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Why do we have to hang on every word this fucking arsehole says? He's an utter cretin.
Well the media invested a lot of time and effort to get him elected and now they want to cash in on all that hard work.
Four years.
Four goddamn years I had to wake up every day and pay attention to what asinine shit the President of the United States tweeted.
Because, unfortunately, that utter cretin had the nuclear button.
And now we have to endure another four years of the same.
Shit, for all the bad things you can say about Biden, you can at least say that whenever you heard a story start with "Today, the president said..." in the news, you weren't immediately going "ah fuck here we go". Four years I dealt with that kind of reflexive dread.
God, I wish I could just slip into a coma until 2029.
Honestly, if we get out of this one without some sort of nuclear exchange, I’m going to be mildly shocked. Remember: this is the guy who had to be talked down from nuking a fucking hurricane, and apparently it took a while to convince him it wasn’t the sharpest idea.
Personally I'd like to keep up with the Canada comments considering he's threatening to annex our fucking country. Americans, fix your country
It's not my country. Mine has it's moments but it's not that stupid.
It doesn't feel like it's our country anymore either...
Because he's itching for vengeance against his enemies and is about to be in charge of the most powerful military and intelligence operations in the history of the world.
He sure does talk a lot of shit about death penalty for someone who allegedly committed high treason, punishable by death.
Why I don't support the death penalty.
Not to mention that no other OECD country except for Japan still has it.
I have two reasons why I'm against it.
Innocent people will get sentenced. There's no way around that. Sententing an innocent person to death is among the greatest injustices I can think of so I'll rather have someone guilty walk free. Granted that sentencing an innocent person to life in prison aint that much better but this is where the second reason comes in.
I don't believe in free will. Punishing someone for something they did is not compatible with the way I see the word*. It's like punishing a grizzly bear for attacking a person. If you're danger to society you should be locked up one way or another but not as a punishment but to keep others safe. I think that even if you're a murderer you should be treated well and we should figure out a way for them to live relatively normal lives behind the bars. They can't help themselves. They didn't choose to be born that way and thus shouldn't be punished as if they could have acted otherwise.
* Risk of consequences still works as a deterrence and that "punishment" be it fine or jail time should still be carried out because otherwise it loses its credibility.
In extreme cases sure, tho I feel the need to point out the context of the vats majority of criminals being conditioned into crime by their surrounding. Poverty and discrimination come to mind among others. I my opinion the best way to prevent anything is to hit it at its source, in this case making every day life more livable. Not only does that mean life must be comfortably affordable, but mental health should also be a top priority.
I don't disagree with any of that nor do I feel like it goes against anything I just said.
I absolutely agree with point 1.
I've never really thought about point 2. I don't think I'm ready to say I don't believe in free will, but I do agree that people are largely a product of their circumstances. I think in the case of a serial killer, it might not meet your definition of "free will" but it's a person who has been methodical about the taking of life and not shown any contrition.
I would however add point 3. I don't want to take someone's life even if they deserve to die.
... and point 4 I just thought of... there's not really any good reasons for capital punishment. It's not a deterrent, and who cares about the cost of incarceration really.
Cost of an execution is more than the cost of life in prison as well.
Doesn't point 2 kind of justify execution too? We're not chosing to execute that action it was pre-determined that we would execute that person from the moment the universe began.
Just because it happened doesn't mean it wasn't a mistake that we can learn from. In that regard, it was not justified.
Now if you are talking about taking the same action in a parallel universe, then that definitely depends on the perspective you're modelling.
History is filled with innocent bodies due to the death penalty.
Before I clicked this link, I already had visions of that kid with tears in his eyes as they put him in the electric chair... and hoped that it wasn't the same one.
I'm surprised to learn he's 14, he looks 9!
He should do that himself, he would be right at home.
We don't want him
Reminder that about 1 in 25 people on death row are estimated to be innocent.
Reminder trumps been found very very guilty.
Old man yells at clouds
Actually he said "Governor" Trudeau
were just given, incredibly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden
dumfuk lying again. on purpose. trying to get the cult riled-up over 'pardons' that didn't happen.
a commuted sentence is not a pardon.
these 37 men are still guilty. they are still in jail.. for life.. without parole. they will remain there and never be released.
The best part is nobody fucken knows what that means and they just believe these dudes are instantly set upon the streets.
It's just insane to me how many Americans are so stupid that they don't hear something like that, and think, "well that's quite the claim, I wonder if it's true..."
These people have zero incredulity. They choose to believe the most insane shit with no evidence based entirely on how they feel about the person who said it.
I mean I see it happen on Lemmy with fake tweets and such. Divide the parties into eight at least, destroy Citizens United and make its practices illegal. Only allow campaign donations from the public, no private entities. We have to fix this before we all fall to tribalism and the systematic deconstruction of education.
Who the fuck cares what this guy writes on Christmas. Dude just says the same ignorant shit over and over to rile up his supporters.
A tyrant's rage
A nation divide
Like toddlers tears
When rattles denied
"That was my thing!"
Now broken plans
As he wipes a tear
with little hands
Biden stole
His hateful thunder
Who's next in sight?
I mustn't wonder.
He's got some real skill at expressing inarticulate, impotent rage.
And if there were a Hell, Trump would be headed for the least pleasant precinct in it.
He's already there, and we're living in it with him. This is the bad place.
He’s so damn embarrassing. What the heck did I just read
Trump, do you really want those violent criminals to go to the same place you’re destined for?
In the great Christmas spirit.
"You first."
Trump is sad that he only gets execute one of the remaining three. The other two (Dylan Roof and Robert Bowers) are destined for bigger things in the Trump cabinet.
What, does it want to have tea with them in about a decade?
No, he's pissed because the neo Nazis weren't commuted.
Then he can do that himself in a couple of weeks. I was just joking that he was going to hell.
Quite a display of senile dementia.