FWIW, i didn’t read that as anything but genuine.

I’m not convinced you’re asking yourselves the right question. Do you want revenge and punishment, or do you want a better society?

Don’t get me wrong, the USA are so fucked up currently it’s hard not to want to get back at those causing so much damage. I share that feeling.

But we know from evidence that prison as punishment just generates more violence and horror and doesn’t create a better society. Prison as rehabilitation does a lot better towards that goal.

I think you’re misunderstanding me, I’m not disagreeing with how unacceptable, reprehensible and un-fucking-ethical police behaviour is: the Police suck and are, in many cases, an unfixable organisation.

I’m disagreeing with the death penalty.

The fact that it’s traditional is entirely irrelevant and, at worst, an appeal to tradition.

End the death penalty.

The death penalty is an abomination. No.

I get the sentiment, and share it to a large degree, but death penalty? WTF?

Of course they will never let it apply to themselves.

Fascist regimes delight in and depend on arbitrary enforcement of rules.

Yes. As I was saying elsewhere, he’s a journalist reporting on tech which includes scams, so of course he did actually used a real card to test, otherwise he’d be speculating rather than investigating.

And we’d probably not be hearing about this.

He’s a journalist reporting on tech which includes scams, of course he did otherwise he’d be speculating rather than investigating.

And we’d probably not be hearing about this.

We live in dynamic environments of complex interacting relationships, in case you hadn’t realised, so outcomes are not binary.

I started a serious answer and then read the last part. Well played.

I think they know. I think we are realising these people are eugenicists.