• JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    8 个月前

    At least I can agree with Donnie on 1 thing. People choose to do drugs and kill themselves. Just let them do it. It’s not like they would harm the US healthcare system.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    8 个月前

    This pardon seems justified to me. Nobody deserves “double life imprisonment plus 40 years, without the possibility of parole”, as far as I’m concerned. Yes, literally nobody. And here it’s even worse than that: the sentence was explicitly designed to be exemplary, i.e., to frighten others. That is just retribution, vengeance, posing as justice. America should be better than that.

    I’m aware that this guy probably ordered two murders. The probably is important.

        • mel ♀@jlai.lu
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          8 个月前

          Happend in France a months ago. When there were riots after a cop killed a boy in the poor suburbs, one of our dear ministers (/s) asked for exemplary sentences and some of them took months of prison for packs of rice or energy cans…

          • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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            8 个月前

            Not at all. Of course, I’m not American so my starting point is not that people are locked up for years for the tiniest offense

            • Vardøgor@mander.xyz
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              8 个月前

              congrats, that’s not my starting point either, (or most Americans’…) thanks. just don’t exactly find leading the Holocaust as “the tiniest offense”

              • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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                8 个月前

                Did you know that the Norwegian shooter (who killed a very large number of unarmed young people with an automatic weapon in 2011) is already 2/3 of the way thru his sentence?

                This was my point. Americans didn’t understand this and still don’t. Cultures have different conceptions of what purpose is served by punishment.