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ChaoticNeutralCzech , (edited ) in ‘Get Help’ – Elon Musk Blasted for Mocking Ukraine With Fake Zelensky Picture
BruceTwarzen ,

Holy shit what an absolute cunt.

Hackerman_uwu ,

BIGLY

ShittyRedditWasBetter , in Vigilante Pedophile Hunter Killed While Confronting Teens

Idiot. Left a kid behind.

Salamendacious OP ,
@Salamendacious@lemmy.world avatar

Idiot seems unnecessarily harsh but his child is truly an innocent victim here

aubertlone ,

I don’t know that it is unnecessarily harsh.

A guy with no training going around trying to catch pedophiles. He’s not the only one doing it in the US, and it’s almost always for clout.

People trying to be Mark Hanson and catch predators, except they don’t have a team of people and actual police contacts to help them. And it’s not because they’re so concerned about possible victims. It’s cuz they wanna play hero and put some shine on their name.

This dude managed to get himself killed and leave behind a dependent child. He kinda WAS being an idiot. I feel bad for the kid.

Salamendacious OP ,
@Salamendacious@lemmy.world avatar

He’s dead. To me calling him an idiot is like spitting on his grave. It seems unnecessary. I’m not saying that it is or isn’t accurate.

GreenMario ,

We should be allowed to speak Ill/talk shit about the dead.

Salamendacious OP ,
@Salamendacious@lemmy.world avatar

I never said that you weren’t allowed I just don’t think it’s appropriate. You’re free to say whatever you want.

cley_faye ,

Dying doesn’t turn your past actions into good deeds.

Salamendacious OP ,
@Salamendacious@lemmy.world avatar

I never implied that they did. He’s dead. His child is fatherless. I just don’t see the purpose in insulting him to boot. It’s like beating a dead horse.

GCostanzaStepOnMe ,

Or a dead man. Which he is.

FlyingSquid , in Ukraine to build underground school in Kharkiv
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Well that’s just depressing…

FlyingSquid , in France to quit making cigarettes as last factory prepares to close
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Wait, my vision of a man wearing a striped shirt and a beret smoking a cigarette is not actually what French people are like?

AJB_l4u OP ,

lol

NounsAndWords ,

Not anymore. It’s all changing for the worse. I hear they’re coming after the baguettes next. The mimes are speechless.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Sacré bleu!

Kecessa ,

No accent on the e

jawa21 ,
@jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Maybe that is the mime speaking for the first time since childhood.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I can’t find any source of the spelling or meaning of the phrase that does not have an accent over the e other than Wikipedia, which has both depending on who made the edit. You sure 'bout that?

Kecessa ,

I’m Quebecois, French is my first language ;)

guiguinofake ,

It was originally Sacré dieu(sacred god), but since it’s blasphemy it became Sacrebleu. Sacrebleu on Wikitionary

mounderfod ,
@mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

It is either sacrebleu or sacré bleu, but both are correct

TedJ70 ,
@TedJ70@aussie.zone avatar

Well steal my onions and call me Jacques!

Obi ,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

No no that’s still accurate, it’s just that the cigarettes are imported now.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

How can they truly be French and not smoke Gauloises I ask you?

Chariotwheel ,

RIP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gauloises_001.jpg

spez ,

Your link is broken, here’s the correct one : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gauloises_001.jpg

Chariotwheel ,

You see?

spez ,

You see?

Uh… what?

Chariotwheel ,

Your link is working as well as mine. At least on kbin.

spez ,
jumperalex ,

Jokes aside, I swear they really do walk around with baguettes in hand. 3 days in Paris, sitting at multiple cafes, and we saw it in the morning, at lunch, in the evening. Men, Women, Children, well dressed, poorly dressed (for a Parisian), black, white, brown, blue, green, every combination in between, we’d see someone walking around with baguettes. I’ve lived in multiple cities and visited even more in the US and Europe. Never have I seen so many people walking around with bread!

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

That’s because fresh baguettes are damn hard to beat.

MonkderZweite ,

And hard to eat if they aren’t fresh anymore.

1bluepixel ,
@1bluepixel@lemmy.world avatar

People eat bread and pick it up from their local bakery then walk home with it instead of stuffing it in the trunk of their SUV to drive two blocks. What do you expect.

jumperalex ,

You’re right of course, nor was I making any judgements. I loved seeing it! It made me smile. As did the quintessential “scowling french waiter” standing 15ft in front of us on the other side of the side walk, with apron and and all. And despite a previous poster’s comment about their infamous cultural rudeness, these slightly overweight, non-french speaking Americans didn’t experience any overt rudeness at all. If they were bad mouthing us quietly in french they did a great job of hiding it. [shrug]

I would visit Paris again in a heartbeat; though I would never fly Air France nor pass through CDG if you paid me. Such a horrible experience. Guess we’ll fly BA into LHR and take the chunnel or a ferry for the experience.

The_v ,

They also live up their their infamous cultural rudeness.

The bagetttes make my poor mouth sore after a couple of days as well. I much prefer the breads in northern Europe.

jumperalex ,

[shrug] we really didn’t experience the rudeness they are so famous for. But I’m not denying it’s a thing. Either way, I enjoy both styles of bread very much.

Sacreblew ,

When I went to Paris this summer, lots of locals were smoking. The odor of Paris was urine and cigarettes.

FrostbyteIX ,
@FrostbyteIX@lemmy.world avatar

Nothing speaks “city of love” like the smell of stale piss and burnt tobacco at the Eiffel Tower!

