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[–] 248 points 6 days ago (61 children)

Any standard below imprisonment is unacceptable

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  • [–] 136 points 6 days ago (28 children)

    The guy is responsible for bombing a school and killing 150 young girls. We execute people for less in the US.

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  • [–] 41 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I think it's the boats that will get him. I think they ended up killing several hundred at random. Iran was a war-not-a-war so that may give him some cover as a failure.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago*

    I'm not so sure... is the American public even aware of the boat strikes?

    2/3rds of the senate is a big hill to climb, especially when many of the R's that survived are from far right states.

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  • [–] 59 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    not if the victims are brown...

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  • [–] 11 points 6 days ago (17 children)

    I’ll pass on capital punishment.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    He should be "executed" on live TV, but the guns just "shoot" out a flag that's says "prison for life".

    He needs to think he's actually being executed though: he's fine with it.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    It would definitely scar him a lot. I’ve had a gun held to my head before and it really fucks you up for sure.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago

    I hope you've been (and are) able to deal with that trauma in a healthy way.

    Come to think of it, I'm not sure I wish that on anyone, no matter who they are.

    He's possibly barely suffered a consequence in his entire life, so probably even the thought of there being any consequences is terrifying (enough) to him.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    I get where you're coming from, but war crimes aren't cool.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Normally I'd agree. But conservative traitors who commit atrocities in public view while celebrating and bragging are my exception.

    These cockroaches need to suffer the same torture they have inflicted upon their victims. If they survive CECOT for a year, then we put them in a fishing boat and take bets on how far they get before exploding.

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    100% a distinction that seems lost on a lot of people.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah I honestly don’t think I’d be able to see that if I weren’t pacifist. I do understand their anger but I do wish people could differentiate between what’s based off their anger and what should actually be done once the anger is filtered out and processed by our analytical side.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 days ago (27 children)

    Televised execution?

    Jk, I never want that.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    I personally disagree with normalization of such violence. It makes people tolerate it to the point they don't even register it as wrong. Hence why repubs wanted to publicly execute people.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 days ago (9 children)

    I’d counter that almost no one deserves the trauma of watching someone being killed.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago

    Honestly, I disagree. A stance I hold is that voters should have to see the horrors of war. You shouldn't be allowed to elect someone who may send people off to die brutally without knowing what that looks like. By this, I don't mean watching Band of Brothers or something. I mean actual footage of people being injured or dying in modern combat. You're choosing that for other people, so you should have to know what it actually is.

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  • Desensitization is a type of trauma. Many people are, in fact, traumatized by seeing death.

    I have seen people die and I have seen dead bodies and it’s a weight on me for over twenty years. It compounds instead of getting better.

    I’ve seen people have nightmares after scrolling through Facebook and seeing Charlie Kirk die. People that were somewhat okay with him being dead but still traumatized by seeing it.

    No one should see it without consent. I mean really informed consent not just “sure, I’ll watch this.” They have to know all the risks. Even then, I’d still prefer they didn’t.

    I don’t like your argument about earlier public executions. I’m pretty sure none of them were okay.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    9 year old me (casually scrolling on 4chan) would agree. I still remember accidentally stumbling across my first beheading video. The early (largely unmoderated) internet was like the Wild West.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    What if it could be death by tickling?

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    Being executed isn't humiliating. You wanna humiliate them put them in a public pillory and sell tomatoes and live stream it 24x7.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    Proceeds from the tomato sales go towards funding his continued imprisonment

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    We could cancel all taxes and balance the national budget if they set this up for Trump.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    Gonna have to disagree with that one. I'd imagine a public execution where you have people shouting for your death, as your crimes are read out loud for everyone to hear, would, not only, be humiliating, but put the real fear of God in you as you finally realize your actions have caught up with you.

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