• JungleJim@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    If I had meme skills I’d make a Simpsons “Don’t make me tap the sign” macro, and the sign would have the cruel and unusual punishments clause on it.

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      1 year ago

      Some people deserve it. Of course if it were legal, many who didn’t would get it.

      Though it being illegal doesn’t stop the cops from doing it. Just look up all the news about people showing up at the ER instead of booking when arrested, the literal torture warehouse uncovered recently, and the general fascistic nature of US cops… Not even talking about Guantanamo or the military.

      If you want the constitution to be adhered to, you already have work to do.

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        1 year ago

        Well yeah, duh. But that doesn’t mean we stop trying to do better. People are saying “do the right thing”, and you’re saying “people already fucked up though” like it’s some sort of, I don’t know, excuse to not care about doing the right thing this time. Maybe, just maybe, if we can prove even the highest level crooks go to jail, we can shake the idea that “In America that there’s no point in doing anything because it’s already shit.”.

        I’m not saying let the fucker free. Lock him up til he dies. Prison rations. Solitary confinement. But if we torture, and excuse it because THIS TIME WE’RE SURE, and “it must be alright because the bad guys also tortured”, then we’ve only made a more torturous union.