Gosh, these cons seem like such well-adjusted adults, don't they?
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Conservatives straight up stealing notes from ISIS.
Yours first, bitch.
Hamas has a great deal of knowledge in the area of public executions.
As much as I believe there are some whut deserve it, and boy howdy, do I, I'm not a bloodthirsty revenge hobo.
I just want folks to not be traitors, not be opportunistic thugs, not be Nazis, and not kill/wish to kill innocents that just want to live.
It's really simple: don't do that shit to others, don't suck the dicks of those who tell you to, stay the fuck off and out of people's bodies, don't use God or whom/whatever as an excuse to be a cunt, and mind your own fucking business.
When children are exposed to real life violence, many end up experiencing future developmental and emotional problems. This isn’t the same as a movie or video game, we’re talking about real human death.
Guy at work touted this out. Before I could even say it he was like, "well not small children." Guys, let's be real here, these idiots don't know a God damn thing and are just constantly running their mouths.
You know who else thinks public executions are a valid means of maintaining power and control over others? Religious extremists...oh wait.
I have been privy to people's reactions to watching videos, even grainy distorted ones of executions or accidental death. While adults are generally fairly innocculated against depictions of death that are known to be fictional the same is not true of the real thing. There is good reason why even barely legible death caught on film is aired on news broadcasts with warnings and particularly graphic ones are not broadcast at all. While I think I sit somewhere on the less effected side (effected but very good at compartmentalization) a lot of the people I have personally witnessed veiw footage have been generally very perturbed to the point where the mental disquiet lingers for days after the fact.
Young children are generally perturbed by depictions of theatrical or even loosely conceptualized death in print. While some might seem brave in the face of fictional gore it's basically just playing brave and flouting their idea of being tough when what they are being tough against is a safe little fiction. People who like slasher movies aren't immune to being traumatically impacted when exposed to real death on film.
I find it very telling that there is this mental disconnect that children being "exposed" to the depictions of same sex relationships which are often depicted in the same chaste presentation heterosexual relationships are for age appropriate audiences is somehow "disturbing" while something legitimately traumatizing to the average adult is somehow something kids should be exposed to in the most graphic way possible.
I don't think this man should be permitted to be around children much less advocate for what constitutes an initiation into adulthood.
Simple - they want children to think two boys kissing is scary and taboo, but want children to think hanging a boy in the public square for kissing a boy is super cool and normal.
Yeah, the unvarnished answer is usually about that ugly isn't it?
Stumbled across an execution on 4chan once in my early twenties. The moment I realized what was up I closed the browser and never returned to 4chan. It still pops up in my head every now and then as an intrusive thought.
If anyone ever tried to force one of my kids to watch an execution I'd lose my damn mind, regardless of their age.
In a way I'm glad to hear it affected you so much. I think that's generally healthy.
Why I made many a shiny shilling working as a Jack Ketch as a young whelp.
Tis a fine and noble profession.
His execution?
Tonight on the Execution Channel!
How should we execute this homosexual? Vote now. Calls charged at $5 a minute, minimum charge $5.
Dax Shepard is shitting and drinking a slurpie watching this on one of 40 screens including hits like ow my balls
"Today's execution broadcast is sponsored by Dunkin Donuts. America runs on Dunkin"
Free small fry at McDonald's if the lethal injection is botched
Reminds me of Oryx and Crake.
I'd be open to him taking the first step and broadcasting his own so then we can decide how to move forward.
Being on death row for years is torture, why would we seek to spare the condemned agony only at the last moment? The answer is that we don't. "Painless" or "humane" executions are meant to spare the State and capital punishment supporters of pain, not the condemned.
Pure evil.
The conservatives want to constantly ramp up the fear factor to keep people in line and this idea of public executions as a spectacle is perfectly in line with their ethos. They are already starting to experiment with new execution methods at the expense of human lives. It is literally the nazi regime again, no hyperbole.
The "protect the children" group, pro doing nothing to stop school shootings, wants kids to watch people be murdered by the state, doesn't want to let schools feed kids or uplift impoverished families, leading to starving/malnourished children...
But God forbid someone who "looks funny" (to them) wants to read them a kids book.
man i hate this guy a lot
More ideas from the Taliban playbook.
Remember kids, a boy is a boy and a girl is a girl, and three witnesses saw Katie get raped so we're going to stone her to death!
They know they have to normalize public execution before they can openly hang the disobedient handmaids on the wall.
If your goal is to make everyone traumatized and live in fear of the government from a young age, then sure
The irony is that these people always talk about "small government" and go on and on about "freedom".
But yeah, let's have public executions and have children watch them.....SMH.
That’s exactly the goal
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