America is a country of violent prudes. There’s a reason we rate violent movies lower than movies with “sexual content”.

Well, they need to be shown the consequences of what happens if you do gay things, of course.

If Trump gets back in and they implement that “Project 2025” where they plan to fire 50k government workers and replace them with far right wingnuts, I can envision such a future. Alito just signaled that they’re not satisfied with just overturning Roe, he’s gunning to overturn Obergefel. I wonder which states it’ll be illegal for me to exist in, soon.

Bunch of psychopaths

Yes, Christianity is an apocalyptic death cult.

The flaw in your logic is that you expect the GOP to have any amount of consistency in their own logic.

The foot note on that page links to this interview from 2019. The only comment in the interview about the death penalty is. “I don’t agree with the president on the death penalty, I don’t agree with him on marijuana, I don’t agree with him on Saudi Arabia, there are things I don’t agree with, but that doesn’t mean I should be less enthused about what he’s doing to revitalize the country.” Trump is, and was at the time, very much pro-death penalty.

There is no detail at all or follow up question and I can’t find any other source suggesting that Kirk used to be anti-death penalty. Either this was a misstatement or he has completely reversed his position. It’s not something he is saying facetiously. You can see the clip here.

Why does the order of events matter so much to you?

I guarantee this comment gets reported because Lemmy can’t sarcasmm

Bro that’s what they want. These people are axe murders who want to find a way to do it without being shunned by society.

Think “what would ancient rome do?” that’s what they really want, they are fascists.

They could do that knife-making show for guillotine blades. You really don’t want to get the screw-up contestant when it’s your turn on the block.

“Are you doing your part?”

youtu.be/EKHme9MvMx0?t=48s

Hehe.

“This is television, that’s all it is. It has nothing to do with people, it’s to do with ratings! For fifty years, we’ve told them what to eat, what to drink, what to wear… for Christ’s sake, Ben, don’t you understand? Americans love television. They wean their kids on it. Listen. They love game shows, they love wrestling, they love sports and violence. So what do we do? We give 'em what they want! We’re number one, Ben, that’s all that counts, believe me. I’ve been in the business for thirty years.”

That’s exactly the goal

The irony is that these people always talk about “small government” and go on and on about “freedom”.

But yeah, let’s have public executions and have children watch them…SMH.

I mean, petty crime is almost non-existent in Saudi Arabia. Their system of punishment is horrible, but it seems to be effective in at least some manner. I wonder if regular and public reminders of the punishment for certain crimes would do more of a deterrent than just the threat of years of incarceration.