DoucheBagMcSwag , (edited )

“Heuh heuh”

background bistro accordion music gets louder

AlexisFR ,
@AlexisFR@jlai.lu avatar

Well you still have 50% of the adult population regularly smoking so nothing change on this part.

FlyingSquid , in Vigilante Pedophile Hunter Killed While Confronting Teens
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe punching a suspected pedophile is not the best way to bring them to justice?

Salamendacious OP ,
@Salamendacious@lemmy.world avatar

That was my first thought. I can only imagine he wasn’t able to control his anger in the moment. I’m sure he saw himself as doing important work. It’s sad that a child is going to grow up without a father now.

GrammatonCleric ,
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  • agent_flounder ,
    @agent_flounder@lemmy.one avatar

    How do you figure?

    In what way will a punch prevent a child rapist from wrecking the lives of more children?

    Will it somehow cause them to stop? Will it cause them to face charges for their crimes? Lead to therapy in hopes of reform?

    I don’t see how a punch is likely to do any of these things.

    Anything resulting in their arrest and conviction? Great. Do that.

    Bridger ,

    punching an innocent kid while falsely accusing them of being a pedophile and being shot in response though does have the ring of poetic justice…

    kent_eh ,

    Maybe punching a suspected pedophile is not the best way to bring them to justice?

    Especially when he has accused innocent people in the past.

    FlyingSquid , in ‘Get Help’ – Elon Musk Blasted for Mocking Ukraine With Fake Zelensky Picture
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Why do so many American politicians from both parties care 100 times more about the Ukraine border than the USA border?

    Because your boss Putin threatens the entire Western world, whereas Hondurans threaten… dishwashers and fruit pickers?

    gplalpha ,

    Elon from hero to bootlicker, i wonder how long til we start to see russian bots on lemmy

    ZILtoid1991 ,
    @ZILtoid1991@kbin.social avatar

    The fediverse have a better incentive to keep itself spam free. Our platforms are not driven by "attention retaining" and "user engagement", or at least until ads are not coming here.

    muntedcrocodile ,
    @muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world avatar

    It would be interesting to see Lemmy communities that pay u to see their ads. We really need to make sure communities don’t decide to fund themselves with ads. It will be a whole new game of doing what the current companies are doing thus i hope the fediverse if nothing gives us competition.

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Do we need them when there’s Hexbear?

    ZILtoid1991 ,
    @ZILtoid1991@kbin.social avatar

    They're doing job that is long ago automated by bots. Even before ChatGPT.

    Furbag ,

    Normally I counter such false equivalencies by stating the obvious “It’s possible to care about more than one thing at a time.”, but in this case, nobody actually cares about the “crisis” at the border (not even Republicans) because it is a manufactured talking point that doesn’t require any action. It’s just an easy scapegoat to point to when the right wants to distract from whatever other untenable position they are currently losing ground in.

    I’ve survived more than a dozen “Migrant caravan” armageddon events complete with 24/7 news coverage about how life as we know it in America is coming to an end because the brown man is here to steal my job and fuck my sister or whatever. Every time it goes away quietly because adding a few hundred illegals who manage to slip by the fence never makes a significant impact on anything anywhere.

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    People do care. The stupid cultists who believe all that Republican bullshit. The ones that eat up Newsmax and Fox News.

    It’s so stupid. Anyone who actually has paid attention over the last 20 years knows that maybe the only thing that has changed is you hear Ranchero playing at construction sites instead of Country. Seriously, how have they impacted anyone’s life. They take the shit jobs no one else is taking for the shit pay no one wants to apply for. It’s not like there’s a ton of people looking for jobs right now. Unemployment is low.

    Goo_bubbs ,

    It’s not even really about them taking jobs for Republicans. The real reason is just basic-ass racism.

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Oh I know. But they won’t come out and say that most of the time.

    Texas_Hangover ,

    That’s pretty fucking racist.

    solivine , in Vigilante Pedophile Hunter Killed While Confronting Teens
    @solivine@sopuli.xyz avatar

    While they managed to catch 4 people, out of a total of 132 people that doesn’t sound very good, and might have even made it harder for the police to catch these people. One of them was found to be innocent, what if more of them were?

    hh93 ,

    I really don’t understand the boner so many Americans seem to have for vigilantism

    Just fix your goddamn police system - there’s a reason why vigilantism is outlawed since it’s too easy to misjudge or misidentify stuff and the consequences are horrible - let professionals do their job properly

    Sir_Kevin ,
    @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    I think that’s just it right there. Our police system is completely broken and for-profit. People want justice. So out of desperation they’re seeking it themselves.

    subignition ,
    @subignition@kbin.social avatar

    Just fix your goddamn police system - there’s a reason why vigilantism is outlawed since it’s too easy to misjudge or misidentify stuff and the consequences are horrible - let professionals do their job properly

    We've tried that, but the problem is they can't seem to do it without executing people, and/or the neighbor's dog, for fun.

    Potatos_are_not_friends ,

    Listen, in order to reduce crime in America, sometimes a bunch of innocent dogs, people in wheelchairs, children playing with toys, and people getting health checks have to die.

    Im14abeer ,

    Don’t forget flash banging infants in cribs sometimes they need to follow up with a bullet through the neck

    Cryophilia ,

    If we just kill everyone, there will be no more criminals. Flawless logic.

    Zahille7 ,

    I think part of it has something to do with the popularity of superhero movies like Batman and such. Honestly I think having the world’s biggest movie production system has been a net negative for Americans and humanity as a whole.

    kalleboo ,

    The US also has very much of a “cowboy” self image

    snooggums ,
    @snooggums@kbin.social avatar

    Cowboy justice in movies is kind of a semi whitewashed version of lynching.

