• mommykink@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The bare minimum of basic empathy and justice is a headline for the Texas penal system. Sounds about right.

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    7 months ago

    In 2002 the late Robbin Williams did a stand up special on HBO. This is a quote from said special:

    Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court banned the execution of retarded people. People in Texas are going, “Shit, where’s the fun in that?” Man, they were zapping retarded people every other week. It would be like, “OK, go sit on Santa’s lap, Timmy.” BZZT.

    That was 22 years ago, and Texas is just catching up now? That smells an awful lot like eugenics TBH.

    BTW the entire show is on youtube https://youtube.com/watch?v=HYSd6sjlufM (but use the link that I’m sure will be in a comment shortly)

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      7 months ago

      It’s hard to tell with Texas since the stench of eugenics just hangs in the air all the time.

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    7 months ago

    Any place killing off their own people is a shit hole. You might fight me, but probably wont change my mind.

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      7 months ago

      Don’t worry, the prolifers* only want post-partem abortion legal!

      Autocorrect strikes again.