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General Discussion => The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit => Topic started by: Kat Kid on December 17, 2020, 10:26:57 AM
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absolute gut wrenching piece in NYT today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/opinion/federal-executions-trump-alfred-bourgeois.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/opinion/federal-executions-trump-alfred-bourgeois.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage)
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So stupid and senseless
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It's an interesting topic and the pov perspective from the article was interesting in a voyeuristic sense, but I think she shortchanged the rationale(s) underlying the death penalty.
I think the death penalty is wrong, but its purpose isn't just for closure/catharsis. There's something to be said for punitive justice: "you did something society deems abhorrent enough to be put to death for." That the entire exercise is unpleasant to witness shouldn't have come as a surprise to our girl, Liz.
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It's an interesting topic and the pov perspective from the article was interesting in a voyeuristic sense, but I think she shortchanged the rationale(s) underlying the death penalty.
I think the death penalty is wrong, but its purpose isn't just for closure/catharsis. There's something to be said for punitive justice: "you did something society deems abhorrent enough to be put to death for." That the entire exercise is unpleasant to witness shouldn't have come as a surprise to our girl, Liz.
The specific reason given by every prosecutor is for closure/catharsis so it was a good meditation on what that actually means and why we perform these executions in the manner we do.
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https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1339410569561030656 (https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1339410569561030656)
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She's a conservative Christian, right? Just asking because I've never been sure about it.
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She's a conservative Christian, right? Just asking because I've never been sure about it.
more of a socialist christian
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She's a conservative Christian, right? Just asking because I've never been sure about it.
more of a socialist christian
From Wiki
Bruenig has been described as being on "the Catholic Left"[15] by Rod Dreher in The American Conservative. In a profile published by Washington Monthly, she is described as "the most prominently placed of a small but increasingly visible group of young writers unabashedly advocating for democratic socialism."[16]
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Well, it always seemed to me that Jesus was a socialist.
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Well, it always seemed to me that Jesus was a socialist.
definitely, it's odd that Liz is such a rare breed
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Trump showed his ass on the death penalty 30 years ago, frankly I'm surprised the executions weren't a bigger priority of the justice department much earlier in his administration.