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[–] [S] 78 points 8 months ago (2 children)

so MAGA can threaten the president and it's cool? Smh.

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  • [–] 51 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    That’s not a threat. “The death penalty” is a lawful punishment carried out by the state in response to conviction of certain crimes, not mob violence (technically). Just because the end result is death, does not mean that prescribing it is a threat, just like how “you should die of pancreatic cancer” isn’t a threat.

    Now I’ve got to go shower after saying that the death penalty isn’t mob violence.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    If it makes you feel any better it's not mob violence, it just shares the worst aspects of it. Emotion driven desire for vengeance.
    It's not a defense of the death penalty to recognize that it's deliberate, planned, and applied under the auspices of the law. It just makes the law look a little worse.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That is true, though. Mob violence doesn't care about evidence, the law, proportionality to the crime, or the victims. It's terrorism built around emotional and fear responses. Lynchings were not the same as a judge amd jury weighing out the death penalty vs. life in prison. Depending on the court, one can even appeal the death penalty ruling, and new evidence can overturn the ruling if there's time.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago

    I mean, the US President has 34 felonies at least, so they're in the same kind of company

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago

    Freudian slip

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It's satire from Elijah Manley.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    What a sweet message to post on Valentine's Day ❤️

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Isn't pedophilia just the attraction, not necessarily acting on it? I don't think people should be punished (especially not with the death penalty) based on thoughts alone. There should have to be some action.

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, and we should really be using much more direct and affecting terms like "child rapist" and "child sex trafficker" to describe people like the president. It's less euphemistic. Calling a person who has raped children a "pedophile" seems like minimization to me.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Absolutely.

    Besides, I don't get why the correct terms like "child abuser/molester/rapist" are used so infrequently. They are strong enough and they represent the nature of a crime much better.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Exactly. Being attracted to children isn't something a person chooses. It's essentially a fetish, although one that no one should ever partake in. Anyone who wants to get help to make sure they never act on it should be able to, especially since a decent chunk were victims themselves.

    But once they act on it, they're predators who need to be dealt with to the full extent of the law.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    It's a diagnosis and there are clinical criteria. The term is used inaccurately more often then not. While colloquial and domain definitions often differ, I think I agree with the other commenter: the language people use should be more direct and visceral.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Teacher teacher! She said bad word!

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