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[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 117 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's always funny to me how western media tries to frame this as a bad thing.

"Not even their elites are safe from their government!" Oh no, how terrible that they face consequences for their actions like the rest of us

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago

That was one of the weirdest parts of a really awful interview Zizek did, "The most dangerous place to be was on top" under Stalin and that this was worse than what the Nazis did.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

lmao the higher ups have more power, therefore more responsibility and culpability for wrongdoing, therefore they are more severely punished. What a fucking mystery that the people who did the most wrong had the most power?

What a fucking astute observation by brain genius Zizek

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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 74 points 2 years ago
[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not a fan of the death penalty, but this is one way to do it.

You get two years to not fuck up, and if you manage that it gets reduces to a life sentence or some other fixed sentence

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 81 points 2 years ago

I'm not really a fan of the death penalty for normal human crimes, but I kinda don't mind it for bourgeois crimes.

[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

I was thinking about this in regards to the death penalty in revolutionary societies, I feel like there's a distinction to be made between 'circumstantial' crimes like theft or murder, where someone has to be in a particular place and time etc., they could be motivated by economic hardship, they could even just be innocent - versus 'structural' crimes where their guilt is a result of their position in an organization that cannot be deflected.

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[-] axont@hexbear.net 62 points 2 years ago

When westerners try to bring up social credit scores, this is what they're fearmongering about. They're afraid of wealthy parasites facing even an ounce of consequences.

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago

I'm not for the death penalty, but if we're gonna have it, this is what it should be used for

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago

Good news, the actual sentence in reality is life in prison. This ruling nearly always is commuted to life in prison

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[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago

God I wish we did this kind of thing in the West

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

Two year reprieve meaning in two years they still stretch his neck or give him the Ol Yeller treatment or whatever?

Thats a long time to think about whats coming, frankly. If theyre going to end his life just fucking do it already. My dislike of the death penalty is tempered a hair by the fact that this jackwagon is of the bourgeois class but two years just seems like a needless holiday. Either do it or dont.

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago

They give him 2 years to not fuck up.

If he does 💀

If he doesn't, it gets commuted to life or some other sentence.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago

More like a suspended sentence, where he gets two years to prove he's not doing any more crimes or he gets the chop. Still comes with a life sentence at the end of the suspension instead of it being considered served though.

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[-] Grimble@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

Incredible things are happening in China

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