    MNByChoice ,

    I think the cause is the other way around. We had vigilantes long before Batman. Cowboy movies weren’t making this stuff up.

    SCB ,

    Cowboy movies made a LOT of shit up. The Wild West was not full of gunfights

    JustAManOnAToilet ,

    I mean, you can visit the OK Corral and see where the bullets are lodged in the walls anytime you’d like.

    SCB ,

    Yep. That’'s one.

    Point is any old Western with a shootout is more likely to be totally false than even partially true.

    Zahille7 ,

    I remember reading somewhere that the “Old West” actually had pretty strict gun control.

    Iirc, the usual practice was to turn in your guns to the sheriff as soon as you got to town. You had to have a license or some official form stating you had the right to carry your gun with you, but it was still limited to basically just LEOs.

    flipht ,

    Alan Moore, who wrote Watchmen, was trying to make this point through his media, but he also explicitly stated it in interviews. He was like, "Y'all do realize that superhero stuff is fascist power fantasy, right? You shouldn't like this stuff as an adult."

    Zehzin ,
    @Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

    Love his work as Rasputin impersonator.

    GCostanzaStepOnMe ,

    I don’t believe Moore ever said “y’all”

    afraid_of_zombies ,

    Vigilantism is not a modern invention. I am sorry not all movies are arthouse and that makes you sad.

    moody ,

    Oh sure, lemme just fix the police system real quick. Give me a minute. I don’t know why nobody thought of that!

    miversen33 ,

    Well shit if only we’d known all we had to do was fix it quick!

    Silly us!

    elbarto777 ,

    That’s it? Just fix the police system?? Whoa, why didn’t we think of doing this sooner?!

    Steeve ,

    Why don’t I just strap on my fix the police system helmet and hop in the fix the police system cannon and fire myself into fix the police system town where police reform grows on trees?

    athos77 ,

    While we do have a problem with vigilantes deciding that their contribution is vitally necessary to keep things running (see: Kyle Rittenhouse), I'm not really sure this qualifies as vigilantism in support of the law or even to protect kids from predators. Honestly, this just strikes me as yet another wannabe influencer/YT 'star', only instead of 'restoring' old items, cleaning cars/yards/houses, edging over weird 'recipes', or popping pimples, this guy's schtick was 'going after pedophiles'.

    agent_flounder ,
    @agent_flounder@lemmy.one avatar

    Fixing the police is great but I don’t think that’s enough to reduce child rape.

    Find the causes—childhood abuse / neglect, most likely—and aggressively address these social ills. Find more reliable ways to rehabilitate and use it for those convicted. Among other things.

    kent_eh ,

    Just fix your goddamn police system

    Policing doesn’t prevent crimes.

    And it was never really intended to.

    hh93 ,

    Vigilantism also doesn’t - what’s your point?

    kent_eh ,

    I never suggested that it did.

    itsnicodegallo ,

    I went through a period where I binge watched a bunch of episodes of that show, but I read that it was difficult to convict some of the people they caught because adults posing as children to lure people into getting arrested is considered entrapment or something. Therefore, their method of catching them could be considered unlawful, leading to the case being thrown out.

    TheBlue22 ,

    Actual police has better stats than this dude, and police is garbage

    curiousPJ , in United Auto Workers strikes spread as 7,000 more workers at two plants join the picket line

    The automakers’ last known wage offers were around 20% over the life of a four-year contract, a little more than half of what the union has demanded. Other contract improvements, such as cost of living increases, restoration of defined-benefit pensions for newly hired workers and an end to wage tiers within the union are also on the table.

    What happened to the 32 hour work day? Disappointment in AP for not mentioning this.

    Etterra , in [USA] Massive emergency alert test scheduled to hit your phone on Wednesday. Here's what to know.

    Did anyone else read it as 4:20 for a second and think it was a joke at first? Just me? Okay.

    bobman ,

    Reddit humor

    buzz86us , (edited ) in Powerball jackpot skyrockets to massive $1.04 billion after no winner Saturday

    Why do they even bother announcing so much money when we all know taxes are like 40%… what even is the point of announcing such a high figure? Like the government is just paying themselves at this point so why bother taxing it. To provide further dilution you have to accept an annuity to even approach getting all the money.

    witx , (edited ) in [USA] Massive emergency alert test scheduled to hit your phone on Wednesday. Here's what to know.

    kwel. News communities over on lemmy are becoming as on Reddit: US news

    cley_faye , in Man who shot YouTuber on video at Dulles Town Center found not guilty by jury

    On one hand, this can be seen as a signal to allow shooting shitty people, which is bad for a plethora of reasons. On the other hand, shitty people.

    Kofu , (edited ) in Baltimore CEO, 26, was killed by a repeat offender who should have never been on the street, officials allege
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    This is a perfect case to point out that criminal can kill you and just get put back in prison. Your family will now forever, never be the same and told to forgive them… what a joke

    This type of criminal should be killed by the state to protect the civil part of society from a person like this.

    Literaly just remove them from life.

    Edit: Chad Doerman, decide for me on this case.

    iopq ,

    It costs just as much to go through the legal process of the death penalty as it does to imprison someone for life

    bobman ,

    It doesn’t need to.

    BraveSirZaphod ,
    @BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social avatar

    The alternative is accepting a significantly greater chance of the murdering innocent people.

    Which is generally a disturbing proposition to most people, but I won't pretend to know how empathetic you may or may not be.

