re: #69 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

One of the more annoying tactics the people who defend Greenwald’s “brutal prison state” comment use is to impugn your morality and intelligence by implying you don’t know how bad the US prison system is.

Yes, I know how bad the US fucking prison system is, and I know it’s out of control, as Obdi says, largely because of the bullshit war on drugs.

But try to tell me this means the US is a BRUTAL PRISON STATE, and I don’t even. I recognize Greenwald’s comment for fringe far left/right libertarian bullshit precisely because I AM aware of how bad it is, but also because I’m aware of how bad it is elsewhere, and how bad it’s gotten in history.