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Should we crucify trash people?

Say we constructed an X on the White House lawn and we strapped Donald Trump to it and we just let him die there from whatever causes. Is that wrong?

How about we put some tech Bros next to him? The thieves and the liars? Mark Zuckerberg and Elon musk?

What are we waiting for? There’s infinite X’s.

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Replying to @⁨it_depends_man@lemmy.world⁩

You’re right. And besides, there’s definitely no negative consequences from letting them get away with everything and die happy and content in their beds after a full and rewarding life of greedily stealing, raping, and destroying society. Definitely our parents and grandparents refusal to put up some X’s isn’t the reason things are the way they are or anything.

Replying to @⁨Krusty@quokk.au⁩

No, and the reason we don’t is, we’re better than they are. It’s the same with the trials after World War II. Those who were responsible for all that suffering were put on trial. Some were sentenced to death, and it was generally far more merciful a death than they gave millions of others. Hanging or firing squad, I’d imagine.

Specific to Donald Trump, he is 80 years old and in poor health. Make him live in poverty like a person of colour who is LGBTQ+ in Detroit or some other decrepit American city and just let nature take its course. Also, maybe let some of those people he’s disenfranchised know where he’s at so they can air their grievances with him personally. You don’t have to do anything too elaborate. Oh, maybe give him a bottomless gift card to McDonald’s, speed up the process.

Elon Musk, harder to say. He’s done good things with Tesla and SpaceX. Future generations may look more kindly upon him. But he’s also done a lot of harm, too.

Not really my place to judge these people. I just think they should be judged.

Replying to @⁨Krusty@quokk.au⁩

Too quick of an end.

Give them a mortgage for a house in a small nothing town with little prospects and watch them make ends meet like any one else on minimum wage. Forbid them from running businesses and contacting anyone they already know to get handouts, make them a true nobody in a nowhere town.

What about their existing assets? Cease them and finally pay for things they spent decades paying officials to stop paying for like Healthcare, infrastructure, education.

Replying to @⁨Krusty@quokk.au⁩

Wow! That’s so cool that you even dare think that stuff. One moment of primal revenge could make up for the whole life you spent as a complacent part of the empire’s upper stratum. Even if the act is indistinguishable from purging a single corrupt official, or mailing people bombs to stop climate change, I think that having something in mind like “restore democracy from Trumpler’s grasp” can transform it into something powerful and politically effective. If you keep mentioning it at this rate, you’ll have a gallows on the white house lawn real soon.

In that vein, could you please ask a question about Trump every single day, to make sure that you feel better when you go back to vote for another pedophile who sets thousands of children ablaze for the petrodollar?

Replying to @⁨DudleyMason@lemmy.ml⁩

What you’re experiencing is called poor literacy. You are like a dog trained to take plainly-stated advertisements at face value. That is to say, very impressive, and the most super good boy. But aphasic in the face of criticism. Must be American. Lol, so, what org follows this interpretation of an infantile disorder that supports performative activism (this is its most pathetic form yet, plaintively asking if they should hypothetically do something) tailing the democratic party? Are you in the DSA? Are you alone, spinning in the wind, not understanding a word on the pages you are handed by other FDR stans? Or are you really under the impression I haven’t read this, and think it will reinforce my take?