    CarbonIceDragon ,
    @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social avatar

    A lot of that cost is legal costs, to my understanding, going through the process of the defendant exhausting their appeals and such. Cutting that cost would mean a faster process with less time and opportunity to uncover mistakes, which would lead to even more executions of the falsely convicted

    bobman ,

    So like… why should there be a different appeal process for capital punishment vs. anything else?

    Isn’t guilty guilty? Shouldn’t you have the same avenues of appeal, regardless of what the punishment is?

    If that’s the case, then wouldn’t it be just as expensive to go through the appeal process for capital punishment as anything else?

    BraveSirZaphod ,
    @BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social avatar

    There's a much more intense appeal process because you can't un-execute someone.

    If some evidence turns up a decade later after someone has been imprisoned for life that proves them to be innocent, while you can't give them that time back, you can release them and give them a hefty sum of many to at least attempt to repay what you've wrongly taken from them. But if you murder them, and they turn out to be innocent, then the government has murdered a completely innocent person for no reason, and nothing can be done to ever make that right.

    In a perfect legal system, I think most people would be okay with the death penalty for the most heinous crimes. But because death is a final judgement that cannot be reversed, it needs an absolutely perfect justice system. And er, I don't think anyone would accuse our justice system of being that.

    So given that, it's much much cheaper to just keep people locked up, and it saves us a lot of money. The only thing lost is a kind of moral righteousness and satisfaction in seeing criminals die, which I'd personally say is one of our less noble instincts anyway.

    CarbonIceDragon ,
    @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social avatar

    Honestly, I’d be against capital punishment even in an absolutely infallible justice system. If someone absolutely cannot ever be trusted to return to society no matter what rehabilitative options are available, then locking them up indefinitely still accomplishes this, while also resulting in less death overall

    BraveSirZaphod ,
    @BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social avatar

    I'd personally agree (and amusingly enough, so would the Catholic Church, though they weirdly don't talk about that as much as some other social issues).

    Ultimately though, that's more a question of moral principles, which are a lot harder to argue and less persuasive than simply talking about cold hard cash.

    bobman ,

    then locking them up indefinitely still accomplishes this

    The problem is an issue of cost. It’s impossible to imprison someone for decades at a lower rate than executing them.

    Executions are expensive, but they don’t need to be. He mentioned the “appeal process,” when I then said should be the same regardless of the punishment.

    bobman ,

    then the government has murdered a completely innocent person for no reason, and nothing can be done to ever make that right.

    So… wouldn’t the same thing occur for innocent people who die in prison? Nothing can ever be done to make it right. It’s the same as sentencing them to death, only much slower and more expensive.

    In a perfect legal system, I think most people would be okay with the death penalty for the most heinous crimes.

    I don’t know. I see most people against the death penalty saying that they don’t support the death penalty because of some lofty “the government has no right to kill its citizens” principle. Not really based on anything, but it ‘sounds nice’ so I guess people go for it.

    So given that, it’s much much cheaper to just keep people locked up, and it saves us a lot of money.

    It doesn’t need to be. It’s at least possible to execute people for a cheaper price than imprisoning them. We just choose not to do it.

    BraveSirZaphod ,
    @BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social avatar

    So… wouldn’t the same thing occur for innocent people who die in prison? Nothing can ever be done to make it right. It’s the same as sentencing them to death, only much slower and more expensive.

    The essential difference is the ability for new evidence to come to light that exonerates the prisoner.

    Simply put, there exist a non-trivial amount of people who were wrongfully imprisoned and later freed that would be dead now if we were looser with the death penalty. Some righteous bloodlust is not more valuable than their lives.

    More simply, if you were wrongfully imprisoned, you'd probably be quite thankful for how hard it is to actually apply the death penalty. It's really that simple.

    afraid_of_zombies ,

    Right the standards are too low already as we have seen death row inmates exonerated and your plan to lower the cost is to lower the standards even further.

    How about instead of trying to salvage a system that is clearly not working we abandon it. What is the absolute worst case scenario? A mass murderer piece of shit remains behind bars for that much longer. Instead of trying to lower the standards where the absolute worst case scenario is an innocent person gets killed.

    CarbonIceDragon ,
    @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social avatar

    I never said anything about that being a plan to lower costs or standards. My point was the opposite, that costs for capital punishment cannot be reasonably lowered without unacceptable sacrifices

    afraid_of_zombies ,

    Gotcha my bad

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    Doubt it mate. Give me the figures.

    iopq ,
    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    Okay so, do you want to read that article? You can just skip to the conclusion part and the fact check done in 2018, since the article is from 2016…

    -------------------------‐ Conclusion Was Dennis Davis correct when he claimed that death cases are more expensive than life in prison?

    A preliminary study by South Dakotans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, examining first-degree murder cases since 1985 that have resulted in a death sentence or life in prison, found that on average, legal costs in death penalty cases exceeded those in the other cases by $353,105.[24]

    The study was submitted to the State Affairs Committee of the South Dakota State Senate as part of the committee’s hearing on this year’s bill to abolish capital punishment.[3] The study was referenced by both proponents and opponents of the bill during the hearing, and its numbers were not refuted.

    While the legal costs were greater, information from the South Dakota Department of Correction shows the average cost of long-term incarceration for a prisoner sentenced to death is lower than that of a prisoner serving a life sentence. Because there are no extra expenses involved in housing condemned prisoners, and those prisoners are incarcerated for less time in state prison, the average savings per prisoner is $159,523.[19]

    Since the average savings in long-term incarceration is so much lower than the average additional legal costs, it appears Davis is correct about the cost of the death penalty versus life imprisonment in his home state.

