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TIL about V-Coding the systemic rape of trans women in US prisons to try to “calm” violent men. (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but the US did it at a scale an order of magnitude greater. We have more prisoners than most of the world combined.

[–] quill7513@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 week ago

absolutely. the extractive capitalist imperial project found safe haven in our governments hall's (more arguably, founded and defined our government since the origins of the US are an alliance of Virginia's purely capitalist project and Massachusetts' purely theocratic project)