stnylan.bsky.social

Woke up in a panic attack. This thread has me laughing. Thanks to @dreadships.bsky.social and all the wonderful people in this thread for making me laugh and able to out that behind me.

I am against the death penalty. I deeply understand the emotional appeal, the simplicity a life for a life. But also I truly believe that everyone can be redeemed, however infinitesimal the chance. And sadly it is all too easy, given the injustices in the system, to execute the wrong person.

But if there is to be a death penalty, don't hide it away. Show it for what it is. Really now would be the most opportune moment to build a campaign against it in both state and fed. Of course it would require actual political planning, but if people could do that 2024 would have been different.

I am against the death penalty. I deeply understand the emotional appeal, the simplicity a life for a life. But also I truly believe that everyone can be redeemed, however infinitesimal the chance. And sadly it is all too easy, given the injustices in the system, to execute the wrong person.

I have seen some quite ignorant takes on this matter though. Firstly that it is not Christian. How supposedly educated people forget how prevalent execution was amongst Christian countries until post-WW2 is an interesting application of ignorance in service of a hyperbolic statement.

I am against the death penalty. I deeply understand the emotional appeal, the simplicity a life for a life. But also I truly believe that everyone can be redeemed, however infinitesimal the chance. And sadly it is all too easy, given the injustices in the system, to execute the wrong person.

Why would anyone trust America part XYZ Biden let murderer skip the country rather than face justice. Now Trump a possible paedophile. I want want to start revoking a lot of the privileges the US has - and I am an Americanophile! The rot is deeper than Trump, and infects Dems as well.

To begin with let not a single American official vehicle leave the Embassy until they pay the congestion charge. If they are not prepared to be good civic inhabitants, they lose the right to use the roads.

It's great to see this man's kindness celebrated and honoured. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When the news of this coach crash broke I was worried that a colleague's child might be involved. As it turned out they were not, but they did know the boy who died.

Cannot emphasise this enough. Germany cracked in WW1 through slow starvation, social discord, and military & diplomatic defeat. Germany in WW2 didn't crack and had to be overrun, with bitter fighting right up to the end (look up something like the Siege of Breslau).

But this is not a war. It is not even a special military operation. It is an autocrat's temper tantrum, which is putting the USN as close as they have been to having a mutiny since the 70s.

Cannot emphasise this enough. Germany cracked in WW1 through slow starvation, social discord, and military & diplomatic defeat. Germany in WW2 didn't crack and had to be overrun, with bitter fighting right up to the end (look up something like the Siege of Breslau).

Or look at Ukraine, which has been under many times the pressure from Russia what Iran is from the US. Any signs of cracking? Instead they are escalating. People don't like being bombed. I remember reading an account of an opponent of Milosevic in Yugoslavia talking about the 1999 bombings.

Who would ally with America these days. Biden was happy to abandon you. Obama was happy for Russia to annex Crimea and shot down passenger planes* Trump wants to bomb you. And none of the notable candidates on either side for 2028 seem to be any better.

*Think I am being harsh? America had guaranteed Ukraine in 1998 and Obama decided America's word meant nothing. Every death since 2022 can partly be laid at his door for his cowardice. We do not remember kindly Baldwin or Chamberlain for their failings, & we should judge Obama and Biden the same.

Every war since at least Crimea I believe has had it's variation of an ammunition crisis. The problem here actually isn't that Trump's Iranian war is stupid and harmful on so many levels (those are very real problems of their own) but that the USA cannot sustain on-off again action for very long.

This is great-grandparent territory. 1. Petty Officer in the Royal Navy 2. London dockworker 3. Butcher 4. Don't know The wives were all housewives, two already with young children and two pregnant with their first. All my grandparents were between 0, 0, 8 and 12 in 1926 iirc.

And if we bounce 25 years forward again for my parents in 1976 then. 1. Petty Officer in the Royal Navy 2. Legal secretary at a firm of solicitors

This is great-grandparent territory. 1. Petty Officer in the Royal Navy 2. London dockworker 3. Butcher 4. Don't know The wives were all housewives, two already with young children and two pregnant with their first. All my grandparents were between 0, 0, 8 and 12 in 1926 iirc.