    Because the costs associated with capital punishment have not been studied in every state that has the death penalty, and because most of the existing studies are limited in scope, it is not possible to state definitively that the death penalty is always more expensive than life in prison in the United States. But the studies of capital punishment conducted since the Furman decision do offer support for Davis’ claim.

    Fact Check- 1000 x 218 px.png Launched in October 2015 and active through October 2018, Fact Check by Ballotpedia examined claims made by elected officials, political appointees, and political candidates at the federal, state, and local levels. We evaluated claims made by politicians of all backgrounds and affiliations, subjecting them to the same objective and neutral examination process. As of 2023, Ballotpedia staff periodically review these articles to revaluate and reaffirm our conclusions. Please email us with questions.

    Soooooo basically, yeah more expensive in legal fees but literally cheaper because they don’t spend 40 years rotting in a hole.

    Also thats not what I’m talking about… pfft.

    iopq ,

    Did you read it? It costs 350K in legal fees to save 150K…

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    I did and the over cost out weights the initial cost… in the long run…

    iopq ,

    No, that 160K savings is incarceration costs, they don’t outweigh the TOTAL costs increase of 190K which are the legal costs minus the savings in incarceration

    Destraight ,

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    CarbonIceDragon ,
    @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social avatar

    And if someone is falsely convicted of this sort of crime and executed, that person’s family too will never be the same. And it is not possible to create a system in which criminals are successfully prosecuted but where false convictions cannot happen

    bobman ,

    Yeah, it’s better to imprison an innocent for life than to kill them.

    One is acceptable. The other isn’t.

    kurosawaa ,

    If new evidence exonerates a living person, they can be released. You cant bring an innocent dead person back to life.

    bobman ,

    Yeah, but that doesn’t mean every innocent person in prison for life is going to get exonerated before they die.

    The argument that “the death penalty should be abolished because some innocent people are convicted” doesn’t hold any water because innocent people can be convicted with life imprisonment as well and die before being found innocent. Does that mean we shouldn’t sentence people to life in prison?

    Which brings me back to my previous point: it’s acceptable to imprison innocent people for life, but not to execute them. At least in your minds.

    CarbonIceDragon ,
    @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social avatar

    It is not acceptable to punish an innocent person at all in my mind, but it is also not acceptable to sit by and do nothing about dangerous and malicious behavior, and so it becomes necessary to choose the lesser evil.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    Executions should only be reserved for the worst of the worst. The people who don’t care they murdered someone. A father that executes his 3 kids and is cool with that is a perfect example for it or a person who is a serial rapist who has now committed murder and NOT the legally ambiguous.

    “We don’t quite know if you did that crime so it will be life instead of execution.”

    “Oh you just wanted to kill 30 people because you hate your life, don’t worry the state will sort you out”

    quindraco ,

    The problem with letting the state kill citizens is the shockingly high rate at which it will inevitably kill innocent people.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    It should on be reserved for the worst of the worst. Not the people they are not sure of.

    Innocent people are being killed by people who have not conscious of guilt don’t care about laws we follow. Kill you just the same.

    Fix that fucking legal system and start a green revolution by deleting the worst criminls we have.

    loutr ,
    @loutr@sh.itjust.works avatar

    the people they are not sure of

    lol you mean you put people in prison when you’re not sure they’re guilty over there?

    “Yeah we’re not completely sure he murdered this woman so we’re not going to kill him, just put him in prison for 30 years in case he’s actually guilty.”

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    No,

    Executions should be reserved for the worst of the worst and not the legally ambiguous

    loutr ,
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    I don’t think “legally ambiguous” qualifies as “beyond a reasonable doubt” is my point.

    Kofu ,
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    Chad Doerman tell me what you decide.

    BraveSirZaphod ,
    @BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social avatar

    At that point, you have to try to draw some kind of distinguishing, which will take quite a lot of time, money, and effort, just to create a punishment that is barely ever used and accomplishes no meaningful advantage over life imprisonment except some sort of rather perverse moral satisfaction.

    In a perfect world, I'd agree that death for the most heinous case that have no legal ambiguity is essentially fine, but in reality, "not legally ambiguous" functionally does not exist, or at the least, it takes a lot of time and money to find it.

    Kofu , (edited )
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    Yeah, a perfect world. I agree. I just feel that people who have killed just because they want to,the people that kill their whole family or 30 kids in a school can’t just sit their and live, it might not be the best type of life but its still something their victims don’t have.

    Im mainly really only referring to cases like Chad Doerman. It is an execution case and its not the only one of its type.

    Also I forgot to add. This guy in OP’s post is also a candidate for execution. A serial rapist with a long history of his crime now guilty of murdering a inoccent person. I mean what the fuck did she do to deserve that? he gets to keep on breathing? Fuck that! the system is broken and people suck.

    BraveSirZaphod ,
    @BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social avatar

    The fact of the matter is that you either waste a huge amount of money and time in the process of rigorously defining that category of who deserves the death penalty, or you do literally anything else with those resources.

    And frankly, I don't think the biggest issue with the prison system right now is a small number of people who deserve death instead being alive, so there are plenty of other things that I'd rather invest in. For instance, the fact that security is so lax that being raped in prison is so common that people literally make casual jokes about it.

    Simply put, this world where the justice system just knows who deserves to die and never makes any mistakes ever does not exist, whether you like that or not.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    See you make it sound like its such a hard decisions. Rigorously define the death penalty? The fuck? You either meet the standard for execution or you don’t, see the case of Chad Doerman (my standard for the death penalty).

