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Got a problem? Just make it illegal! Bam! Solved!
Next up: Not finding a job is going to become illegal, thus solving unemployment issues!
Right wing terrorism!... Wait...
—Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government
Prohibition anyone?
They did that already...they tied healthcare to being employed.
Conservatives can't understand why we did away with debtors prison.
They’ll start to notice when there’s a downturn in their stock earnings due to imprisoning everyone. They have to feel it personally before they take issue with such problems. They don’t have a very far attention span.
Oh no the stock market will do just fine when we create different tiers of ~~work camp~~ prison with different suppliers. There'll just be less variety in stocks.
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
They'll have just invested in the newly expanded private prison system then.
Things gonna be a money maker, all that free labor...and if you refuse to work they tack on YEARS extra.
Man that's gonna make for some spicy prison riots.
I hate to say this but they're going to find out the hard way that most of the homeless veterans are that way by choice and they remember how to fight in an organized manner. Our very own hometown militarized gangs! Yay!
We all knew that was part of the endgame, c'mon now. This will probably only surprise them, since, y'know, they don't know anyone who's ever served before.
Gun control in a nutshell.
I’ll take false equivalency for 500, Alex!
How is it a false equivalent?
Because gun control is a solution to another problem. The problem isn't that guns exist, but that people die because guns are too prevalent. My original comment explicitly made fun of "just make the systemic problem illegal", somthe real equivalency would be "too many shootings, so make killing illegal and call the problem solved". You falsely adopted this to express your disbelief that a proposed measure to curb gun violence is effective which is not the same but was described as the same by you.
Just make crime illegal.
But that would make 3/4 of all politicians just disappear. Huh... come to think of it, we should do it!
I think your number is a little low.