• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    My point is that he killed, whether he was holding a gun or a pen; he caused people to die on purpose. He is a mudderer. I don’t give a shit if he ever pulled a trigger, and deserved much worse than the hanging he got. As do his modern counterparts.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      he caused people to die on purpose. He is a mudderer.

      We can definitely talk about Social Murder as a phenomenon.

      But I think it’s a bit too cutesy by half to assert a man climbed his way up the ranks of the SS in the middle of an insurrection in order to lead its mass extermination division managed it without ever getting his hands dirty.

      I don’t give a shit if he ever pulled a trigger

      I think we’re going to see folks who come out of the ICE recruitment of the Trump Two era who will also rise through the ranks and become mass murderers. I think we’ve already got guys like that - Ron DeSantis famously oversaw torture at Guantanamo Bay as attendant legal counsel - in positions of power.

      They’ll all be able to look you in the face with dead fucking eyes and say “Prove I did anything wrong”. And I think quite a few liberals will nod and shrug and say “I guess the Rule of Law says we can’t do anything now that all the folks who could contradict this claim are in an unmarked grave”.

      This is the wedge that lets these creeps crawl into power to begin with. Willful ignorance of the crimes of this country only serve to give sociopaths a ladder to climb.