• BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    It’s always funny to me how western media tries to frame this as a bad thing.

    “Not even their elites are safe from their government!” Oh no, how terrible that they face consequences for their actions like the rest of us

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      That was one of the weirdest parts of a really awful interview Zizek did, “The most dangerous place to be was on top” under Stalin and that this was worse than what the Nazis did.

      • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        11 months ago

        lmao the higher ups have more power, therefore more responsibility and culpability for wrongdoing, therefore they are more severely punished. What a fucking mystery that the people who did the most wrong had the most power?

        What a fucking astute observation by brain genius Zizek

      • ZapataCadabra [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        11 months ago

        I struggle to even say Zizek is a misguided socialist. He’s a cranky without useful analysis. The only two things he’s done well are his ramblings on consuming anticapitalist media and making Jordan Peterson look dumb.

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      11 months ago

      “Not even their elites are safe from their government!”

      sicko-wistful

      Some lanyard brains do freak out about how scary it would be to have a government that no one could have immunity to, as if to imply that they are, or will be, in that choice select group of oligarch fucks.

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      11 months ago

      Not a fan of the death penalty, but this is one way to do it.

      You get two years to not fuck up, and if you manage that it gets reduces to a life sentence or some other fixed sentence

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    11 months ago

    the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

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    11 months ago

    Two year reprieve meaning in two years they still stretch his neck or give him the Ol Yeller treatment or whatever?

    Thats a long time to think about whats coming, frankly. If theyre going to end his life just fucking do it already. My dislike of the death penalty is tempered a hair by the fact that this jackwagon is of the bourgeois class but two years just seems like a needless holiday. Either do it or dont.

    • Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      In addition to what the other guys said, it’s a common practice for death row inmates in the US to sit in prison for years, and sometimes decades, before they get put down. The reasoning to my understanding is that you can’t exonerate a dead man. They give plenty of time for appeals and additional evidence as a due course of justice for a fair trail as preserved by the 6th ammendment.