The Atlas Asylum of absurd/ignorant posts IX

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

We're all for second chances. We just don't think people who are attracted to first graders deserve one.

You know, like normal people.

It's funny that we finally find a position where I'm more left than you.  I've always felt that the sex offender registry should be eliminated. Why are you still punished for your crime after leaving prison?  If you've completed your sentence, you've completed your sentence.  If the government doesn't feel you're ready to safely re-enter society, you shouldn't be in that society.  Let's get rid of this grey zone, especially when it's basically a scarlet letter for life that makes it difficult to find employment or build a social network, greatly increasing the chance that you rescind.

I feel this way about all crimes -- make criminal records private, give ex-felons full civil rights, get rid of the criminal history form on employment applications -- but the sex offender one is a particularly strange case because it only exists for one subset of crimes.  If you killed fifty people, you get out of prison and are considered rehabilitated, but if you raped a 17 year old decades ago, you still have to walk around the neighborhood and tell everyone the day you move in.

Anyway, this isn't the Individual Politics board.  I just think it's pretty desperate and disgusting to try and attack Shontel because she let this guy get involved in community event organizing 15 years after he completed his sentence.

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[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

We're all for second chances. We just don't think people who are attracted to first graders deserve one.

You know, like normal people.

It's funny that we finally find a position where I'm more left than you.  I've always felt that the sex offender registry should be eliminated. Why are you still punished for your crime after leaving prison?  If you've completed your sentence, you've completed your sentence.  If the government doesn't feel you're ready to safely re-enter society, you shouldn't be in that society.  Let's get rid of this grey zone, especially when it's basically a scarlet letter for life that makes it difficult to find employment or build a social network, greatly increasing the chance that you rescind.

I feel this way about all crimes -- make criminal records private, give ex-felons full civil rights, get rid of the criminal history form on employment applications -- but the sex offender one is a particularly strange case because it only exists for one subset of crimes.  If you killed fifty people, you get out of prison and are considered rehabilitated, but if you raped a 17 year old decades ago, you still have to walk around the neighborhood and tell everyone the day you move in.

Anyway, this isn't the Individual Politics board.  I just think it's pretty desperate and disgusting to try and attack Shontel because she let this guy get involved in community event organizing 15 years after he completed his sentence.

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Why bold that part?   The entire post is making a argument supporting it.  Do you think the argument is absurd in some way, or only the conclusion which follows from it? 

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Meclazine on drug addicts:

All you can do is round them up, put them on a convict boat and ship.them half way around the world and forget about them for 250 years.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

Meclazine on drug addicts:

All you can do is round them up, put them on a convict boat and ship.them half way around the world and forget about them for 250 years.

The mental gymnastics our culture has taken is astonishing, really. Drug abuse, a crime that only negatively affects the user themself, deserves a punishment akin to mass murderers and pedophile networks. Either you're missing the point of saving drug abusers from themselves, or you're a psychopath.

[Donerail]

I believe Meclazine is Australian and making a joke about Australians.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I believe Meclazine is Australian and making a joke about Australians.

Pretty clearly. It's as clear as light and day.
Even if he wasn't joking though, I would strongly, strongly disagree with the idea that drug abuse is something negatively impacting only the user, but debating that is not something for which this thread is the right venue.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Hodgkins got 8 months in prison.

Too long.

[Big Abraham]

Hodgkins got 8 months in prison.

8 years would be more appropriate.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The court ruled that deadnaming trans seniors constitutes "an ideological disagreement with another person’s expressed gender identity," and therefore is somehow protected as free speech. Lunacy.

You cannot disagree with what someone's gender is

I wonder if the free speech gang will uphold the rights of nurses to call patients racial slurs because of “ideological disagreements”.

I think it should be illegal.

Authoritarians are deranged. Fortunately none of you will ever have the control over people and their minds that you so obviously, desperately desire. And fortunately there is still enough sanity and principle left in the courts of this country to strike down attempts by your like-minded comrades in Commiefornia to implement such control.

That being said, it is true that people who refuse to do their jobs and treat patients with respect can be fired or punished in the workplace for it. But that’s a concern of the employer, not the state. The rush to make everything a criminal offense punishable by the state is seriously disturbing. As is the left’s mockery and downplaying of free speech as somehow a right-wing concern these days. I wish I could say this thread was the first time I’d seen that but sadly it’s far from it.

