Montana Gov. Bullock extends private prison company's contract

[Antonio the Sixth]

He probably renewed the contract because the area had a relative lack of well-paying jobs. Prisons prop up the rural economy.

So did slavery and coal mining.

Private prisons are wrong for many of the reasons FuzzyBear rightfully cites, but it's ludicrous to compare them to slavery.

What makes the comparison ludicrous?

Private prisons literally force their inmates to work whether they want to or not. That's the textbook definition of slavery.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

He probably renewed the contract because the area had a relative lack of well-paying jobs. Prisons prop up the rural economy.

So did slavery and coal mining.

Private prisons are wrong for many of the reasons FuzzyBear rightfully cites, but it's ludicrous to compare them to slavery.

What makes the comparison ludicrous?

People who end up in prison have been dealt their fate via the legal system. Enslaved blacks in the South didn't have a choice - regardless of whatever they had done, they were stuck as slaves, unless they tried to escape. No one is plopped in a private prison as a newborn.
The comparison is moronic and diminutizes slavery as it existed in the antebellum South.
The sheer silliness of this only distracts from the real problems that exist in private prisons.

[Rookie Yinzer]

This is disappointing. This suggests that he is either not running at all for the nomination in 2020 or he blatantly doesn't understand what direction the party is going. The latter part is especially frustrating since he's been great on campaign finance and net neutrality.

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This is disappointing. This suggests that he is either not running at all for the nomination in 2020 or he blatantly doesn't understand what direction the party is going. The latter part is especially frustrating since he's been great on campaign finance and net neutrality.

He's only great on campaign finance if you assume that he had nothing to do with the Montana Democratic party being one of the parties laundering money for Hillary in the primary so that she could circumvent campaign finance laws and have $350k per donor go to her campaign.

[Antonio the Sixth]

He probably renewed the contract because the area had a relative lack of well-paying jobs. Prisons prop up the rural economy.

So did slavery and coal mining.

Private prisons are wrong for many of the reasons FuzzyBear rightfully cites, but it's ludicrous to compare them to slavery.

What makes the comparison ludicrous?

People who end up in prison have been dealt their fate via the legal system. Enslaved blacks in the South didn't have a choice - regardless of whatever they had done, they were stuck as slaves, unless they tried to escape. No one is plopped in a private prison as a newborn.
The comparison is moronic and diminutizes slavery as it existed in the antebellum South.
The sheer silliness of this only distracts from the real problems that exist in private prisons.

Slavery, like murder, doesn't because less bad because the victims were convicted of a crime.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

He probably renewed the contract because the area had a relative lack of well-paying jobs. Prisons prop up the rural economy.

So did slavery and coal mining.

Private prisons are wrong for many of the reasons FuzzyBear rightfully cites, but it's ludicrous to compare them to slavery.

What makes the comparison ludicrous?

People who end up in prison have been dealt their fate via the legal system. Enslaved blacks in the South didn't have a choice - regardless of whatever they had done, they were stuck as slaves, unless they tried to escape. No one is plopped in a private prison as a newborn.
The comparison is moronic and diminutizes slavery as it existed in the antebellum South.
The sheer silliness of this only distracts from the real problems that exist in private prisons.

Slavery, like murder, doesn't because less bad because the victims were convicted of a crime.

The vast majority of people who end up in private prisons are there because they did something wrong and got punished in the court of law.

[Antonio the Sixth]

He probably renewed the contract because the area had a relative lack of well-paying jobs. Prisons prop up the rural economy.

So did slavery and coal mining.

Private prisons are wrong for many of the reasons FuzzyBear rightfully cites, but it's ludicrous to compare them to slavery.

What makes the comparison ludicrous?

People who end up in prison have been dealt their fate via the legal system. Enslaved blacks in the South didn't have a choice - regardless of whatever they had done, they were stuck as slaves, unless they tried to escape. No one is plopped in a private prison as a newborn.
The comparison is moronic and diminutizes slavery as it existed in the antebellum South.
The sheer silliness of this only distracts from the real problems that exist in private prisons.

Slavery, like murder, doesn't because less bad because the victims were convicted of a crime.

The vast majority of people who end up in private prisons are there because they did something wrong and got punished in the court of law.

Did you actually read a single word of what I said?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

He probably renewed the contract because the area had a relative lack of well-paying jobs. Prisons prop up the rural economy.

So did slavery and coal mining.

Private prisons are wrong for many of the reasons FuzzyBear rightfully cites, but it's ludicrous to compare them to slavery.

What makes the comparison ludicrous?

People who end up in prison have been dealt their fate via the legal system. Enslaved blacks in the South didn't have a choice - regardless of whatever they had done, they were stuck as slaves, unless they tried to escape. No one is plopped in a private prison as a newborn.
The comparison is moronic and diminutizes slavery as it existed in the antebellum South.
The sheer silliness of this only distracts from the real problems that exist in private prisons.

Slavery, like murder, doesn't because less bad because the victims were convicted of a crime.

The vast majority of people who end up in private prisons are there because they did something wrong and got punished in the court of law.

Did you actually read a single word of what I said?

Yes I did and in some cases it is borderline slavery. But not in a general sense.