In a democracy, I don’t see how their vote really matters less. Plus it’ll help improve prisons perhaps.

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    It was Nelson Mandela:

    A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

    To be honest I was shocked when I learned about this stripping of rights when you are imprisoned in the US. It is literally a tool of tyranny to lock people up in order to silence them.

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      there are states that have government employees who engage with prisoners and get them back into a eligible voter status. sadly not all of the USA believes in Democracy.

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      And that’s precisely why I can’t own a gun! I got framed for some bullshit and compelled to plea guilty probably because I’m vocal enough to end up on someone’s list.

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      Woah so that’s where jkr stole that quote from always thought dumbledore had really good quotes and now i know jkr must’ve stolen most of em .

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        I don’t think there’s anything at all original in JKR works. Mashing a bunch of fantasy tropes together into an interesting world seems to have worked though. At least, the films are decent.

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          I like the books but yeah there definetly is massive issues that the movies fixed like harry breaking the fucking wand aside from that i’d say the books are on par if not better than the movies .