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I hate that the Orwellian thought of ballot boxes requiring armed guards just entered my brain, because it just did. It goes against everything democracy is supposed to be, but this is where American fascism has led my thoughts to rot
With a sufficiently not-fucking-around response to the terrorists who did it, betcha won't need guards.
But America is gonna wrist slap nazis and say please.
You can't prosecute the meth out of a redneck, America has tried for decades.
There are people who have the basic mammalian capability for aversion association, and people who don't, these morons are no more capable of learning than ants.
Don't bother trying to set an example, just use enforced attrition.
I'm sorry but what exactly do you mean by "enforced attrition".
If I were to run his statement through a different filter he's stating "it's in their genes and we need to kill them" but I don't think he wants to use those words.
Oh yeah, that's my thoughts as well. Which is weird, it's not usually something you run into in this context.
I think they're referring to using punishment less as a deterrent to potential future offenders and more as a way of getting the people who prove themselves incapable of living in a civil society off of the streets. I don't mean to speak for anyone, that was just my takeaway.
Which is suspiciously close to concentration camps.
You got to Godwin's Law territory in record time, there. I'm talking about throwing the book at literal fucking terrorists.
See that's setting an example, which Inverse Parallax specifically said they were done with. Do you see my problem here?
Also concentration camps are not Godwin's law territory, plenty of other countries have used them, including the US.
You know what image that kind of language invokes. It's also not germane to the issue either way, because I'm not talking about politically persecuting people, I'm talking about judicial expediency dealing with people who are committing actual crimes and using their political views as justification for it.
Uh huh, yeah. The crime here being... (Checks up thread) Living in a rural area.
Shitty strawman but I guess we can't expect much from the schools out there
And who are you? You're out here defending something awfully close to stochastic terrorism by assuming all the worst stuff about the people someone else was talking about. They literally said,
And you're out here like, they're obviously talking about the locking up criminals. And you blow right by the fact that long sentences are the traditional means of setting an example, it's already a thing to lock people up in way they never come back to the street, as an example. So what's next? What's further down the path? Beyond long sentences to set an example? Well your bestest buddy here uses the words, "enforced attrition." Let's have a look at the definitions for those words.
So we're going cause the reduction in strength of rednecks by force. And lest you think we would be talking about forcing them to eat less, this is a specific example in the dictionary for attrition,
So I don't know where you went to school, but at mine they taught us critical reading. And this reads like some shit Goebbels would say. And that's proving Godwin's Law.
It's not really orwellian.
It's Oregon, the number of methed up rednecks without shit to do is unimaginable.
Orwellian would be if it were planned, this is just old-fashioned redneck stupidity.
I know, I just hate that this is my headspace regarding what are supposed to be free and democratic elections. It's an existential kind of dread, and it fucking sucks
Lol, free and fair elections.
Should try voting in the south while brown.
This is the America I knew growing up, it's weird to see everyone else shocked by it.
Then again, I also feel like the filth leaked out and is trying to follow me :(
Yeah man, let's just agree this sucks for anyone with any degree of empathy.
I'm white, grew up in Florida and got to witness Bush v Gore firsthand as a teen, the psychic damage messed me up so bad, enough to the point where I started to pay attention and be more politically active.
I'm casting a vote against fascism and racism - We're in this together