Author Topic: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet  (Read 274240 times)

0 Members and 5 Guests are viewing this topic.

Offline Tolpuddle Martyr

  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 3716
  • Have you got thumbs? SHOW ME YOUR FUCKING THUMBS!
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1515 on: July 20, 2018, 08:13:53 pm »
Honestly, I don't see how abolishing prisons is keeping with the principles of either social democrats or democratic socialists, or socialists, or democrats of any stripe. It's just nuts.

Art Vandelay

  • Guest
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1516 on: July 20, 2018, 11:28:35 pm »
Abolishing for-profit prisons and bail is perfectly sensible. Abolishing prisons and borders themselves is fucking stupid.

Online dpareja

  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 5680
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1517 on: July 21, 2018, 01:32:39 am »
Abolishing for-profit prisons and bail is perfectly sensible. Abolishing prisons and borders themselves is fucking stupid.

I wouldn't mind still having bail for rich defendants, but I'm not exactly tied to the notion.

And abolishing profit is ridiculous, capitalism works just fine in its proper sphere. It's when it's moved outside that sphere that it goes haywire.
Quote from: Jordan Duram
It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?

Quote from: Supreme Court of Canada
Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.

Online RavynousHunter

  • Master Thief
  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 8108
  • Gender: Male
  • A man of no consequence.
    • My Twitter
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1518 on: July 21, 2018, 11:01:47 am »
Like prisons.  And education.  And healthcare.  And the basic fundamentals of modern human living.
Quote from: Bra'tac
Life for the sake of life means nothing.

Online dpareja

  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 5680
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1519 on: July 21, 2018, 11:31:52 am »
Like prisons.  And education.  And healthcare.  And the basic fundamentals of modern human living.

More health insurance than health care. It's perfectly healthy for doctors to compete on quality of service and (especially for GPs) different secondary specializations.
Quote from: Jordan Duram
It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?

Quote from: Supreme Court of Canada
Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.

Offline Askold

  • Definitely not hiding a dark secret.
  • Global Moderator
  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 8358
  • Gender: Male
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1520 on: July 21, 2018, 11:39:13 am »
But you don't lose any money with the bail if you show up in court. Allowing only rich people to pay bail would mean that any poor suspect would be stuck in jail while the rich will offer a sum of money as collateral and then get out. And the only purpose for the bail is to make it expensive for them to run away and hide from the court which is a thing that rich people can do easier anyway.

AFAIK bail bonds aren't really a thing in Finland. Either the court decides that the person is a flight risk or threat and must be detained until court or they don't. No payment necessary.
No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were:
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Aww, you guys rock. :)  I feel the love... and the pitchforks and torches.  Tingly!

Online dpareja

  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 5680
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1521 on: July 21, 2018, 11:46:14 am »
But you don't lose any money with the bail if you show up in court. Allowing only rich people to pay bail would mean that any poor suspect would be stuck in jail while the rich will offer a sum of money as collateral and then get out. And the only purpose for the bail is to make it expensive for them to run away and hide from the court which is a thing that rich people can do easier anyway.

AFAIK bail bonds aren't really a thing in Finland. Either the court decides that the person is a flight risk or threat and must be detained until court or they don't. No payment necessary.

No, the point would be that rich people would have to post (substantial) bail; poor people would be released on their own recognizance (and get reminders to show up in court; this has proved effective in Philadelphia), and possibly ankle tracking bracelets if they are deemed a flight risk.
Quote from: Jordan Duram
It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?

Quote from: Supreme Court of Canada
Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.

Offline Askold

  • Definitely not hiding a dark secret.
  • Global Moderator
  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 8358
  • Gender: Male
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1522 on: July 21, 2018, 11:58:23 am »
That makes more sense.
No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were:
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Aww, you guys rock. :)  I feel the love... and the pitchforks and torches.  Tingly!

Offline Sigmaleph

  • Ungodlike
  • Administrator
  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 3615
    • sigmaleph on tumblr
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1523 on: July 21, 2018, 09:04:33 pm »
Honestly, I don't see how abolishing prisons is keeping with the principles of either social democrats or democratic socialists, or socialists, or democrats of any stripe. It's just nuts.

well, there's the "prison at the standards of most of the world is more or less torture and it makes criminals even more likely to commit crimes once they come out, so it might well be a net negative" argument.

I don't know if that's true, mind you. But I don't know that it's false either.
Σא

Offline Tolpuddle Martyr

  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 3716
  • Have you got thumbs? SHOW ME YOUR FUCKING THUMBS!
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1524 on: July 21, 2018, 10:15:22 pm »
That would more be an argument against how prisons are run than an argument against prisons per se.

Of course for the last century at least any attempt to reintergrate prisoners so they become less of a danger to society and less terminally violent, drug-addled fuckups runs into the same old predictable 'ur being soft on crims' narrative.

And so prisons are left to be violent, rapey, murderous torture-holes and crime schools until the inmates get let out at some point and do something worse than they did before they were chucked in.

Ah, fuck. This shit gives me a headache.
« Last Edit: July 21, 2018, 10:26:07 pm by Tolpuddle Martyr »

Online dpareja

  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 5680
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1525 on: July 21, 2018, 11:04:44 pm »
That would more be an argument against how prisons are run than an argument against prisons per se.

Of course for the last century at least any attempt to reintergrate prisoners so they become less of a danger to society and less terminally violent, drug-addled fuckups runs into the same old predictable 'ur being soft on crims' narrative.

And so prisons are left to be violent, rapey, murderous torture-holes and crime schools until the inmates get let out at some point and do something worse than they did before they were chucked in.

Ah, fuck. This shit gives me a headache.

The first thing you could try is letting them vote while incarcerated and have that basic link to the rest of society, so that they're not completely cut off and ostracized.
Quote from: Jordan Duram
It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?

Quote from: Supreme Court of Canada
Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.

Offline Lana Reverse

  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 978
  • Gender: Female
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1526 on: July 24, 2018, 09:02:28 pm »
Quote
what do you call an african racial male going up steps
YOUR GOING DOWN forever :)
i like women i like ftm and mtf shemales i like all sorts of people.
I JUST HATE AFRICAN RACIAL MALES and i don't see the need for their survival.
i love disabled people and i love women I JUST HATE AFRICAN RACIAL MALES .
Beware those who hate the rich more than they love the poor.

Offline Kanzenkankaku

  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 1006
  • Gender: Female
  • Dreamer/Lightner
    • Mastadon Account
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1527 on: July 25, 2018, 01:04:03 am »
I really want to see the source on that quote because I think I might know who that is, funnily enough.

Offline niam2023

  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 4213
  • Gender: Male
  • The Forum Chad
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1528 on: July 25, 2018, 01:11:10 am »
Who is it?
Living Life, Lifting, Waiting for Summer

Offline Kanzenkankaku

  • The Beast
  • *****
  • Posts: 1006
  • Gender: Female
  • Dreamer/Lightner
    • Mastadon Account
Re: Not-Good Things People Say on the Internet
« Reply #1529 on: July 25, 2018, 03:30:21 am »
It reads almost exactly like a really weird guy I talked to once. It sounds almost exactly like him but I can't be sure because I tried looking for where it would be posted but couldn't find it.

If it isn't him it's probably some random on reddit.