I would say that imprisoning someone for life, regardless of the level of comfort, is no light sentence. Your old life is gone. The people you cared about, most will essentially or actually disappear from your life.

Killing is not the only meaningful way to punish someone, and even fracturing a skull is not necessarily a greater harm to someone than imprisoning then for life.

Because our world rewards villains more than heroes.

Sure, that’s an option. But all you’re doing is leaving the choice up to everyone else. No amount of abstention is going to shift this system into having more than 2 meaningful political parties.

If you really wanna say that neither candidate will produce a result you would prefer over the other, even if both are distasteful to you - then great, don’t vote. When my only two useful options are between a warm hell and a hot hell, I will be casting my vote for the warm hell - and then using my time before the next election to try to get people to push for a less shitty Dem next time.

You do you, you funky echidna.

You may be missing just how skewed the information sources are for so many people. When their most trusted sources consistently weave the narrative that all the horrors of ICE are negative spin and lies, then it’s easier for those people to assume the real people and other news sources in their life telling them something closer to objective truth are parroting corrupted information. It isn’t until they see it in front of them, impacting someone they know for sure isn’t evil/a criminal/a threat, that they truly come face to face with the possibility that they were lied to by those they most trusted.