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The day I am forced to associate with the French is the day I die free.

why do we punish people

Hey, listen, I'm all for not punishing people and instead letting the victim take vengeance as they deem appropriate. It doesn't warm my heart that the drunk driver that ran over my grandma got 5 years parole, I'd much rather carve out various parts of the fucker, cook them, make him eat them, and then force him to guess what part he ate. But violence is a state-controlled monopoly, and the state gets pissy when others realize monopolies are destroying the market and bring only downsides to us regular buyers.

Also, some shithead said at some point "an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind" without realizing that once we finish the initial "eye for an eye" scenario justice has been met and we don't need to continue ad infinitum, and for some reason a bunch of cretins who want to hold onto their eyes agreed with him and now Hammurabi would shit upon our flawed society and its insane rules.

As an aside, I was looking into Hammurabi's code of laws while writing this, and the man seems to have been both just and metal as fuck. Here are some snippets I'd prefer to live my life by:

If a man breaks into a house, they shall kill him and hang him(?) in front of that very breach. (21)[80]

Like, fuck yeah - fuck around, find out.

If a man accuses another man and charges him with homicide, but cannot bring proof against him, his accuser shall be killed. (1)

More of the same, yes please.

If a man has a debt lodged against him, and the storm-god Adad devastates his field or a flood sweeps away the crops, or there is no grain grown in the field due to insufficient water—in that year he will not repay grain to his creditor; he shall suspend performance of his contract [literally "wet his clay tablet"] and he will not give interest payments for that year

Pay your insurance premium? No thanks, I don't need it, it's included in THE FUCKING LAW.

If a builder constructs a house for a man but does not make it conform to specifications so that a wall then buckles, that builder shall make that wall sound using his own silver. (233)[85]

Great. Fuck civil court where the builder's army of lawyers can bully my $5/h law student cause that's all I can afford while also rebuilding my house

If an ox gores to death a man while it is passing through the streets, that case has no basis for a claim. (250)

Fair. Why the fuck are you next to the goddamn ox, dipshit?

If a slave should declare to his master, "You are not my master", he [the master] shall bring charge and proof against him that he is indeed his slave, and his master shall cut off his ear.

Yeah maybe some of them need some work, but fuck if most aren't perfectly reasonable.

I propose USA National Television & News, or /c/UNTnews for short.

How the shit does someone not just Lee Harvey Oswald this man already? There've been better men killed for worse reasons.

So all government officials then? Unless your government has never declared war on another country and only participated in defensive wars for their lands, ofc.

You know, I could actually get behind that somewhat. Until your country gets taken over by fascists/communists and violent opposition is not only desired but should be encouraged via revolutionary anthems.

Let's reach another compromise: lemmy users whose opinions I deem retarded should spend their free time reincarnating.

It's not only a problem when democrats do it. It's a problem when democrats begin doing it as well.

Look man, I'm not from your country, but it's clear this is the same thing that's been happening now all throughout Europe. Where there are usually more than two choices, so we can't even claim lack of choice as the reason. Let me try to explain.

Old parties have been around the block so many times, everyone knows how morally corrupt they are. "Lesser of two evils" is not something younger voters want to go for. They want a party that represents them, and none of the old ones want to represent them. They just want the power, but not to speak the will of the voters. And while some are obviously bad choices (like your Republicans), the leftist voters are especially mad at those parties that have been masquerading as socialist or left-leaning. Because they promised and didn't deliver. Just like your Democrats.

So now all throughout Europe there are newly established far-right parties getting a bunch of votes, on the basis of "nobody else is keeping their word, or representing me as a voter, so I might as well try these new guys". Trump won his first election on that platform, and he'll win the second election on the same grounds.

But this isn't a problem with the voters. For example, Germany now has this exact situation. Who do you think most voted for the new far-right party? The eastern part of Germany. The poorest part, with the fewest job opportunities, with the lowest incomes, the highest frequence in homelessness, the least educated etc. And who's to fucking blame for an entire class of people being disenfranchised over several decades? The voters?

Nah, man. The only ones who made this bed are the parties who created today's environment. Usually we sleep in it, but every now and then people get tired of getting fucked, and they force a change, even if it may be a bad one. And sometimes, that is enough - the knowledge that even if you lose, at least the people who have been actively hurting you also don't get to win. They lose as well, they sleep in the same bed as you for a change. At least this one fucking time.

I won't deny that it's a destructive mentality and that it may lead to long-term negative effects that are hard to undo. But this has moved past a reasonable situation for some. Desperation kicks in, and the need for revenge is strong. When you work 2-3 jobs to feed your kids, when you can't sleep at night because you don't know if tomorrow you're gonna be evicted while you're at work, when you can't afford basic necessities... Fuck it, man. You get it. Sometimes you just desperately want things to change and you don't care if the world burns in the process, because your world has been burning for god knows how many years, and nobody seemed to care so far. And at that point, you're especially pissed at those who pretended they cared.

No, he means every opinion you don't like is automatically a tankie bot. That's what lemmy is. From tankies, for tankies.

Thorbot's shit hole has expanded to 10x its previous size in the past year, thanks to increased usage by members of the public.

I've also not spent anything on games I've played, and then if I liked them I'd go on to purchase the game on steam. What's the point here?

My city's taxi system was completely changed by Uber, as were many parts of the country. So while it might not be true anymore, and taxi drivers with bad attitudes and those fudging the meter might have been mostly weeded out, it's because of Uber that this happened. And it's because of their unions that it hadn't happened before. But the moment there started being some competition in town as opposed to their previous monopoly on the market, they had to back down if they wanted to even survive, let alone come out on top over Uber.

So while yes, uber employees are being fucked over, that has less of an impact on things than you imply. I'll still get an Uber/Bolt instead of a taxi 9/10 times, because immoral business practices are still better than immoral & illegal practices backed by a monopoly that you are powerless to change.

Both are true

Disney is shit, star wars was never good

Hate the truth however much you want, it'll still be valid tomorrow morning also.

5 years ago

old

Now listen here you little shit