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I love John Oliver...but this made me cry (Original Post) Tsiyu Sep 2015 OP
Better Call Saul n/t Jeroen Sep 2015 #1
Who can I sue? Initech Sep 2015 #2
I need to start watching this show Tsiyu Sep 2015 #3
lol! n/t Jeroen Sep 2015 #5
K&R Solly Mack Sep 2015 #4
Thanks, Solly Tsiyu Sep 2015 #7
3 Cases per day - "That's Gerard Depardieu Wine Consumption Territory... smirkymonkey Sep 2015 #6
Oliver has a gift, eh? n/t Tsiyu Sep 2015 #8
And Wall St. walked away free. Hotler Sep 2015 #9
There's always a future Tsiyu Sep 2015 #10

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
3. I need to start watching this show
Mon Sep 14, 2015, 12:27 PM
Sep 2015

thanks for the chuckles, DU pals.


And thank you to the beloved John Oliver for doing these shows. You're one of the few brave souls willing to wade through the facts about these ugly, heinous conditions in our legal system, and the downtrodden appreciate it.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
7. Thanks, Solly
Mon Sep 14, 2015, 07:34 PM
Sep 2015



The abject cruelty of throwing a dying man in jail and not giving him oxygen, because he's too poor to pay fees is eye-opening, or should be, but too many middle class and upper class people don't give a shit about the poor.

They let their governments spend their tax money to incarcerate poor and sick people, and never think twice about it.

Our judicial system is engineered unmercifully to completely divest the poor of any dignity, rights or hope.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
10. There's always a future
Mon Sep 14, 2015, 11:08 PM
Sep 2015

and each one of us has the ability to make choices that lead to a better future or a sorrier one.

It's easy to turn away from the poor, but we're paying more to torment the poor than we'd pay to help them.

Our legislators need to go home, and we need a fresh set who don't get on their knees for the few, and then sell out the many.

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