Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    I don’t even kill spiders. It’s hard to look at that photo and understand, how this young adult even considered doing this. What broke him like that? Maybe, instead of killing him, we can somehow guarantee no new guys like him would happen. Not in a genetic crime bullshit fashion, but in providing psychological services, making regular checks, noticing them and reaching out before they act like that? He’s a fucking idiot, but also a guy that fell through many safety nets proving them ineffective.

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      10 months ago

      That’s not how the prison industry works. There’s no money in fixing people if you can use them as unpaid labour.

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          10 months ago

          There are actually privately owned prisons, with investors, and profit incentives, and they’re a problem.

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            And they literally do forced labor for corporations, who pay the prison for that, which is legal because slavery is still legal in prisons. It’s absolutely an industry.

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              10 months ago

              I know in the early 2000s both McDonalds and Applebee’s were known to have used prison labor to have their uniforms made.

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        I seen some doc about some ultra tough texan prison guy. He was all “We need to punish people and my prison the best because we break our prisoners and make them behave perfectly and control everything they can do so they do no wrong. Then finally after decades of doing that we release then into the public all fixed”

        So the doc was about him going to Norway where they live on this island and have a room and “freedom” to wander around. They just have to be at certain places at certain times and can’t do lots of stuff. He gets on the ferry and the guy running the ferry is a prisoner in a paid job. He tells him he tried to get that job because that’s the easiest way to escape. But then he laughed and told him he was joking.

        The whole time this texan is just confused that a prison like that has better rehabilitation and lower repeated criminals than his prison

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        10 months ago

        I write about what can be done before the bloodshed and the prison sentence. But yeah, the next logical step is to look into these fuckers too.

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      10 months ago

      People who feel like they have nothing to live for often take their frustration out on others.

      It’s like they know their lives suck and likely won’t get better, so they focus on making other people’s lives worse because it’s literally all they feel they can do.

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        10 months ago

        I don’t think people realize how true this is. People like this are a symptom of society failing them, not them failing society.

        It is these people that need love and compassion the most. Preferably before they go crazy.

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      10 months ago

      Maybe, instead of killing him, we can somehow guarantee no new guys like him would happen.

      How are those mutually exclusive? Do you think killing him will make him respawn somewhere?