TIL That the U.S. prison population is about 25 percent of the world's prisoners even though the country itself holds only 5 percent of the world's population.

Source for what, that the USA and Europe are simply not even remotely the same even though there are forces trying to push both over the same neo-liberal cliff? Source for the fact that where the US penal system may be a little to harsh on certain types of people, the European one is exponentially too lenient and usually the perpetrator is out of jail or any kind of punishment for their actions before their victim even has time to process the event? I'm guessing people took offense to being called domesticated dogs, because people jump to conclusions, but the point was more about being pacified, having been bred and morphed into something that is not natural, that suffers from diseases and ailments from mutation and distortion of their being coyotes or wolves don't have the same spinal issues that dachshund's have or the skin ailments that terriers are prone to. Similarly Europeans have been so pacified that they can't see when their culture is being assaulted and will be destroyed and true, real diversity, the kind that is interesting on the basis of uniqueness in a mutual respect for each other within natural boundaries is simply incomprehensible and unimaginable. How bad does it have to get to be able to see what it going on around one, let alone be able to project into the future? It's like someone racing towards a cliff and yet not being able to comprehend that it will result in their death. Do you think the Africans and Middle Easterners that are flooding into Europe will honor, let alone uphold European cultural and folk traditions? Even if they tried, it would simply be impossible because that is not who they are are and there is simply no way for them to become something they aren't. Many people will confuse that with some sort of supremacy or hatred, but the point they can't see is that I do respect other's cultures if they are not destructive and harmful to others, but they should be practiced in their own places and their own communities.

What people also don't quite get is that what we are seeing here is just the beginning of a neo-liberal agenda starting to grip or take hold, with a deliberate agenda to essentially homogenize all of humanity and muddle everyone and everything into a tough of humanity that the elite class can simply pick and choose and ramp up and own as needed without the rest of humanity really having any capacity to direct their fate and no identity to rally and organize around. I know this because I am part of that process and I participate in it because it is inevitable unless the general populace realizes what's happening to it, but that seems less and less likely with every single passing day. Believe what you want, I really don't care.

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