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Americans really have just normalised and relish terrible things happening to people in prison huh? Social programming is one hell of a drug
The "If Criminal, then Bad Person" and the "If Bad Person, then any Bad Thing OK" combo are pervasive in America, across the political spectrum, and have been for a while. At least since the War on Drugs started, and almost certainly well before that. It is frightening to have a conversation with a seemingly well-meaning, moral person and have them casually joke about prisoners being tortured, raped, or killed. I don't think it's an attitude unique to America but I think the private prison industry has had a lot to do with how incredibly common the attitude is that, if someone is in prison, they must have done something wrong, and if they did something wrong, any bad thing that happens to them (forced labor, starvation, sexual assault, death) is deserved punishment. It's ghastly.
Facists need ro be delt with extra harshly imo. The scope of their crimes is just to great otherwise
So... you're endorsing rape as a punishment, but only if we're like, super duper sure they're fascists? Is that what you mean by "extra harshly"?
Are you pretending trump isn't a facists?
No. I'm asking if you are endorsing rape as an acceptable punishment in cases where you are highly confident, beyond a reasonable doubt, that someone is a fascist.
As long as it is someone we don't like, then yes.
Edit: oops, I guess I need the /s
You really think rape should be tolerated and used as a punishment? That's a serious thought in your brain?
Fuck this. No. This is so much of what's wrong with this fucking country.
No. Let's not reinforce prisons as torture camps. For fuck's sake.
It doesn't have to mean anything beyond him having a cellmate named bill.
Come on.
Please fuck all the way off with this sniveling, hand-wringy "We just really can't know for sure" plausible deniability crock of shit you scraped off of Milo Yiannopoulos's jackboot. There is no other context in which this sign makes sense other than as a joke, and prison rape is the punchline.
Ah yes, the weird American fascination with prison rape as a form of punishment.
How is that implied? Did I miss some text? Most people seem to agree that this is what the meme is about.
Why would a person want a cell mate of someone they don’t like to be anything? (besides annoying or have a good memory (for remembering additional confessions) or something?)
Big: able to overpower
Beautiful: kinda gets to a place of romantic or sexual
Bill: definitely a dude
Edit - there’s a non-zero chance the protestor didn’t have sexual assault in mind, blinded by the pun. We can hope they were pun obsessed.
Edit - there’s a non-zero chance the protestor didn’t have sexual assault in mind, blinded by the pun. We can hope they were pun obsessed.
Highly, HIGHLY unlikely
Arhg
In that case still a chance if we had an hour with her to dig into “yo is LITERAL RAPE actually ha-ha FUNNY, pls explain” we could get her around
:-/
(Reminded of the technique of saying “what do you mean?” when folks make off-color comments that either punch down or just aren’t ever really great, forcing to explain)
For sure it'd be worth a conversation, and they may come around after a frank but patient discussion
To be fair, we do put rapists in there.
We also put people who happened to have a few grams of weed in there.
Also people who commit the crime of being black near police officers.
Sexual assault is funny, and rape is ok when it's happening to prisoners, clearly.
Not ok, but less bad if the victim is a petulant rapist.
No it's not. It is unacceptable in all cases. I don't understand how otherwise principled "all humans are humans and deserve rights" people are suddenly a-OK with rape or torture if it's someone they've decided is a "bad person" without realizing they're doing the exact same thing fascists do to justify human rights violations, but it's a pathological problem. If you think it's ok for you (or anyone) to decide who is allowed to have human rights and who isn't, you're an authoritarian in denial and you will fall victim to the next authoritarian leader who agrees with you about who we're allowed to torture.
I like it because it's clever. It's still kinda boomer humor about prison rape but No Kings isn't about getting angry about something like that when we have a common enemy.
Plus who knows, Big Beautiful Bill might just be a lovely, swell fellow.
Big Beautiful Bill was wrongly imprisoned like many in America. He is a great guy who looks out for other inmates. He is sex positive and knows that consent is mandatory. After falling in love with Bill, Trump is fully reformed and joins the antifascist cause leaving hate behind and embracing peace love and justice for all.
Prison rape is never funny. It’s traumatic, violent, and life destroying.
Sea-lioning replies justifying rape will be blocked.
I don’t know why people think Trump will spend 1 second in any sort of prison.
Futurama Fry meme
Not sure if prison rape joke or ok
This actually made me sick to my stomach. I'm used to prison rape (and men being raped in general) being treated as a joke, but to see it in an ostensibly "progressive" movement was just too much for me. Especially since these are the same people who rushed to condemn violence after Kirk got shot. Where is your morality now?
Realise that the revenge you're praying for can only happen if the institution of prison rape, which predominantly victimizes queer people in men's prisons, continues to exist. If you find that tolerable even for a second... I just don't know how to reach you.
You are right. This is perpetuating rape culture and is unacceptable in a progressive society. That woman should be ashamed of herself.
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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