Americans when you propose to spend money on schools, medical facilities, public transit, or any other infrastructure projects which will improve people's lives for decades to come: "Not with my tax dollars! That's communism!"
Americans when billions of dollars are spent on super-prisons: "Make sure to give the guards gold-plated laser rifles while you're at it!"
It's curious how superprisons are presented as apolitical while there is fierce debate around whether people should be able to live. Makes you 
Just one more ~~lane~~ detain, Bro!
Fuck prisons. Fuck the police. Fuck the bourgeoisie. ๐ด๐ด๐ด
Forgive me, I've never had a billion dollars. Can you do anything with it aside from evil?
Post title reminds me of those Onion discussion panels
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