    Yes the prison system needs updating but im not talking about prisons.

    Not asking for that perfect world im asking for a world where a person that commits the most serious of crimes, no longer enjoy their life.

    BraveSirZaphod ,
    @BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social avatar

    And I'm saying that what you're wanting is a fairy tale and doesn't actually exist (or at the very least, costs a stupid amount of money and resources that could be much better used by doing literally anything else).

    I don't think we're gonna get much further here, so respectfully, I'm going to move on.

    Kofu , (edited )
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    Its not a fairy tale, what a fairy tale is you think you gonna get funding to stop people in prison from getting turned out. Not gonna happen.

    People don’t usually say “im done with this” but the ones that do are pretty pretentious. You think one thing, I think another, it conversion but your just being… whats the word im looking for? Oh yeah, a dick.

    Their is a dark disgusting part of human society that deserve to take dirt nap in my mind its a simple process for a case already litigated to the point that even a person in a coma could tell they did it with malicious intent.

    You are looking to be a noble person with only the most noble ideals, “I am noble for not letting this killer be himself killed”. How noble of you noble one.

    BraveSirZaphod ,
    @BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social avatar

    To be frank, you're sounding more and more like a child (and spelling like one, I might add), and I'm losing any interest in continuing to speak with you. If you think every stranger on the internet is obligated to spend an unlimited amount of time on a conversation that's devolving into playground insults, I'm afraid that I simply do not care if someone who can't grasp the idea that the world is a bit more complicated than they imagine thinking that I'm a pretentious dick.

    So with that, enjoy prattling on with someone who will listen to you and match your base level of maturity, because I am not one of them.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    People normally just stop talking but you out her making announcements.

    SCB ,

    I think we should start executing all the people with your views on criminal justice. Your kind are diseased and I don’t think you have a place in an ideal society.

    That’s obviously farcical to make a point, but do you see why people may not want to encourage the state monopoly on violence to so easily apply to whoever you want?

    Kofu ,
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    And my crime? A view point? When I’m talking about the worst of the worst. I think you need to really think about what you just said. Killing someone for expressing a view point? There is no place in society for a person such as yourself.

    Im not asking the government to have carte blanche on killing people for things like stealing from the store or even someone who killed someone in the heat of passion. Im talking about the real cunts.

    Stop being so ready to kill bro, calm your tits.

    SCB ,

    I believe, genuinely, that you’re a killer waiting for a bad enough day, solely because of the views you express here. You do not seem to be an emotionally mature person who lives in the real world, and I would absolutely classify you as a threat to society. I mean this with all sincerity - society would be better off without you and those that think like you do.

    This is sort of the inherent problem with the mindset you have - anyone can be classified as “the real cunts” because people don’t work the way you think they do. I would never act on the above because it is wrong, but the more you empower a blind system the more likely the net of “real cunts” will broaden, which is what you seem to be missing.

    'kill all the bad ones" becomes “wow there sure are a lot of bad ones” very quickly.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    You make it so personal, using your logic, I could say the same as you. Your immediate though is that I’m a “killer in waiting”? Thats a pretty intense stance you are taking their for nothing more than a conversation. You do understand how society works right? People have conversations about topics and you are so strongly aposse to me that you are ready to make what I say seem, like worse? Think about that. Hmmm I think their is a larger issue at play here.

    Whats up? I’m not being a dick I genuinely want to know why you use such strong words to outline your argument?

    We could share the same ideals on other topics but this is what you think defines me?

    I think you have other reasons to lash out. We disagree on this but im not calling you a killer for saying I should be killed for simply expressing a view point.

    Breath mate, relax.

    SCB ,

    You do understand how society works right?

    Yes this is a big part of why I am a near-abolitionist about prison and am utterly opposed to the death penalty.

    I think you have other reasons to lash out.

    I didn’t lash out. Perhaps you’re missing the meaning of “farcical?”

    I have calmly reiterated to you, with repeated examples, that these lines are blurry and being too gung-ho about the death penalty gets innocent people killed and opens the door to ever-further expansion.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    Yes, you lashed out dude. You labeled me a killer in waiting, seemed a little harsh. Im happy you have such strong feelings about it.

    I am not asking for lines to be blured and I am apposed to innocent people executed or even falsely sentenced to prison, put there by courrpt individuals looking to close the case, get a promotion, etc.

    The innocence project an institution i belive in but we shouldn’t have to rely on it to catch a problem rather than fixing the courrption that leads to false convictions or executes based on flimsy evidence.

    But in my mind, and call it toxic if you want but, I feel really strongly that a person like Chad Doerman the person that shot his 3 toddler aged kids on his front law while their mother lay over them to try save them and got wounded in the process he was calm and just showed absolutely no remorse he just end 3 kids live and is allowed to live, call me names for not wanting him or btk or green river or the golden state being alive.

    You calmly did nothing, you just went straight into “kill mode” without even having a decent conversation. Its hard to gauge a person on the Internet but I just find people are super on edge, ready to hurt someone in a flurry of text. I don’t hate you or anything, infact. I hope you have a nice day\night.

    SCB ,

    Fun fact, Doerman lived down the street from me.

    MuhammadJesusGaySex ,

    The death penalty shouldn’t be a thing. The amount of innocent people it is acceptable to execute in order to catch the “bad guys” is always zero.