You're from a state that elects Bitch McConnell and you're calling folks deranged?

[Geoffrey Howe]

The right eventually needs to be permanently removed from political relevance for racism to end on a large scale. It is the right-wing who is always talking about race and the left only talks about it in response.

[Hammy]

This is the equivalent of prosecuting Jesus to modern day Democrats.

On the topic of Republicans prosecuting Fauci for not being a Trump yes-man.

[darklordoftech]

France doesn't have a drinking age and its a racist, anti-Semetic sh**thole, what does that tell you.

[Mechavada]

France doesn't have a drinking age and its a racist, anti-Semetic sh**thole, what does that tell you.

I've never been to France, I have no idea what it's like, but I would imagine that there's probably at least a few people who have issues with anti-Semitism there.

See folks. .  . . how good it feels to assume the best of places you haven't been?  I'd encourage more of you to try it.

[Hammy]

I'm spitting straight facts, always sourced, and you seem to be unable to accept them, relying instead on outdated information or outright lies. Mighty Trumpist of you. How many red hats do you have in your closet? Do you think Biden won the 2020 election fairly?

"Spitting facts" says the person whose reply is filled with nothing but smears.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

France doesn't have a drinking age and its a racist, anti-Semetic sh**thole, what does that tell you.

I've never been to France, I have no idea what it's like, but I would imagine that there's probably at least a few people who have issues with anti-Semitism there.

See folks. .  . . how good it feels to assume the best of places you haven't been?  I'd encourage more of you to try it.

One thing you'll learn about me is that 50% of my posts are interesting TL posts, 25% are solid predictions, 15% are complaining that my Scott-Baker-Collins wing of the party is underrepresented, 9% are completely random sh**t that would seem out of place in anything but someone tweeting from their bathroom drunk at 3:00AM, and 1% are insane blaming of the Kennedys for everything.

[Mechavada]

France doesn't have a drinking age and its a racist, anti-Semetic sh**thole, what does that tell you.

I've never been to France, I have no idea what it's like, but I would imagine that there's probably at least a few people who have issues with anti-Semitism there.

See folks. .  . . how good it feels to assume the best of places you haven't been?  I'd encourage more of you to try it.

One thing you'll learn about me is that 50% of my posts are interesting TL posts, 25% are solid predictions, 15% are complaining that my Scott-Baker-Collins wing of the party is underrepresented, 9% are completely random sh**t that would seem out of place in anything but someone tweeting from their bathroom drunk at 3:00AM, and 1% are insane blaming of the Kennedys for everything.

Well you certainly are one of the more honest people on here .  My respects.

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

to be fair, most Dems don't remember anything before Obama and refuse to learn history

[Pro-Israel, anti-Bibi]

to be fair, most Dems don't remember anything before Obama and refuse to learn history

Ah yes, the Dems are the party that not only refuses to learn history, but is banning the teaching of history, too. Big brain moment.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

France doesn't have a drinking age and its a racist, anti-Semetic sh**thole, what does that tell you.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Isn’t it a HIPPA violation to ask diners their vaccination status?

[beaver2.0]

Isn’t it a HIPPA violation to ask diners their vaccination status?

That’s a joke.  That’s what the extra P is for.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

France doesn't have a drinking age and its a racist, anti-Semetic sh**thole, what does that tell you.

We've already had this one.

[Roll Roons]

Besides, looking at this from a purely political perspective, if you're a Democrat why would you be opposed to this media coverage of Delta? They're not blaming the Biden administration in any way and are basically portraying the surge as an act of God due to a much more powerful variant. They're keeping the "state of pandemic" going, but that's great for Democrats! Joe Biden's approval rating on handling COVID-19 is consistently 5-10 points higher than his overall approval rating, so if people are still thinking about the pandemic in 2022, they'd be more likely to vote Democratic.

What you don't want is for people to have forgotten about the pandemic by 2022, give Biden no credit for it when voting, and vote according to the usual issues along their usual partisan allegiances, which would put the Democrats in serious jeopardy of losing the House. Shouldn't you be wanting the pandemic to continue for as long as possible so people are constantly reminded of how badly Trump bungled it and Biden continually looks like the "adult in the room"?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Obviously not.

The fact that citizens typically combine 97 to 99 percent of their votes for the two major political parties—not just for U.S. President—more than likely has Jesus Christ not taking the electorate seriously.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Trump should be indicted for each of these officers's murder.