- 4 days
Because he’s a sadist and thinks it makes him look strong to murder people.
7 daysWhy now? Because conservatives love to go backwards.
Did a South Carolina firing squad deliberately try to miss a man’s heart during an execution last month to prolong his death?
That’s what attorneys for Stephen Stanko, the next prisoner slated to die, contend.
I mean, ugh.
We need to stop calling these fuckers conservatives. Conservative implies that you are maintaining the status quo. These bastards are straight-up regressives.
- 7 days
Maintaining what status quo?
Don’t worry! History has an answer! It’s the divine right of kings!
- 7 days
Conservative implies that you are maintaining the status quo.
No, Conservatism protects the unaccountable privilege of the upper class. That’s the only status quo they maintain. They’ll tear down anything else, no matter how long it’s existed. And it has been that way since the term “conservative” was coined. It was a reaction against Enlightenment ideas that rule of law should apply to everyone, and that those holding positions of power should be appointed by merit and held accountable to the people. It has always favored sinecures, nepotism, royally granted monopolies, bribery and obfuscated ownership.
The great British politician Tony Benn distilled five questions that should be asked of those in power in order to maintain a functioning democracy:
- What power have you got?
- Where did you get it from?
- In whose interest do you exercise it?
- To whom are you accountable?
- How can we get rid of you?
You will notice that conservatives will always react aggressively when asked any of these questions.
- Auli@lemmy.caEnglish7 days
No it supposed to mean maintain the status quo. And don’t.be stupid and think the left doesn’t do the exact same thing about the upper class.
- 4 days
No it supposed to mean maintain the status quo.
Look at the enclosure of the commons in the UK for a counterexample. A centuries-long tradition of common ownership of grazing land was overturned because seizing that land enriched already wealthy landowners (represented by the Conservative Party). In other words, the status quo went out the window when it conflicted with the interests of the elite.
The same could be said of changes to trade policy over the years, in both the UK and the US, where contradictory positions (protectionism for a while, then free trade) were adopted depending on which made a buck for the rich.
And don’t.be stupid and think the left doesn’t do the exact same thing about the upper class.
You don’t know anything about my intelligence, and you have no idea what “the left” means when you trot out that weak whatabout.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyzEnglish7 days
“This savage terrorist deserves the harshest lawful punishment for his 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood,” Hegseth told several media outlets, including The Hill, at the time. “The victims and survivors deserve justice without delays.”
Because the prisoner is Muslim. They don’t refer to white supremacist mass shooters as ‘savage terrorists’.
- 7 days
I am opposed to the death penalty, but as far as methods go, firing squad seems more honest than lethal injection. It looks like killing rather than dressing it up like a medical procedure.
- 4 days
Hitting them on the head with a sledgehammer is honest as well. That doesn’t make it humane.
- Pratai@piefed.caEnglish7 days
Why? Because he’s a child-fucking pedophile and he wants you to forget it.
I’d much rather throw him in prison.
And give him livestreams of things like his ballroom being ripped down, the pool being properly restored, all those tacky gold gewgaws that he glued to the walls of the WH scraped off, Biden’s picture restored instead of that bullshit about an “autopen” and the most unflattering picture of donnie put up there with a description of how he’s a rapist, a pedophile, a traitor and a war criminal, the Rose Garden restored, Obama’s picture put on the passports, currency with Hillary’s picture on it, the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario being restored on all maps, and on and on. Maybe fake feeds in some cases, others not. Concoct fake feeds about how Obama got 5 more Nobel Peace Prizes…
And he gets no other entertainment, and definitely no Internet access. No cameras on him, either.
There are war criminal on both party, although the republicans has more
- 7 days
Very soon, the regime will need to execute a lot of people. Firing squad is a lot faster.
- 7 days
Mikal Mahdi was shot in lungs and he was suffering from excruciating pain while dying simply because he killed a police officer.
- 7 days
Oh, I know why. It makes his tiny little mushroom hard thinking about being responsible for shooting someone.
- darthsundhaft@piefed.socialEnglish7 days
It’s a message. Follow his orders or “get shot”. His hold on all of us right now is all bent on us being afraid enough to not do anything to him and his cult. That may change here very shortly thanks to the resistance in Spain, France, and Brazil.
Soon he will taste his own medicine.