    Our whole system needs an overhaul, but it starts with the general public acknowledging that prisoners are people too. Even the really heinous ones. We need to realize that and act accordingly. We need to help these people be better, and if we can’t help them be better. Then they need a safe place away from society.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    Oh yeah, cheers… Muhammad jesus gay sex. 👍

    negativeyoda ,

    It should on be reserved for the worst of the worst. Not the people they are not sure of.

    How is that different than the system right now?

    We’re treating the symptoms, not the cause. There will always be shit people out there, but this late stage capitalism hellscape in tandem with incarceration which is punative rather than focused on treatment makes for a really fucked up society where as soon as someone fucks up, they’re basically done for life. This outcome was tragically predictable

    I guess killing all of them is one solution, but what the fuck?

    Kofu ,
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    It would be hard to do that with the current system. Which means it would require a complete overhaul of the justice system, which I would argue is something that is desperately needed. There are too many corrupt individuals on all level of the system that needs correcting.

    Look at BTK he is just sitting there in prison, just chilling allowed to live while his victims are not.

    I guess I’m riled up but the Chad Doerman documents I watch because, 3 kids man, 3 kids that did nothing dead and he did not give one shit. His wife was wounded as she lay trying to protect them right there on the front lawn. Maybe its retribution i wish but I just know why he is allowed to live.

    Fixing our judicial system is arguably easier to fix than the human condition. We need to help people out of poverty, we need to give people their basic needs, they need education, heathcare and a whole host of things, housing, jobs, the list goes on. I would say if people had access to proper service and live reasonable life will eliminate a lot of crime. Can we do that?

    FooBarrington ,

    It should on be reserved for the worst of the worst. Not the people they are not sure of.

    Do you think you’re the first person that thought of this? Do you really think the justice system is too stupid to say “hey, we should be sure before we use the death penalty”?

    No matter what system you build, it will always kill some innocent people, because no system works perfectly. How is that acceptable to you?

    Innocent people are being killed by people who have not conscious of guilt don’t care about laws we follow. Kill you just the same.

    I’d rather be innocent and be killed by a murderer than by the state. Killing even more innocent people won’t help.

    Fix that fucking legal system and start a green revolution by deleting the worst criminls we have.

    Oh, we just have to fix the legal system, why didn’t we think of that before?

    Or we could delete you and be done with it. Sounds good?

    Kofu ,
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    You could if you wanted to but im just saying something and thats not really worth the death penalty, or is it?

    So we just have to accept the system as it is and not try to improve it? Oh boo thats also a very unoriginal idea, almost all ideas are unoriginal when it come to punishments.

    Not just the legal system but society, we live in a society that really does not care about the people lesser in society, literaly try be a homeless guy and get away with a crime where a rich person can just pay the bond and be out!

    Im happy you would rather be killed by a stranger than the state, especially crazy if you were innocent. but, I would argue that the person that killed you, if it was in cold blood, did it with malicious intent had a history of murder, killed you in a mass shooting with no remorse, I would protest the shit out of them being executed rather than spending life in prison. I know you’d probably be apposed to me doing so.

    FooBarrington ,

    You could if you wanted to but im just saying something and thats not really worth the death penalty, or is it?

    Actually no, I think people that like the death penalty are pretty much murderers in waiting. Why wait until you kill someone innocent?

    So we just have to accept the system as it is and not try to improve it? Oh boo thats also a very unoriginal idea, almost all ideas are unoriginal when it come to punishments.

    Where exactly is the improvement when the state kills even more innocent people? Seems to me an improvement would be fewer innocent people put to death.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    Ha ha ha that halrious. Because I want people like btk dead, I’m a murderer in waiting, how’d you figure that scooter?

    FooBarrington ,

    Normal people don’t want to kill innocent people just to kill some people they think deserve death.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    Please just look at this it a debate. youtu.be/XltuOU1A8Sk?si=HgX4ZyMDXvSB1WZi

    FooBarrington ,

    Not interested, thank you.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    retributivist, just find out what that means.

    FooBarrington ,

    I know what retributivism is, and it perfectly fits into what you’ve written so far. Now explain to me: why shouldn’t we be preemptively retributive with people like you?

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    Pre-emptily retributitve?

    You want to equate my belief, that the punishment should fit the crime by saying “a killer deserves to face death to right the wrong” to being a killer my self? Then explain to you why you shouldn’t have that view point? Pre-emptively?

    Just making sure I understand you properly.

    FooBarrington ,

    You want to equate my belief, that the punishment should fit the crime by saying “a killer deserves to face death to right the wrong” to being a killer my self?

    Everyone wants a punishment that fits the crime, but we disagree what punishment fits what crime. You want the state to kill people who you think deserve to be killed, but you also know that this will lead to innocent people being killed by the state, which is acceptable to you. How does that not make you complicit in the murder of innocents?

    Then explain to you why you shouldn’t have that view point? Pre-emptively?

    Why you shouldn’t have what view point? The one that leads to innocent people being killed? Because it leads to innocent people being killed. Generally, any view point that leads to innocent people being killed is one you shouldn’t have.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    You know, if you just watched that video. You’d understand my view point and it also has the opposite opinion, its both arguments give by two people who are more able to explain it better than me. Im basically trying to understand it myself and I try to explain it with some confidence with every other person on lemmy.

    The crime is? He kills his 3 kids. The punishment? Death, in this case. deserved and proportional, in my opinion, in this case!

    Btk, same opinion. Greene River, same opinion.

    You keep saying innocent people will be killed and you believe i want that to happen. I do not. you say “its inevitable” and I will say, that if you kill someone on false charges, it is wrong and it should only be applied to the cases I have stated previously, not a power just given out willy nilly.

