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  • No.

    The answer is no. I don’t care what the circumstances of the story are. He was the responsibility of the state, and the state failed, likely out of negligence. It’s that simple.

    The US treats prisons, by and large, like cages for wild animals. It’s hardly a surprise that the recidivism rate is what it is considering how convicted people are treated during and after incarceration here. I’m not saying all criminals are just good people wanting to be good in a bad system. There are certainly monsters out there, but I would argue most criminals are born out of circumstance rather than “bad wiring” or some sociopathy.
















  • The US may not have military parades in a traditional sense, but they absolutely have something similar: at just about any outdoor sporting event from the college level to pro, there’s some sort of military “thing.” Whether it be a fly-over, funded by the Pentagon, or a color guard there for the national anthem. Also, at NASCAR races, the Army either used to or still does sponsor a car. Those are the examples I can think of off the top of my head. It’s not. North Korea or USSR by any means, but it’s kind of always there.

    Edit: correcting some misspellings