@DataRepublican [Chorus]
Oh, we've got big balls, we've got big balls
We've got big balls, dirty big balls
He's got big balls and she's got big balls
But we've got the biggest balls of them all
Oh, we've got big balls, we've got big balls
I am getting lots of incoming questions about the public execution of Nidal Hasan, mostly because I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.
My position is simple: Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized. They are the ultimate example of the state's monopoly on violence, and the only way to keep that from running out of control is to confront voters with the trade they have made every single time, that they might have appropiate confidence or revulsion in the institution.
This is not new thinking. George Washington thought the same. The way we have shifted from hanging to firing squads to doctors quietly injecting chemicals that send our worst gently off to sleep is awful and dystopian, a total short-circuiting of important feedback mechanisms. It makes needless executions more likely, not less so. People who demean this as barbaric or yucky miss the whole point. It doesn't somehow become torture or inhumane (as the UN is suddenly claiming) just because we decline to hide the act behind a curtain.
And then there are those who suggest any revel in the death of those who truly deserve it is an indicator of a broken or diseased mind. To the contrary. It is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order. That it has not been done here in 60 years is an indictment in and of itself.
And that is without even getting into the fact that men were not hung for stealing horse, but that horses may not be stolen.
"I would to God that one of the most attrocious in each State was hung in Gibbets, up on a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man, who can build his greatness upon his Country’s ruin."
- George Washington, 1778
@SalimForVA AMERICANS STAND WITH ICE!
PSA to Mamdani as well as all criminals, civilians and aliens: Stop resisting arrest, disobeying lawful orders, and getting into violent interactions with law enforcement and you won’t be shot.
🚨WOW!!!
Students at a Georgia High School pranked their principal by staging a "fake fight" at school and calling the Principal to break it up...
...as he rushes in to pull the students apart, they all started singing him Happy Birthday
He's so revealed and happy.
@ShaykhSulaiman Go to any inner city in America and start throwing rocks at people and see how many it takes to get shot. Hint: not many, you might not even get one off.
@IndiaObserver23 Clean up your fucking rivers. Pick up your fucking trash. It’s mostly that not that anyone just randomly has a problem with your “race”.
@RenzTom Idk but it’s retarded to fund Ukraine and buy oil from Russia at the same time. Yet that’s what Europe has been doing this whole time and now us too. It’s not fair to the young men on both sides being funded to die for nothing.
@NormaJTorres You don’t have any rights endowed by this country if you don’t even have the right to legally be here. We don’t grant constitutional rights to the world. We believe in rights that the government exists to protect, that applies to our nation and our citizens.
@RadioFreeTom You’re delusional if you think most of us wouldn’t talk like this is we were Billionaires that were also in positions of political power. He has f-you money and the support of the patriotic half the country. Exactly why people love and respect him.
@eu_eeas Why? Being forced to feed and care for the worst criminals while also protecting the rest of the society from them is not justice. In some cases death is justice.
@AdamKinzinger No one cares what you watch or don’t watch. Mr Rachel is ok for toddlers and has a toddler level understanding of geopolitics. A public execution is justice but not a requirement to watch or appropriate for everyone.
@Pontifex Then use the Vatican to isolate feed and care for all the dangerous criminals not fit to be free in our society. God has never been against justice and to make someone responsible to care for these criminals while keeping everyone else safe from them is not justice.