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The ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon both have fire suppression systems that are designed to activate when the temperature inside reaches a certain point, coating ballots inside with a fire-suppressing powder.

For unknown reasons, the system failed to prevent the destruction of hundreds of ballots in Vancouver, just across the Columbia River from Portland.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sorry but what exactly do you mean by "enforced attrition".

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, that's my thoughts as well. Which is weird, it's not usually something you run into in this context.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is suspiciously close to concentration camps.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You got to Godwin's Law territory in record time, there. I'm talking about throwing the book at literal fucking terrorists.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh huh, yeah. The crime here being... (Checks up thread) Living in a rural area.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shitty strawman but I guess we can't expect much from the schools out there

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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,

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.

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.

Enforced - To cause something to happen by force.

Attrition - The action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure.

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,

The gradual reduction of a workforce by employees' leaving and not being replaced rather than by their being laid off.

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.