Talk about an incentive to be on your best behavior. : chapotraphouse

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years 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.

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Whomst among us?

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Me I'll accept bribes! (I am desperate for money)

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packwatch

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[-] [email protected] 81 points 2 years ago

I'm not really a fan of the death penalty for normal human crimes, but I kinda don't mind it for bourgeois crimes.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

I was thinking about this in regards to the death penalty in revolutionary societies, I feel like there's a distinction to be made between 'circumstantial' crimes like theft or murder, where someone has to be in a particular place and time etc., they could be motivated by economic hardship, they could even just be innocent - versus 'structural' crimes where their guilt is a result of their position in an organization that cannot be deflected.

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[-] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago

When westerners try to bring up social credit scores, this is what they're fearmongering about. They're afraid of wealthy parasites facing even an ounce of consequences.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 years 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

[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago

I'm not for the death penalty, but if we're gonna have it, this is what it should be used for

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago

Good news, the actual sentence in reality is life in prison. This ruling nearly always is commuted to life in prison

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago

God I wish we did this kind of thing in the West

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago

They give him 2 years to not fuck up.

If he does 💀

If he doesn't, it gets commuted to life or some other sentence.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

More like a suspended sentence, where he gets two years to prove he's not doing any more crimes or he gets the chop. Still comes with a life sentence at the end of the suspension instead of it being considered served though.

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[-] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago

2008 was caused by bankers doing extremely illegal shit. How many people were imprisoned for it?

They could do it. But they don't want to. The difference here is that in the west the financial elite are the ruling class and the proletariat are under the boot. In China the proletariat are the ruling class and the bourgeoisie are under the boot.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

2008 was caused by bankers doing extremely illegal shit. How many people were imprisoned for it?

I'd say the point is more that the behavior that led to 2008 was substantially legal under a system designed to grease the wheels of financial capital at all costs

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Sure. That too. But jack shit happens when what they're doing is actually illegal too. All over the west there are different financial laws where they definitely crossed the line, not a single country did shit to them for it. They are the ruling class and the system will not pursue them unless there is a threat to the system itself if they're not pursued.