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[npars01@mstdn.social]

@nogodsnomasters

Disproportionate criminal sentencing is a hallmark of plutocracy & oligarchy.
https://horsepowermuseum.co.uk/duel-on-the-wimbledon-common/

After the Enclosure Acts, starving farm villagers were hung or transported for poaching rabbits or deer
https://www.hope.ac.uk/news/allnews/new-research-into-victorian-capital-punishment-revealed.html

https://museumcrush.org/the-dark-history-of-poaching-in-suffolk/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

The rich are very keen on famines that preserve their ill-gotten wealth too.
https://www.ighm.org/learn.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-churchill-policies-contributed-to-1943-bengal-famine-study

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

[space_burger_steve@mstdn.ca]

@madness832 @nogodsnomasters In a country that allows forced labour for prisoners, and for profit prisons. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or if this is going to turn into "but the slaves were well cared for!"

[netzblockierer@tech.lgbt]

@nogodsnomasters the former is too much leniency.

The latter one is cruel and unusual punishment.

[space_burger_steve@mstdn.ca]

@doctormo @stuartb @SeanPLynch @nogodsnomasters Did you know that the USA allows forced, unpaid labour for prisoners, and that for profit prisons make money selling prison labour like to-order slavery? I didn't know for a long time.

[space_burger_steve@mstdn.ca]

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @stuartb @SeanPLynch @nogodsnomasters I can't read the snopes article, because snopes doesn't know the difference between a tracking blocker and an ad blocker.

I can read this article from Cornell though, and it does more to verify than invalidate this story.

https://publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/jlpp/2011/11/17/a-tale-of-two-criminals/

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@nogodsnomasters

In the Tales From the Crypt version of this, the homeless guy cuts the other guy's face off and gets early release.

[bluesandcoffee@mastodon.social]

@nogodsnomasters @trendytoots
"Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king..."

Bob Dylan, 1983

[kittenkoder@mastodon.social]

@nogodsnomasters

This is what capitalism will always do, and why we must remove the capitalists from power and never allow them power again.

[toriver@mas.to]

@nogodsnomasters I have heard stories of elderly people in the US robbing banks for small sums just to go to prison for the provided healthcare, though that says more about the healthcare system.

[nakal@mastodon.social]

@SeanPLynch @stuartb @nogodsnomasters I'd prefer that the other guy gets his 3.5 seconds sentence.

[millerjanet12@mastodon.social]

@toriver @nogodsnomasters hi

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@nogodsnomasters white collar vs violent crime. He robbed a bank at, what seemed to the teller as, gunpoint. That he only took $100 is inconsequential.

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@grayladywriter one of them robbed a bank at "gunpoint" (he mimicked having a weapon)

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @stuartb @SeanPLynch @nogodsnomasters Yes, the homeless guy robbed a bank which probably caused trauma and emotional stress for the people involved. Was it more than $3 billion worth of stress? If not then it should have been less than the white collar criminal's sentence. Or the white collar criminal's sentence should have been increased to 15 years.

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@toriver @nogodsnomasters I'm honestly surprised that they don't charge for prison so that you end up indebted after you get out. Seems like a natural progression for capitalism.

[brouhaha@mastodon.social]

@nogodsnomasters
The CEO didn't steal enough! If he's stolen $100B, he might not have gotten sentenced to any time at all.

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@felipeB @nogodsnomasters And not wearing a suit while doing it and not stealing $3 billion more.