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[Kulindahr]

And because evil exists.

True enough.

Whether we call it mental illness or evil, there are plenty of people who are fully functional adults, yet harbor murder in their hearts, and care not a whit for fellow human beings.

And many of them control half the wealth in the country.

We should stop pretending it's humane to incarcerate them,

Or at least to do so the way we presently do, which turns jails and prisons into "Crime University".

or that society benefits from their rehabilitation

Rehabilitation is a pretend aspect of prisons that politicians use to justify harsh rhetoric in order to gain campaign funds from the wealthy.
It can be done, but it would mean a total overhaul of our justice system -- which would be expensive but ultimately worth it (I read a paper recently that argued that making the U.S. prison system like that in the Scandinavian countries would reduce criminal recidivism by a third -- something worth a few tens of billions of dollars a year, to me); our prison system causes more crime than it prevents.

 

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Seriously?

Holy crap.

 

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Much better than the adult Trump on hands and knees -- Trump really is little more than a petulant spoiled child who never had to face consequences for actions.

Seems to me one good reason to require national service, military or otherwise, for all elected officials -- the military and similar organizations do a decent job of letting people learn that there are consequences.

 

[NotHardUp1]

So the people at the Oscars deserve greater protection?

The last time I checked, the Academy was not a government enterprise. The celebrities present respresent billions of dollars of income. If their personal security system, or the local Hollywood cops protect them, makes no difference. They drive revenue, so they warrant security.

The issue isn't who deserves what.

Children should not be marched around from class to class with armed guards like they were in the Tel Aviv airport, or inmates. You're buying into Trump's "solution" which was to make schools armored fortresses. It's the NRA solution. It's the wrong solution, from wrong thinking.

Which won't take effect for a good dozen years.

Neither did public education until it started. No matter how armed you make a school, it will not prevent determined killers. It's literally not possible.

And selfishness that leaves kids feeling abandoned in their own homes and hated in their schools.

Bullying is as old as mankind. I'm thankful to live in an era that is beginning to address it. When I was a kid, the teachers just thought you should toughen up.

I don't know abandonment. Mother left us several times as we were inconvenient to her, but we had grandparents who weren't trashy. When living with Mothter, I was thankful for the times she was gone.

 

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Cathartic.

Where are the Democrats with this fire?

 

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Children should not be marched around from class to class with armed guards

Making shit up again, I see. No one has ever suggested such a thing.

 

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If that's real, I'm impressed -- though not extremely surprised, since it's in the UCMJ that unconstitutional orders are not to be obeyed, and discrimination on the basis of anything that isn't related to the ability to carry out duties is unconstitutional.
Now, can we have a class action suit, the U.S. military v Donald Trump?

 

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[MARMITE]

“He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.” - Los Angeles Fire Department Assistant Chief Kristine Larson.

Here's an amusing video based on that quote.

 

[rareboy]

And lots more fun on Babylon Bee here:

Babylon Bee | Fake News You Can Trust

Babylon Bee is the definitive source of fake news you can trust.

babylonbee.com

 

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