The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread 36

[Cutlass]

How did Trump get himself elected in Venezuela?

Clones.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

While poking around on the Wayback Machine, I noticed there were multiple captures of Tom Petty's official site on the day that he died. Does anybody know why this happen?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

How did Trump get himself elected in Venezuela?

I'd guess more or less the same way he got elected in the US. The electorate is demonstrably self destructive. Always has been, but they are now starting to really flex their power. Totalitarianism is at hand, because it may be the only way to save them from themselves.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

While poking around on the Wayback Machine, I noticed there were multiple captures of Tom Petty's official site on the day that he died. Does anybody know why this happen?

I suspect that their crawlers tend to follow activity, and on that day the site was probably pretty active. Generally, a site with more traffic is getting more updates so 'follow the traffic' is probably a good guideline generally, though in this case the crawlers would be mislead.

 

[Takhisis]

How did Trump get himself elected in Venezuela?

I'd guess more or less the same way he got elected in the US. The electorate is demonstrably self destructive. Always has been, but they are now starting to really flex their power. Totalitarianism is at hand, because it may be the only way to save them from themselves.

There's a thread for that, but Chávez and Maduro actually do that thing which Trump only threatens to and send the troops in to do… well, anything. Supermarket checkouts, arbitrary kidnappings and tortures, running petrol stations and convenience stores, smuggling cocaine via Cuba into the US, build sports stadia, anything, really, so sending them in to stop the opposition from voting is standard procedure.

 

[Mouthwash]

Totalitarianism is at hand, because it may be the only way to save them from themselves.

So glad we could be honest here.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

So glad we could be honest here.

I always am. That's why I never try to sugarcoat what I think about your country.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What would happen if you dropped an abridged edition of a book into a river?

 

[Arakhor]

It would get wet and become drenched comparatively faster than the unabridged version.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's terrible when you have a pun you want to use but can't think of a suitable punchline for it.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

What would happen if you dropped an abridged edition of a book into a river?

It would result in people only being able to cross halfway due to a decreased attention span.

 

[caketastydelish]

Dylan Roof got sentenced to death over 2 years ago. Why haven't they just done it yet? Serious question.

 

[sophie]

Dylan Roof got sentenced to death over 2 years ago. Why haven't they just done it yet? Serious question.

Average time an inmate spends on death row is something like 12 years. Appeals, commutations, and internal scrutiny lengthen the process. If you're going to take a person's life, you'd better make damn sure you're 100% correct in the decision (not just guilt, but degree of guilt, correspondence between degree of guilt and decided punishment, factors that may have contributed to the act and could invalidate the sentence (i.e. mental health), making sure the cops and prosecutors did their jobs properly and weren't cutting corners. The wheels of justice turn slowly.

Should the state be given the power to kill somebody in their custody? No, certainly not.
Given that the state has this power, is it moral that the state makes someone sit on death row for so long, almost certainly to be killed, but having to wait for years, sometimes even decades in agony waiting for the axe to finally drop? No, certainly not.

 

[caketastydelish]

There is 0% doubt that he did it and 0% doubt that he deserves it.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

There is 0% doubt that he did it and 0% doubt that he deserves it.

While that may be true of some people - Canada has several notorious murderers who are unquestionably guilty and their crimes were heinous, but we no longer have the death penalty and good thing since several innocent people were finally freed after years or even decades - the laws have to apply to everyone equally.

So that means that although Paul Bernardo (serial rapist who murdered two of his victims), Robert Pickton (murdered 49 women and dismembered their bodies), and the Shafiya family (murdered the 3 oldest daughters and the first wife in an "honor" killing) get to stay alive, it also means that the wrongfully convicted people are still alive to be released after they've been proved innocent.

 

[caketastydelish]

This guy is too dangerous to be left alive.

1) while unlikely, it is possible he escapes... this is especially true with high profile prisoners. It happened with that Mexican drug lord guy (El Chapo) did I think on multiple occasions.

If other nazi skinheads in his jail collaborated together they might get him free. But even without that, he can his message of hate to the other prisoners to brainwash them as he has been.

Finally, killing him sends a message to other white supremacists to not do the same thing or they would fear they suffer the same fate.

 

[Mouthwash]

This guy is too dangerous to be left alive.

1) while unlikely, it is possible he escapes... this is especially true with high profile prisoners. It happened with that Mexican drug lord guy (El Chapo) did I think on multiple occasions.

If other nazi skinheads in his jail collaborated together they might get him free. But even without that, he can his message of hate to the other prisoners to brainwash them as he has been.

Finally, killing him sends a message to other white supremacists to not do the same thing or they would fear they suffer the same fate.

Spoiler NSFW :

 

[Cutlass]

There is 0% doubt that he did it and 0% doubt that he deserves it.

So you suspend the institutions that protect the people where there may be doubt just because you're convinced there's no doubt in this case?

 

[Kaitzilla]

This guy is too dangerous to be left alive.

1) while unlikely, it is possible he escapes... this is especially true with high profile prisoners. It happened with that Mexican drug lord guy (El Chapo) did I think on multiple occasions.

If other nazi skinheads in his jail collaborated together they might get him free. But even without that, he can his message of hate to the other prisoners to brainwash them as he has been.

Finally, killing him sends a message to other white supremacists to not do the same thing or they would fear they suffer the same fate.

Even Sith Lords deserve a fair trial.

The most dangerous actual prisoner who killed a cop, the judge, and a reporter still got a 2nd trial after they washed away the blood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nichols

The jury deliberated for twelve hours, over two days, before finding Nichols guilty of all 54 counts, on November 7, 2008.[33]

On December 13, 2008, Nichols was sentenced to multiple life sentences with no chance of parole. Bodiford handed down the maximum sentence on each of the charges, to run consecutively. Nichols was spared multiple death sentences when the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision, as required by Georgia law, to recommend the death penalty. Bodiford said, "If there was any more I could give you, I would."[34] Nichols is incarcerated in Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison.

 

[caketastydelish]

So you suspend the institutions that protect the people where there may be doubt just because you're convinced there's no doubt in this case?

Wasn't this on camera? There's no way they have the wrong guy.