Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: March 29, 2024, 1:15 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
The United States now enters the phase of mass executions.
#11
RE: The United States now enters the phase of mass executions.
Hard to see how it could be further worsened given that this has been a steady and very accurate criticism of the us (and especially from russia) since..oh, idk, ww2? It's a sad state of affairs when people in nothereistans lives depend on whether some nutter in another nothereistani country can be convinced that the us is the great satan.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Reply
#12
RE: The United States now enters the phase of mass executions.
On the brighter side, a few states will vote to ban slavery in November. That's right, slave labor is still technically legal at the federal level in the US, so long as you are in prison. We can only hope that as many states as possible decide in their own state constitutions to nullify that part.
[Image: nL4L1haz_Qo04rZMFtdpyd1OZgZf9NSnR9-7hAWT...dc2a24480e]
Reply
#13
RE: The United States now enters the phase of mass executions.
Doubtful, states like arizona depend on prison labor to provide services. It's become too big to fail.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Reply
#14
RE: The United States now enters the phase of mass executions.
The word "mass" is what sticks in the craw.

Reply
#15
RE: The United States now enters the phase of mass executions.
(October 22, 2022 at 11:09 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The word "mass" is what sticks in the craw.

Bingo lolly. When the Saudis behead 81 people within a few hours, THAT’S a ‘mass execution’.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
Reply
#16
RE: The United States now enters the phase of mass executions.
A single execution is one too many. Not since 2015 has there been this many executions in one month. It is shameful.
Reply
#17
RE: The United States now enters the phase of mass executions.
(October 23, 2022 at 6:40 am)Jehanne Wrote: A single execution is one too many.  Not since 2015 has there been this many executions in one month.  It is shameful.

I agree - I’m not supporting capital punishment (you’ll never see me do that). I’m simply objecting to your choice of adjective.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
Reply
#18
RE: The United States now enters the phase of mass executions.
(October 23, 2022 at 6:40 am)Jehanne Wrote: A single execution is one too many.  Not since 2015 has there been this many executions in one month.  It is shameful.

No one is arguing for or against the policy of the death penalty. It's being pointed out that your exaggeration does your point no favors. Your title is a bit click-baity to me.

Reply
#19
RE: The United States now enters the phase of mass executions.
(October 23, 2022 at 9:15 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(October 23, 2022 at 6:40 am)Jehanne Wrote: A single execution is one too many.  Not since 2015 has there been this many executions in one month.  It is shameful.

No one is arguing for or against the policy of the death penalty. It's being pointed out that your exaggeration does your point no favors. Your title is a bit click-baity to me.

Right now there are approximately 2500 human beings on the various death rows across the United States, both at the state level with 50 or so individuals who are on federal and military death rows.  Given the state of SCOTUS, there is nothing that is preventing these individuals from being executed, except, of course, time.  I suppose that one could argue over the adjective "mass", but, to me, when a society is executing multiple individuals per day, such falls into the "mass executions" category.  Unlike scales of obesity, I must admit that there is no universal standard that can be appealed to, except, to say, that of the several dozen or so Western-like democracies, only the United States & Japan are executing prisoners, and with Japan, they perform their hangings during the last week of the year, usually, a few days before New Year's Eve.  But, as we are talking about living, sentient human beings, I believe the adjective in my OP to be an appropriate one.  I think that it is disgusting to execute a human being, but to have more than one execution on the same day is even more despicable.  I realize that the linguists at Merriam Webster may not agree with me on this one but the "special circumstances" makes the adjective, I believe, an appropriate one.
Reply
#20
RE: The United States now enters the phase of mass executions.
2 executions in one day in a country is not 'mass' anything.

The title is indeed misleading.
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Trump Ally Calls for Public Executions ZoomerTrumper 1 149 February 26, 2024 at 11:52 am
Last Post: arewethereyet
  Trump Ally Calls for Public Executions ZoomerTrumper 1 158 February 26, 2024 at 11:39 am
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
  Why don't Southern states outlaw interracial marriage? Jehanne 12 1086 July 26, 2022 at 7:55 am
Last Post: h4ym4n
  The United States and the growing divide zwanzig 73 3317 September 24, 2021 at 10:42 pm
Last Post: TaraJo
Information The United States has not spent $ 300 million a day on war in Afghanistan. alextruesay 60 3016 August 26, 2021 at 3:35 pm
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  Seven states bar people with a criminal record from receiving victim's compensation Angrboda 34 2222 September 23, 2018 at 5:16 am
Last Post: viocjit
  So I guess since the GOP is in power now they really don't give a fuck about this now GODZILLA 3 1219 June 29, 2018 at 7:36 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  Does the media love mass shooting? Coveny 9 1268 February 24, 2018 at 3:12 am
Last Post: CapnAwesome
  Impeachment process in the United States Joods 18 3168 October 31, 2017 at 8:15 pm
Last Post: henryp
  44 States Minimalist 35 9910 July 7, 2017 at 2:02 pm
Last Post: GUBU



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)