But in the US, the average reading comprehension stopped around 6th grade. I don’t think a good chunk of Americans under 35 have more than a VERY passing knowledge of Mussolini (and they probably confuse half of it with Stalin)

Fuck Ivan Moody, i loved motograter’s sound but the five finger death punch turn and then subsequent military fallatiating killed him for me

Danny Trejo describes being on his films as a kind of family reunion for a lot of Latino actors and actresses

Removing them painlessly if they’re not able to be rehabilitated, definitely what I would call justice.

Hanging, shooting, whichever other painful or ‘old world justice’ method, I’m hesitant to call that justice because it causes pain and suffering needlessly. Criminals treat people less than people. People must treat criminals like people, or we’re all criminals.

I mean, I only believe in execution for people who are genuinely beyond help, extreme psychological damage or deficiencies, and that’s because I don’t believe in life incarceration either.

If someone can be reformed, reform them. If they can’t, caging them like animals for the last of their days is almost worse than the death penalty for me too. A man who is sentenced to die in prison for his crimes due to the years he’s sentenced, he should be able to opt out and go for the painless death. No forcing, no incentive, no coercion, death with dignity.

Honestly, with some prison reform I don’t think we’d need 40-50 year life sentences as often because people could actually change. For those that can’t, or who are too old to be able to change before their time served, the right to end it peacefully is something I think we all owe each other.

But I’m all in agreement when it comes to reducing the cost. I don’t love the death penalty, I think it should be reserved for absolutely impossible cases, but it should be cheaper.

Those are not painless methods and they hearken to a sense of vengeance, not justice. If someone is truly so irredeemable that we cannot re-educate them to learn to be good citizens or at least non-offending citizens, then we should remove them from the ability to cause further harm. But we are not in the business of causing suffering, at least not on paper we’re not. So we should give the person a civilized death with no pain, as causing pain is not justice, it’s vengeance.

I’ve raised a 13 year old, I was a 13 year old, I mentored 13 year olds for my job. No 13 year old just does that without existing problems or behavioral issues already present. Maybe not none, but the number is ridiculously small, I just don’t want to deal in absolutes. Teenagers can be mean, they can be weird, they can be vindictive, but they’re not so stupid or under developed that they can’t think through the logic of hitting an authority figure with food or that it’s potentially a protected action due to their age.

My solution has more to do with “no person should be made to do X job”. Sewer workers, absolutely shitty job, necessary, no abuse though so it’s okay. Lawyer? Guaranteed immunity to abuse from clients because you can easily say “fuck it” and drop their case. Teachers are stuck, they can’t even stage a walk-out or protest without being threatened by the federal government. Kids can hit you, they can belittle you, they can be as mean as they’d like with no recourse because of shifting opinions about teachers’ role in society. What’s worse, they know it, and they abuse it. A lot of the kids I dealt with were through social services, so I get that some of them are almost doomed before they start because of how they were raised or what necessities they were struggling with at home. But that doesn’t make their bad behavior the responsibility of someone who’s just trying to get a paycheck and health insurance. Bad behavior shouldn’t be on teachers or schools to solve/correct/plan around, it should be the parents (and don’t get me started on how parents don’t have the time to rear their kids properly due to the death of the single parent income model. With that in mind, correction of those behaviors should be dropped squarely at the parent/students’ feet. If alternative school scares a kid, I hope it gives them a safe enough glimpse into what society is like when you can’t operate within it.

I agree, gotta have patience to work in that field. Although I don’t know if it’s really a teacher’s job to put up with that, I’m in favor of decreasing what constitutes as “fuck you and your kid” behavior. Kid throws a pizza at a teacher, fuck him, new school or alternative school the rest of the year or more, teachers aren’t paid enough for that.

Damn that dude did sound angry, but damn do kids suck.

It’s the corolla bit that makes this. I don’t know why, but he needed to list the detail of the car and that had to eat Musk up a little bit.

Alex didn’t want to go back to Uzbekistan, or be threatened with it regardless of citizenship by ol’ tusky Musk.

Pocket-knife-prying-open-floorboards crazy. Biggest asshole I’ve ever read about crazy.

Strange bug led to monkeys evolving well past other species and dominating before anyone else can get to late game, because of this we’ve increased the learning and beneficial evolution speeds across the board.

I think it’s the fact that true tolerance would allow the burning of any book. Not all copies, not banning it from circulation, but the burning of an individual symbol as a means of expressing an idea is perfectly fine in most Americans’ view. I share that view, I understand the nuance of the situation at hand, I’m aware the quaran is a holy book and that it sends a strong message.

But so does burning the American flag, as a symbol, to show that America’s ideals and values are dead or do not apply for the people doing the burning. American flag burning was done with the intent to express that the symbol of freedom and equality that it was pushed as was not at all representative of the America those people were experiencing. America has a problem with nationalism, so much so they tossed “under god” in a “non-mandatory” (socially reinforced) pledge of allegiance you say every day before school starts all the way until you graduate. You can imagine burning the flag pissed those nationalists off too, but their vitriol and frustration is useless and unwarranted.

If you say the culture of Islam, or the culture of the people who see that book as their most holy symbol and use it to justify violence, is unwelcome in your nation, as an individual, that’s completely fine to me. I don’t love the blanket statement, but I do love that you can express it without fear of retaliation from your government and with the knowledge that you are as safe expressing that belief as you are expressing one more widely agreed upon.

If I disagree with you, I should debate you, i should seek to educate you, or be louder than you with my actions and words. That’s not the way of every place in the world, but it is the way of any civilized people. Any who condone violence in response, even provoked violence, are closer to animals than their fellow man.