Biden’s voice was very faint and weak, unusually so.

Trump was Trump. Incoherent, but in a way that morons adore, apparently.

Lemmy isn’t that bad outside of the two ml instances. With certain exceptions. Seeing someone describe Haitian gangs as ‘angry revolutionaries’ is certainly bizarre.

I’ll edit it then.

“Would you like to kill me? Jk jk! Unless…? 👉👈🥺”

Uh, I don’t exactly know how you square that with the large number of countries which successfully overthrew their own dictators in the past century.

This is a new era, when reigning governments have discovered that you can just say ‘no’ to a coup.

Death sentence does not, and has never, worked as a deterrent.

The death penalty doesn’t work on irrational actors - ie the desperate and the mentally unwell. Those who commit most crimes. The death penalty as a deterrent to rational actors (such as opportunistic politicians) is very much part of the mental calculus that goes into decision-making.

It’s also super fucked to say “sometimes you gotta kill a guy cause too many people agree with him.”

No, that’s actually pretty normal. People agreeing with genocidal dictators is a bad thing, and taking out the dictator is greatly preferable to taking out all the people who agree.

I guess Gale’s, maybe? But the other three make their intentions clear pretty early on.

What a Chad move.

“W-we’re going to coup you…”

“You can’t. It’s literally illegal.”

[refuses to elaborate]

[refuses to leave]

Espionage outside of wartime is still done through the civilian courts, and treason trials (such as for an ousted genocidal dictator) would likely be done through civilian courts as well.

But yes, they’re generally more military/extreme edge cases that I feel the death penalty is warranted in. Murder? Theft? Taking up two parking spaces? Prison is good enough.

US States have no purpose applying capital punishment beyond revenge.

That I agree with.

Arce confronted the general commander of the Army — Juan José Zúñiga, who appeared to be leading the rebellion — in the palace hallway, as shown on video on Bolivian television. “I am your captain, and I order you to withdraw your soldiers, and I will not allow this insubordination,” Arce said.

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/nx-s1-5020668/bolivia-coup-attempt

1. The death penalty is an important bargaining tool with the spies of other countries in regards to serious cases of espionage.

2. It may be necessary to apply the death penalty in the case of a state in dire circumstances in which the release or escape of a prisoner may be regarded as deadly to the commonwealth - such as a dictator with large minority support or support amongst the elite still remaining being prosecuted for their crimes.

3. As deterrent in extreme matters of desertion, war crimes, or crimes against peace.

Fucking wild that a place where the sentiment of ‘eat the rich’ is commonly passed around recoils at the idea of executing a dictator after a trial if his crimes warrant it and there’s a reasonable threat that he could be sprung and returned to power by the elite or a radical minority.

Like, really?

“I’m in charge here.”

“Oh, fuck, you are? Let me check my chain of command- damn. Yep, says right here. I’ll go back to my barracks now and wait to be arrested.”

Peak noncredibility, I love how weird the world is some days.

One of many reasons I oppose the death penalty for almost all crimes.

… is something important enough to kill a 100 JFKs for.

To the Israelis, maybe. To Americans, Israeli money has become a polarizing issue over the past decade.

It’s a state sporting F35s and such.

Man, plenty of US allies are involved in the F-35 program and the US doesn’t bend over backwards for them. It’s really not that important in the grand scheme of US-Israeli relations.

Well, mixture of factors. One is that WW2 was winding up, and they didn’t have a strong need for it anymore - another that the plane didn’t perform as well as they hoped, and that jets were starting to be recognized as the next real ‘step’ in aircraft development, and jets really need to be made from scratch, not just slapped onto pre-existing designs. So eventually they just scrapped the whole thing.

Contrary to the delusions of realpolitik types, international relations are a matter of relations, not purely moment-to-moment vulture capitalist behavior. Israel is coasting on internal factors within the US government at present - the lack of actual mutual loyalty means that, should those internal factors (Israeli dark money and the political influence of evangelical millenarians) ever weaken, the institutions of the US will see little reason not to throw Israel to the wolves.

It’s awfully convenient that anything that could possibly lead to criticism of red fash is unacceptable to them.

I’ll submit a blank ballot before I vote for any of those pieces of shit.

We thank you for your privilege.

Their goal is to be loud and waste time and energy.