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agmoore in CineTV • 6 months ago

I don't know about those potato chips 😁...but the movie was great. It's a good way to inform people about the civil forfeiture scam. Most people wouldn't believe this is true, but it happens all over the country. Irrelevant, until it happens to you. Just like prison. Who cares what the conditions in prisons are? Who cares medical care is dreadful? Who cares you are subject to random violence? Who cares you have to work, and not get paid? That is, who cares, until it happens to you.

It's funny. We run around in this country and pretend these things don't happen, and yet there it is, looming for all of us (or our loved ones) if we misstep. Or if we are suspected of making a misstep. Then we fall down a dark tunnel. Once we're in there, nobody cares.

6 months ago in CineTV by agmoore

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riverflows 6 months ago (edited)

Jesus. America!

Edit. Just watched it. I mean, thank God for America - it strikes me that it has supplied me with a lot of entertaining corrupt cop dramas.

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agmoore 6 months ago

It's refreshing that the entertainment industry takes on controversial issues such as this and offers them up for consideration. I'm old, middle class and white, so I'm probably pretty safe from being incarcerated. But you never know.

I was looking up prison rates in Australia. It turns out, Australia has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, when Indigenous people are separated out. Do the artists in your country explore this theme? As a whole Australia has a relatively low imprisonment rate, but when indigenous people are considered this shoots up dramatically. In NT, for example, First Nations People constitute 88% of those imprisoned, although they comprise only 26% of the population.

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riverflows 6 months ago

Oh man yes. It's absolutely an issue here. They are more likely to die in custody, have a parent in prison, be incarcerated for stealing a chocolate bar. It's very much in the news and there are efforts to address it. Poor housing, unemployment, intergenerational trauma leading to dysfunctional families, dispossession, education levels - this is why 'celebrating' Australia day is such an issue. Australia always sweeps it under the carpet. It's a complex issue that many people are trying to address.

My flippant 'America!' was not just because of this law in the film but also things we read over here about student and medical debt, war on drugs, obesity, gun crime, school shootings and a litany of other crazy things we don't have here. We are absolutely not without our own flaws though.... For eg, domestic violence.

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steemychicken1 6 months ago

US is at the same time the most progressive and most outdated country . Some things are just crazy

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