with. At least Georgia has a decent amount of blue in it. Although our whitest counties bestowed upon the world Marjorie Taylor Greene and the guy who voted against making lynching a federal hate crime, so maybe it balances out. (this guy's political career has been CARTOONISHLY evil by the way, it's wild reading the Wikipedia article about him, I mean every red politician from Georgia is but it's still shocking actually reading what these people do)
Our prison system is simply a tool used by the elites of this country to propagate the enslavement of minorities.
And execution, in this case
Let's not forget cruel and unusual punishment.
Also to 'keep them in their place'
In Albany, Georgia on July 20th, 2023, the relative humidity at 94 F was 54%. As someone who's experienced dry heat vs humidity, I wanted to offer that context. Sweating just doesn't cool you down as the humidity rises.
I always heard the phrase "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" growing up when people complained about the heat. I thought it was annoying as hell to hear. I can feel the heat.
Then I lived in a place with dry heat. Holy fuck is it different. I can handle dry heat better. My electronics can't though.
Wouldn't the humidity be worse for electronics though? Why is the dry heat bad for them?
Dry air causes way more static electricity build up, which electronics really don't like having discharged into them
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
Honestly, I don't know why. I just know we had to replace our electronics more quickly than other places. Both my personal items and at my job.
I would assume what iMeddles said was correct. It makes sense to me.
The're right, another thing you notice in a dry house (like Swiss homes in winter pounding crazy heating) is that you can get even painful (to the hand) mini electric shocks just walking around with slippers/crocs and then touching the metal kitchen vent, chargers..unless you ground yourself once in a while. Never happens in a humid climate/house.
96°F = 35.6°C
I have a pet pig living in far better conditions.
I mean…. I think any pet is going to be treated FAR better than any inmate in the USA.
Those conditions would be illegal to put a pig in here.
So homicide then? Fuck this warden, should be behind bars.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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