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    4 months ago

    You realize organizing a charter flight and bribes for Qatar are a lot more expensive than keeping 20-odd people in jail, right?

    Saving money, not giving money to autocracies, and also saving human lives seems like a win-win-win to me.

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        4 months ago

        Where are you getting 20 years from? Most likely, most of these convictions are either already past or sub-1-year convictions for stealing, drug offences, refugee-specific offences (like leaving town) or random other small shit.

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            4 months ago

            That sentence includes “20 years”, so technically speaking, I guess you answered my question.

            But the fact that the US was in Afghanistan for 20 years is entirely unrelated to the length of convictions.