• nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    People are gonna start thinking they’re better off doing murder to escape than getting caught.

    If some cops have to die to really cement in the public view that leftist protesters are all terrorists, well, that's a sacrifice the elites are glad to make.

    • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      This was definitely a trend in early modern Britain where basically every crime was punished by the death penalty. Better to kill the lord while stealing sheep or cutting trees because dead men tell no tales

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They needed to force people off the land and in to the factories, but they also wanted the financial advantages of wage slavery, so they just made everything a death penalty offense to terrorize the peasantry in to submission.