    I’m not actively calling for an extremely low bar death penalty justice system, I say, eye for an eye. Killed his kids, delete him from life and this other guy from OPs post the guy rapes and kills a woman, 26, no remorse, killing is like brushing teeth, delete him from our society, and because I belive that I’m a potential murderer? Geeze man, thats depression as a conclusion. mountains, mole hills or something something.

    FooBarrington ,

    But the part that you don’t seem to comprehend is simply that no matter how high you set the standards, you will kill innocent people. What if somehow evidence comes out that shows you got the wrong guy instead of the one who kills 3 kids? You’re going to say “you just have to be sure”, but there is literally no way. Nobody in the history of humanity has figured out how to do what you’re proposing without killing innocent people, and I’m pretty sure nobody ever will.

    So there are invariably only two options:

    • kill people and innocents
    • don’t kill people and don’t kill innocents

    Unless you’ve found a magic solution that 100% ensures infallibility in the justice system, there is no third option. Understand now?

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    The guy is on video, he confessed to the police that it was premeditated, there were multiple witnesses. Where is this innocent person you keeping talking about being killed? I would argue its the fucking kids. I know you are talking over the whole judicial system but im arguing its these cases specifically.

    I think you really enjoy telling other who they are, incorrectly I might add, think im a murderer in waiting? I would say you like to feel your superiority of the moral standard that retribution is equal to being a murderer yourself. Thats what I call delusional.

    You be out here defending the lifes of the most disgusting humans on this planet and you think I’m the murderer? I call you an enabler, you would allow them to become “rehabilitated” in a system that relies on recidivism and just go on to kill again. Maybe you should think about all the people who left the prison just to kill again, their victim lay at your feet because you, obviously that is not true, but its your stupid logic.

    FooBarrington ,

    The guy is on video, he confessed to the police that it was premeditated, there were multiple witnesses. Where is this innocent person you keeping talking about being killed? I would argue its the fucking kids. I know you are talking over the whole judicial system but im arguing its these cases specifically.

    And even in cases like this mistakes have been made before. But you obviously can’t accept that, as your whole position would fall apart, so you instead talk about this way that will surely work that somehow nobody else came up with.

    Also, don’t act like killing a murderer somehow brings back the people he murdered. The only difference between locking them up for life and killing them is that the earlier leaves you the option of freeing them if it’s proven your innocent, whereas the latter fulfills your bloodlust.

    I think you really enjoy telling other who they are, incorrectly I might add, think im a murderer in waiting? I would say you like to feel your superiority of the moral standard that retribution is equal to being a murderer yourself. Thats what I call delusional.

    Mate, have fun calling me delusional, I don’t care. It’s pretty obvious you’re a young kid stumbling upon these philosophical ideas for the first time, and you simply can’t accept that the “simple and obvious” solution you’re proposing is flawed. But since it feels right to you, it can’t be wrong! And that’s what I call bloodlust.

    You be out here defending the lifes of the most disgusting humans on this planet and you think I’m the murderer? I call you an enabler, you would allow them to become “rehabilitated” in a system that relies on recidivism and just go on to kill again. Maybe you should think about all the people who left the prison just to kill again, their victim lay at your feet because you, obviously that is not true, but its your stupid logic.

    See, perfect example. I’m not “defending the lives of the most disgusting humans on the planet”, I’m defending the lives of the innocent people your quest for revenge will kill as collateral damage. Because, spoiler alert, locking up a terrible murderer for the rest of their life will not allow them to murder. But you don’t care that innocent people will die.

    Kofu ,
    @Kofu@lemmy.ml avatar

    Show me the mistake in such a case as that? Please id love to see your fictitious case because if you show me cases where the person had a shit lawyer and died because of insufficient council or evidence that had been withheld by the prosecution or bias by the judge or jury based of false information then I would argue that that is a failure of the system through courrupt individual that uses it in inappropriate ways its not intended to be used and not proportional justice that i seek.

    Yet again you make a stupid claim “like its gonna bring them back” are you dense? Are you purposely being obtuse? Not sure if you are or not.

    Blood lust? Someone call the hyperbole police on this person and yes you are delusion equating my belief in proportional justice as a blood lust for the innocence imma bout to slay? That i would argue is simplistic. Oh so just because I found out what the idea behind my belief is all of a sudden im a petulant immature child?

    You are the child in this point, labeling people casting your ideals on them without a serious conversation? Thats your immaturity, not understanding why a person would prefer their child murderer to not exist (and again specific to this case) is a perfectly rational response.

    You literally are defending their ability to avoid proportional justice so they can either be “rehabilitated” to leave and possibly commit a much worse crime or spend vasts amounts of money to keep housing the worst people like some macabre collection to leer at.

    I seek retribution not revenge. I seek a proportional sentence for the crime convicted of.

    This bit got me the most lol Because, spoiler alert, locking up a terrible murderer for the rest of their life will not allow them to murder. But you don’t care that innocent people will die.

    Ahh yeah they do, people with life sentences don’t care if they get time added, they gonna die there any way… very very simple view there

    And if you were paying any attention before you would understand that NO I DO care if innocent people die.

    Kofu ,
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    Just so you know, I am that first guy. not the actual person but, what he embodies retributivism.

    JustZ ,
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    Moron.

    Kofu ,
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    Yeah fuck you too dick hole

    Fleur__ ,
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    “We should kill people” - rational person

    middlemanSI , in Family of 8-year-old girl killed by police reach $11 million settlement

    See the problem is wording. Killed or murdered?

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    “we help in thoughts and prayers, not dollars and cents” - GOP and Supreme Court probably

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