Being a gang member is legal and freedom of association is, implicitly, part of our 1st Amendment rights.
Either they have an actual crime, evidence, and conviction or it's all legally irrelevant. I understand that it's politically relevant, I just want to underscore how little the law matters to these folks.
Not what I would do, but the safest way is to villify then execute small and unpopular minorities (in the minority/majority sense) and then cater to the monolithic block that emerges. Super evil but it works.
I sound even more southern than I am because I say "y'all" frequently to avoid gendered pronouns. People, you, and we are often good. I think my favorite is "you folks".
I'm having trouble figuring out the math for this. My assumptions lead me to divide $30b by 8b people, which is about $4/person. I'm not confident that people can eat on $4 for a year.
I'm assuming that you have never lived in the rural South. The people who disproportionately suffer from the impact of the Civil War and reconstruction are poor and black.
I'm with you on hanging traitors, but a more devastated South would not have been good for anyone.
Being a gang member is legal and freedom of association is, implicitly, part of our 1st Amendment rights.
Either they have an actual crime, evidence, and conviction or it's all legally irrelevant. I understand that it's politically relevant, I just want to underscore how little the law matters to these folks.