• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    They aren’t looking to deter anything. If anything, the opposite. The real point here though is just flexing their ability to be cruel in public. That’s 100% all it is.

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    10 hours ago

    Isn’t this what ISIS did…?

    Oh the irony. I feel like the overlap of people that want this also think terrorists in the Middle East who do it were barbaric.

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      Republicans were always yelling at sharia law but not because they don’t like it as a concept. It was because it they had a hard time getting similar things passed in the US.

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    We don’t need public executions, we need more affordable housing, food, medicine, healthcare, energy, education, etc. My life is not made better one little bit by watching some guy get shot to death, regardless of what that guy did. Violent spectacle is no substitute for real, meaningful change and progress.

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    18 hours ago

    Why is Todd from Breaking Bad the one saying this? Like why are we listening to the neo-Nazi child murderer meth cook Todd Alquist weighing in?

    I swear to god memes have devolved to the level of braindeath where it’s just “character says the thing I want to say regardless of context”.

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    People argue that capital punishment is a deterrent so others wont commit the same crimes. Does anyone really think making this guy a martyr on live television is going to make other radicals like him more discouraged? Its only going to add to the infamy.

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      Exactly, they are just inciting future retaliation. Same as some sensible Israelis pointed out…all The atrocities commited against Palestinian created thale Hama’s attack, and the current genocide attemot isn’t quelling anything(unless they 100% complete their goal), it will lead to more radicals.

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    I’m not shedding tears for Hassan. I think this may help inspire more terrorism, but fuck that guy. I don’t support the death penalty at all, but with Epstein crimes, man am I tempted.

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      15 hours ago

      If you dont remove cancer, it grows back.

      Trump and co need to be removed permanently, or they will remain a threat.

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    21 hours ago

    Isn’t this what we should be doing to traitors?

    Also, I read it as The Pentagram, which doesn’t seem too far off the mark these days.