Is this evil, or just very very sad?
I feel like he’s crying out for help.
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Cry for help among the people who love you and are a kind of family. Does Kanye not know what love is? Uh huhm.
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In order to train torturers, you need disposable, unimportant people for them to practice on, so it doesn’t matter when they screw up and kill someone too quickly.
I have to disagree.
Historically, torture has been used to satisfy torturers, to spread terror, and to extract confessions. Of course there’s a justification about extracting information, but it doesn’t work for that. So unless they’re extracting a confession, they don’t need extra disposable people to practice on.
This does not make it any better.
Recently, over the past several decades, torturers have developed less-often-lethal techniques such as pepper spray, sleep deprivation, etc., as well as “rough rides,” so again they wouldn’t need extra people unless they’re deliberately practicing lethal torture.
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Corrct me if I’m wrong, but I think this guy is even worse than Trump.
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Very well could be… from what I’ve heard, he seems pretty despicable… The global marching of the far right into power is depressing and scary… I’m so sick of this happening.
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Yes. His supporters have promised to kill the gays. There will be more murders, because of him.
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His tough-on-crime stance that vowed to give more leeway to law enforcement to kill criminals
What? Words, meaning, all fade to mist…
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Think of all the things Trump had openly told us his disgusting agenda, that people pretended he couldn’t possibly have meant only to be proven wrong again and again.
Now compare: Bolsonaro has called refugees scum of the earth, talked about whipping children to stop them from becoming gay, and described some of the African descendants as not even good for procreation. He has said police who kill should be given medals rather than prosecution, and that police who don’t aren’t police. And he has not only spoken in favor of dictatorship, but once famously said the Brazil’s last one did not go far enough, and should have killed 30000 people more.
And that’s just a sample from a little searching and an episode of Last Week Tonight. It seems to me that Trump is wearing a dictator costume over his petty self-absorption, while Bolsonaro was born into one. If he is anything less than a total catastrophe – for the world’s 5th largest populace, and incidentally, for the Amazon and global climate the rest of us depend on – it will be a miracle.
If anyone is there to write it, our world’s epitaph is going to be short and insulting. 
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Could have made heaven
Would have had to share with all
So made Hell instead.
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I like it. It’s more generous than what I would have said.
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I don’t see how “Damning the world over greed and petty squabbles” can be interpreted generously, but I’m glad you like it.
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For me, it’s somewhere between
Those voting for them
Earned the special place in Hell
That they created
And:
Fuck this goddamn place
Fuck those motherfucking fucks
And their mothers too
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Strangely, I wasn’t initially going for a haiku. I just wrote out what I wanted to say on three lines, and ended up with 5-8-6 syllables.
And then I realized what I’d almost done, and took it the rest of the way.
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Just this much: that not wanting to share is not sympathetic as such but at least somewhat relatable. I have seen toddlers express it, and I have seen them rise above it, and I think it is an impulse we have all felt and simply learn for the petty failing it is. It may be damning, but it does not dwell on what I worry is even stronger, straight up love of hurting others.
Many of the world’s victims deserve more – refugees and disenfranchised minorities and poor people everywhere. But I think at this point, say, Jewish people could probably stand just being left alone, and for LGBT people it would at least be a step up. Somehow even that’s allowing too much. And then you get to things like laughing at children jailed away from their parents, and selfish doesn’t even figure. It’s straight up wanting people to burn, and if the world burns with them it is a small price to pay.
So I was especially worrying about climate change. It is one of the biggest things here, and it seems mostly the result of greed incarnate, men oozing with more money than anyone could use yet still determined to lie and destroy the very world for a percentage more. But I saw a suggestion by Umair Haque which got me thinking, maybe they’re so easy to deny any problem in part because they like the change. Remember the “we couldn’t do it but God did” after Katrina? Stupid to say, but probably thought by a lot more?
Well, knowing what Trump and his supporters intend for Hispanic people, do we then suppose they were simply indifferent to a thousand of them dying from Maria? Or is that itself a bonus, worth some destruction and actual relief efforts elsewhere? Likewise would Bolsonaro, with his active desire to purge the country, even mind that destroying the Amazon might exacerbate some crises where his government might choose who is helped or left to die? Climate change is encouraging fascism now; maybe we’re not the only ones who have noticed.
That’s where I was coming from, anyway. And yeah, there we were too much like selfish toddlers seemed an almost heartwarming take. Maybe it’s still a better one, though. Fingers crossed.
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In that case, we need an extinction level event to take out humanity. We don’t deserve to live anymore as a species.
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I hate to “like” that, but I agree. My SO hates it when I talk like that, though.
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This petty stupidity has been going on for years, and it continues to be disturbing.
A bit of background:
The trial stems from an argument Asia Bibi, whose full name is Asia Noreen, had with a group of women in June 2009.
They were harvesting fruit when a row broke out about a bucket of water. The women said that because she had used a cup, they could no longer touch it, as her faith had made it unclean.
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