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Liked The Caretaker (@The_Caretaker@cr8r.gg)
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I was a jailer for two years. Not proud of it, I needed the money. One of the repeat offenders we had was an old man who was HIV positive. He went to jail several times while I was working there and always for the same thing. He would shoplift items from a store while in full view of a cop. This old man had a cane and could barely walk. There was no way he expected to get away with it. After he was arrested we had to process him and the medical questions always led back to his HIV diagnosis. The state provided him with his HIV medication while he was awaiting trial where he always pleaded guilty. He was always released after serving less than 60 days pretrial. Upon release, he was given six months worth of his HIV medications (which he needed to survive) and he would shoplift again when he ran out of medication. It would have been cheaper for the state to just give him the medications without him needing to be part of the criminal justice system first. He was shoplifting so he could stay alive. #Healthcare #luigimangione #denydefenddepose #Anticapitalism #EatTheRich

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #politics #capitalism.

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Reposted Alberto Cottica (@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green)
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Dear fellow Europeans, I am respectfully asking you to consider signing this European Citizen Initiative to institute a billionaire tax. It was invented by leading French economist Thomas Piketty; I read the whole thing, and it is technically excellent. Hit me if you have questions, but please sign it, it is important. https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/ It needs 1 million signatures (currently 300K) and seven countries over their threshold (currently three: Denmark, France, Germany). #economics #tax

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #ethics #politics #capitalism.

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Reposted Fifi Lamoura (@fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe)
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It's interesting that people keep talking about the Trump incident as a "shocking act" when it really wasn't shocking at all if you've been paying attention to American gun violence and the Republicans' constant calls for political violence and death threats against Democratic politicians and journalists (though these are mainly targeting female, Black and queer journalists and a lot of the targets are women in politics, so maybe straight White male journalists aren't being subjected to nearly as much of this and just don't believe their colleagues). I wish one journalist would just honestly say 'in a not unexpected act of political violence in our landscape of constant gun violence" or something that acknowledged reality. This kind of gun violence is now terribly mundane in the US and Trump and the GOP helped make it mundane.

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #politics.

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Liked Mallory :v_trans: :v_lesbian: (@malcircuit@thingy.social)
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I'm anti-war because the more I learn about history, the more it's clear that wars have a legacy that extends for decades or centuries beyond when they officially end. And I don't mean only the lives lost. The propaganda drives people insane and clouds their vision for decades. All of the things people "had" to do to "win" end up bringing about unintended and unanticipated consequences that never really disappear from society. The madness incites more madness.

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #politics.