You going to have to define when it's a democracy and when it a Republic. Be specific to the months

Soros-funded organizations back a lot of crazy shit. It doesn't matter that he's a "racial Jew". He's not a religious Jew, and nothing having to do with criticism of him is in regards to his race. And those who despise him the most view him as a Nazi paramour, not a Jew.

Nothing else to add here, and no opinions I'm willing to share regarding either Soros or Gascon. I heard a rumor somewhere that Tucker did some docuthinggy regarding Gascon, and you can get free access to watch it. Might be a good view, who knows?

Then again, if you already know everything, you probably wouldn't want to watch Tucker. Me? I watch Maddow, the Young Turks, all kinds of shit I despise. Can't argue both sides if you don't know them, eh?

Soros is code for the racist on television for "Jews". It is dog whistle stuff. You're right, Tucker is for reactionaries but everyone has a news product.

I don't think you can get to know both sides, or much of anything, by watching television. I don't watch television at all. I watched a movie with my daughter last week, Princess Mononoke. We watched the Truman Show last week. This is because my wife was in San Fran for two weeks training for a job.

It is funny that you can watch TYT without having cable. I have a hundred plus stations with an antennae, but I only have it to watch sports games, races, etc. I just have too many better things to do. Hound, small dogs, swimming pool, work in garden, hammock, if I want to look at a screen boot up one of the PS5s, I live on the border of a state park so there's a lake near by I can walk to, fish at, kayak at, etc.

Sometimes I'll catch a series on streaming. The Watchmen was the last series that sucked me in. WandaVision too.

I spend most of my waking hours in the psych ward so self care is important.

This post was edited by Skinned on Jun 20 2022 08:31pm

What a strange post. Cable? Who needs cable to watch TYT? They're on youtube. Foxnation, especially with free passes from Tucker's website, is again, streaming. Nearly all the major news outlets have free apps for your SmartTV to watch the broadcast live for no charge (ads though).

Who needs cable? Just a single ear headset to listen to shit in the background while you're working on other things, and a phone to link to it, and 10 seconds every couple hours (assuming long form content) to change videos, channels, or feeds.

People who stay trapped in front of a TV or even computer for the sake of news are disturbing.

This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Jun 21 2022 05:05am

Weird, guess nothing is off limits these days for a political angle. Burning/burying the dead who cannot afford seems a core apolitical principle of a civilized society. Let's take steps backwards though.

I guess it is a very complex and difficult question.

Analyzing the internal philosophy and mass psychology: It is important for human beings to feel that we get revenge. And it is absurd when sometimes the person murdered gets a worse funeral or send-off than the murderer, depending on the circumstances. Even still, after everything is said and done, looking back to how we do things as a society, even in the most difficult matters as these, not lowering ourselves to the level of the murderer i think does something to us as a community. We send a signal to others that if we manage to stand above the actions of those that are in the darkest parts of life, everything we live for and stand for becomes more wortwhile. We don't give them a funeral to honor the murderer, but those that are murdered. They can't utter their wishes, and if they had been alive, maybe some of them would want it that way. And that is what we should consider.

It is very difficult and complex. Our first instinct is to mutilate and hang the body for mockery and dishonor. But our first instincts are often the most short-sighted. Our last instinct is forgiveness, and i personally do not expect anyone to forgive a murderer or any criminal. But for a society to continue on and grow, forgiveness is the last and most long-sighted emotion. And if we manage to stay true to that, we stay true to the best emotions that we have as a humanity. And there is no mistake; A murderer's life is obviously black and very problematic. If just to have 0.01% of light can make a difference for our society, giving them a funeral is a way to do that.

Providing tens or hundreds of thousands of taxpayers dollars for the funeral of a murderous psychopath who was a danger to society is not "making a difference for society" but rather causing yet another drain on society.

As already stated, charge Gascon, personally. As in, he has no choice. Garnish his pay, 100% of his pay, until the funeral is 100% paid for. He chose not to prosecute, he chose to let people out. He went against the will of the voters and their representatives. He chose to become a law into himself, so he is welcome to pay the consequences.

You don't need to lower yourself to the level of the murderer. Justice is based on the theory of "Do unto others as they have done unto you" with morality-based limitations. So if a serial killer murders and eats 27 people, you don't murder the serial killer and eat them. But you do tend to sentence them to swift and merciful death, for the sake of society.

A murderer is never not a murderer. Murder once, and you're a murderer for life. Same as a Cannibal, same as many other terrible things. Robbing from the average citizen at gunpoint (taxing them) to pay for lavish funerals for murderers, when the taxpayers already agreed to and supported laws that would have prevented the most recent murders perpetrated by said murderer?

Politicians lie to get in office, everywhere, all the time, and always have. Being taken in by a lie shouldn't put you on the hook for supporting a murderer. Prove they did it, remove their head from their body, cremate their remains, throw the ash into the nearest stand of pine or fir trees, and continue about your day.