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freakishlystrong's avatar

I know Massholes who call Mass. "Taxachusettes." Indeed, but, they do wise and thoughtful things with that money, instead of just handing it to rich fuckwads.

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Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

As a society, we made a decision not too many decades ago that no matter how bad off we are, somebody has to be worse off. Convicts were a natural choice given the threads of Puritanism that run still through American thought.

Ruining lives is the price we’re fine with other people paying so we can be sure that at least we’re better than Those People.

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