I hope this is ironic. I use Lemmy because Reddit blocks mobile usage and there aren’t good clients available. Sick of having to wade through bullshit extremist takes like this on every thread.

Sure I’m progressive, and despise the rioters, but calling for their deaths is insane. Nobody should support or advocate for state sponsored violence and execution. Ever.

Texas is literally in the process of murdering an autistic man for false science. Constant extrajudicial killings defines our reckoning with policing. How idiotic and tone deaf do you have to be to call for an even more punitive system, and advocate for hangings of all things?

They are getting multi year sentences in our torturous prisons, where upon release they will be marked with a felony charge and never able to work any good job or live any kind of good life again. That is sufficient, if not objectively excessive.