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20. WTF ?!?!?!

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Thu Jun 9, 2022, 11:10 AM

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The new court's absurd inhumanity: To preserve procedure, an innocent man must die [View all] ck4829 Jun 2022 OP

Sounds like authoritarianism to me mucifer Jun 2022 #1

Why yes, yes it does ck4829 Jun 2022 #2

And fascism, and sadism, and intellectual laziness, and belligerent ignorance, Dark n Stormy Knight Jun 2022 #33

Now we have our very own Dreyfus Affair. Hugin Jun 2022 #3

Yep ck4829 Jun 2022 #5

WTF? spanone Jun 2022 #4

This a good podcast anyway, but they covered this: Volaris Jun 2022 #28

The hypocrisy of the decision is right out in the open nuxvomica Jun 2022 #6

Oh, so now they're advocates of procedure? Baitball Blogger Jun 2022 #7

Selective processing is part of that ilk's thinking. Look at the COVID vaccine v. abortion AZLD4Candidate Jun 2022 #16

✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ n/t msfiddlestix Jun 2022 #8

if a person is executed and later shown to be innocent moonshinegnomie Jun 2022 #9

It's a primitive sacrificial scapegoat mentality. They don't care if he's Gaugamela Jun 2022 #10

Oh yes, the parallels between sacrifice though history and execution are stunning to say the least ck4829 Jun 2022 #11

Yep. Same with the right's view of school shootings. It's child sacrifice. Gaugamela Jun 2022 #12

If the Right takes over, this "experiment" is over. AZLD4Candidate Jun 2022 #14

This guy said the quiet part out loud: Gaugamela Jun 2022 #17

Well, sure, but the reason why Bill Clinton signed this law... Effete Snob Jun 2022 #21

True enough, but the OP refers to the recent SCOTUS decision Gaugamela Jun 2022 #26

No, I am not referring to the 1994 crime bill Effete Snob Jun 2022 #29

Like you, I've been a DU member since 2004, and the reason I have such a low post Gaugamela Jun 2022 #31

The problem is indeed the death penalty Effete Snob Jun 2022 #32

'Better to let ten guilty free than let one innocent suffer' - paraphrasing Blackstone AZLD4Candidate Jun 2022 #13

If it were in a civilized state DFW Jun 2022 #15

Here's a list of those who voted for it Effete Snob Jun 2022 #19

I agree. Haggard Celine Jun 2022 #24

This is UNACCEPTABLE. I am outraged that an INNOCENT MAN may die. iluvtennis Jun 2022 #18

WTF ?!?!?! TeamProg Jun 2022 #20

this isn't a problem, for the repukes, this is a solution. Javaman Jun 2022 #22

Bill Clinton was not a Republican Effete Snob Jun 2022 #23

Not many seem to want to dumbcat Jun 2022 #27

Truth is sometimes inconvenient Effete Snob Jun 2022 #30

K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 #25

K&R Solly Mack Jun 2022 #34

This court is illegitimate, plain and simple. DemocraticPatriot Jun 2022 #35

Indeed ck4829 Jun 2022 #36

How fucked up is this country? edhopper Jun 2022 #37