• FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    packwatch I'm not going to shed any tears if she's executed but I also kinda hope it gets downgraded to a life sentence.

    • booty [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      I'm against killing prisoners but I'm 100% for keeping the death penalty on the books just so you can sentence all billionaires to death before graciously lessening their sentence

      • Rx_Hawk [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Did you think it was all a bit and we didn’t actually want the billionaires to die?

        • OneDakotaPolicy [none/use name]
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          8 months ago

          I thought there was a little more pushback on the death penalty. I don't doubt that people want to see the end of billionaires.

          • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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            8 months ago

            The death penalty is bad when wielded by bad people for bad reasons, and good when wielded by good people for good reasons. Materialism ain't that complicated, Dakota.

            • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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              8 months ago

              Disagre, there's no such thing as a good death penalty presided over by good people, it's too risky, too high a chance for a mistake even in the best system

              Unless it's a billionaire, then there can't be a mistake

              • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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                8 months ago

                My personal favorite Che quotation

                Executions? Yes, we have executed. We execute and we will continue to execute when it is necessary. Our fight is a fight to the death.

              • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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                8 months ago

                Generally agree when it’s in peace time. But defrauding workers like this? Very few countries in this world ever punish these people, and even in the socialist ones, the rich enjoy immense privilege. The death penalty may not deter an average guy from committing heinous crimes because he has no expectation of decency from his society. But it does put the fear of god into the people who think they’re untouchable. Now, for Vietnam to weed out its corruption from the top so shit like this needs to happen less.

          • Owl [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            It's not ideal, but it would take a great deal of effort to restrain a billionaire's influence (merely stripping their assets and imprisoning them isn't enough), and while I would prefer a society that spends that great deal of effort to save people, there are still homeless and starving people whose lives could be saved with less effort.

            • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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              8 months ago

              billionaires are kinda like monarchists, they could "abdicate" and peacefully live out the rest of their life as a dirt farmer or work in a factory they used to own but most of them would rather die than be a normal person.

            • yoink [she/her]
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              8 months ago

              imo it is a minor form of liberalism to believe that there exists any amount of punishment and recuperative effort that would meaningfully remove the very power and influence that got said billionaire to this point in the first place

          • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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            8 months ago

            I'm against the death penalty because the person thus penalized may not be guilty, and could be rehabilitate. Post revolution I'd say the death penalty should flat out not exist, but for now, there's no way to be wrong about billionaires

            They either are or are not billionaires. And if they ARE, they get it in the neck

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        8 months ago

        I’m generally not okay with the death sentence. But I’m also not going to lose sleep over this one. If you dropped dead tomorrow in their factories they won’t even be notified about it. You’ll be replaced before they finish their caviar. Hopefully she’ll be dead before I finish pissing.

      • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        Do you understand what these greedy psychopath type of people do to our society?

        Death is too good for them.