Because he’s a sadist and thinks it makes him look strong to murder people.
It plays to the base. It distracts the base from its actual problems. It attempts to scare those opposed. If people really protest and riot, martial law and no elections.
Canned hunt cruelty for these gangsters that would “shoot them themselves” because they’re such badasses.
Why? Because he’s a child-fucking pedophile and he wants you to forget it.
It’s a message. Follow his orders or “get shot”. His hold on all of us right now is all bent on us being afraid enough to not do anything to him and his cult. That may change here very shortly thanks to the resistance in Spain, France, and Brazil.
Soon he will taste his own medicine.
I’m surprised he’s not trying to introduce the garotte.
Why now? Because conservatives love to go backwards.
Did a South Carolina firing squad deliberately try to miss a man’s heart during an execution last month to prolong his death?
That’s what attorneys for Stephen Stanko, the next prisoner slated to die, contend.
I mean, ugh.
We need to stop calling these fuckers conservatives. Conservative implies that you are maintaining the status quo. These bastards are straight-up regressives.
Maintaining what status quo?
Don’t worry! History has an answer! It’s the divine right of kings!
Conservative implies that you are maintaining the status quo.
No, Conservatism protects the unaccountable privilege of the upper class. That’s the only status quo they maintain. They’ll tear down anything else, no matter how long it’s existed. And it has been that way since the term “conservative” was coined. It was a reaction against Enlightenment ideas that rule of law should apply to everyone, and that those holding positions of power should be appointed by merit and held accountable to the people. It has always favored sinecures, nepotism, royally granted monopolies, bribery and obfuscated ownership.
The great British politician Tony Benn distilled five questions that should be asked of those in power in order to maintain a functioning democracy:
- What power have you got?
- Where did you get it from?
- In whose interest do you exercise it?
- To whom are you accountable?
- How can we get rid of you?
You will notice that conservatives will always react aggressively when asked any of these questions.
No it supposed to mean maintain the status quo. And don’t.be stupid and think the left doesn’t do the exact same thing about the upper class.
No it supposed to mean maintain the status quo.
Look at the enclosure of the commons in the UK for a counterexample. A centuries-long tradition of common ownership of grazing land was overturned because seizing that land enriched already wealthy landowners (represented by the Conservative Party). In other words, the status quo went out the window when it conflicted with the interests of the elite.
The same could be said of changes to trade policy over the years, in both the UK and the US, where contradictory positions (protectionism for a while, then free trade) were adopted depending on which made a buck for the rich.
And don’t.be stupid and think the left doesn’t do the exact same thing about the upper class.
You don’t know anything about my intelligence, and you have no idea what “the left” means when you trot out that weak whatabout.
HA HA BOTH SIDES
I am opposed to the death penalty, but as far as methods go, firing squad seems more honest than lethal injection. It looks like killing rather than dressing it up like a medical procedure.
Hitting them on the head with a sledgehammer is honest as well. That doesn’t make it humane.
Killing people in cold blood is not humane no matter how you do it.
I’m against the death penalty, but obviously if it’s going to happen, the guillotine is the only acceptable method. Everything else is either unreliable, cruel, or both.
The guillotine looks less humane when we consider those executed looking around, blinking, and responding to external stimuli for a minute afterward.
