Came here to make this point.

You can be sure that when a person like DeSantis says "death to pediohiles" they're thinking of trans people, not Trump.

I don't have a Tumblr post, but I do have this.

Edit: from page 5:
"Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered."

There really shouldn't be any death penalty at all.

Any sort of "death to X, no exception" is pure rhetoric btw. It's scary how strong that rhetoric is and how both voters & people with a lot of power support it, but afaik no rule of law knows any such thing.

Of course, the USA is this 🤏 close to tyranny, but not yet!

Nicer link btw:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/45c407a0-332b-4226-9176-1bd2658bfc45.webp

The argument is flawed in the following way.

1. If some crimes are punished more severely than others, then the government could accuse its critics of committing these crimes and/or criminalize opponents out of existence.
2. Therefore, no crimes should be punished more severely than other crimes.

But this conclusion is ridiculous. Some crimes should be punished more severely, possibly up to and including the death penalty.

My point is that if you do want to argue against the death penalty, this argument is not it.

This is exactly it. Death penalties are dangerous because words are ultimately meaningless, and as we've seen in the misinformation age, people of a particular political party (in the US) can call people pedophiles in name when there is no actual evidence that's the case. Truth has gone by the way side.

What we really need is due process for figuring this shit out, as well as a properly funded remediation program so people can learn why what they did was wrong.

I buy that argument. Because as soon as you criminalize one sexual orientation, which we know are determined to be genetic in nature, like pedophilia, then you can criminalize any sexual orientation, like homosexuality.

Yup. A lot of republicans are about to get super creepy on definitions.

People only bring up this argument to distract from the fact that their real motivation is primitive revenge.

I got a brilliant idea. Lets make being homeless a crime punishable by death! We can solve the homeless problem by deterring homelessness!

Yeah seriously, aren't Trump and DeSatan mortal enemies?

I know there's Godwin's Law. And yes, I always tried very hard not to bring up Hitler and not to compare Trump with him.

But as a historically inclined German I would like to point out that I simply cannot help but constantly find parallels between Trump / magaworld and the Nazis.

They keep hating on a small, completely innocent and harmless minority. They threaten their lives. It is truly shocking to me.

To anyone who still says "No, you can't compare Trump to Hitler", I say: Look at this list and tell me Trump isn't a vile, disgusting demagogue.

The only difference to Hitler being (thank fuck!) he's not hellbent on waging war on the entire world.