#then yeah. death penalty

[femmefitz]

I can't imagine romancing anyone in persona 5 except maybe Ann. All the other girls it makes no sense to me. And I think the adult women should die honestly.

[saudrag]

jim, when he finally understood spock’s reasoning in menagerie, part 2: spock! you could’ve just told me! (and i would’ve broke the rules for you)

spock, as noble and kind as he is: and make you face the death penalty too? no… one of us is enough

[lgbtlunaverse]

One underdiscussed aspect of the bone-deep lack of mutual understanding during the nieyao stairs scene is that Nie Mingjue doesn't know - and can't know - what he's actually asking of Jin Guangyao. Not because he doesn't understand how his father treats him, or how tenuous his position is. But because he has no clue Xue Yang is a demonic cultivator.

Remember: Nie Mingjue is still alive, which means the position of chief cultivator doesn't exist yet and Jin Guangshan is facing heavy pushback for suggesting it. Most of that is coming from a fear that the Jin will try to become the next Wen. So having an outer disciple murder an entire clan and then not even punish him properly? This is a collosally bad move politically! You might as well be waving a red flag around yelling "I want to kill other sects with impunity!" There's a reason that years in the future, the moment Jin Guangyao becomes acting sect leader, he will immediately order Xue Yang's death (He doesn't actually die, either by accident or on purpose on jgy's part. But the point is that as far as the public is concerned he had Xue Yang executed.)

From Nie Mingjue's perspective, Jin Guangshan just shot himself in the foot politically for some random outer disciple. It's morally wrong, but it's also incredibly fucking stupid. In his eyes, he is asking Jin Guangyao to do the glaringly obvious right thing, even when exclusively looking at the Jins' self-interest. The thing that surely everyone else in the Jin also wants Jin Guangshan to do! Jin Guangyao can say that he has no influence on his father all he wants, but it is obvious how much work he does and so, as much as his father may not respect him, he clearly at least trusts Jin Guangyao's competence. Nie Mingjue has already tried shouting directly at Jin Guangshan during the trial and it seemed to work, but then Jin Guangshan went back on his decision like a complete idiot. So now Nie Mingjue is asking the guy who is famous for being good at rhetoric and convincing people to convince his donkey of a father to do the obviously correct thing with minimal downsides because again, to Nie Mingjue, this is all about some random outer disciple. It makes sense to ask this! It's a pretty reasonable request! Jin Guangshan can't possibly care that much.

Except of course he does. Because Xue Yang isn't some random outer disciple. He's the only good shot Jin Guangshan has at recreating the yin tiger tally. And Jin Guangshan reaaaaaally wants the yin tiger tally. So bad that he is fully willing to tank an ungodly amount of political goodwill to get it. Jin Guangyao is fully aware that not only will Jin Guangshan never kill Xue Yang, he isn't planning on keeping him locked up either. In fact, after Nie Mingjue is dead, he'll free Xue Yang and strongarm Chang Ping into denying the guilt of his family's murderer. Jin Guangshan cares a lot about keeping Xue Yang in his employ.

And Jin Guangyao knows this. But he can't tell Nie Mingjue that! Because then he'd have to admit they've been doing demonic cultivation. That the fucking ghost geneal is in their basement. That, oopsie, they actually also killed a whole other entire clan just a while ago after framing their sect leader for an assasination attempt and then used their bodies as fodder to make more fierce corpses. You know, in case one mass murder wasn't enough!

So obviously he's not gonna say that. Which means Nie Mingjue has no idea what he's demanding from Jin Guangyao, and therefore no idea why he absolutely can't fullfill that request.

I get why it's not mentioned very often because there are a lot of other problems which are both more obvious and more fun to talk about. (Who doesn't love a little overcomplicated trolley problem?) But I think it adds just another layer to the chasm between them in this scene. They're not just disagreeing, they're having completely different conversations.

[saintlucretia]

i can literally go feral over a villain and still his death scene in the end feels satisfying.

he is so awful and gruesome that i would kill him myself but he is kinda smash u know😉

HELP

[kaurwreck]

I need to know (feel free to answer this with a serious or joking (or both) answer. I love your takes either way), you've been chosen to be his defense lawyer, how would you defend light yagami in court?

I would avoid trial, I don't think Light is defensible in court. To do so, I would break down pages from the Death Note into pulp that I would press into unlined paper and bleach. Then I would print all of my motions on such paper so that the judge and the court staff inadvertently touch the Death Note pages. After which, I would send Ryuk (bribing him with apples, of course) to sit on their chests like a sleep paralysis demon every night, keeping them awake and taunting them until the sleep deprivation and horror drove them mad or forced them into early retirement.

And I would keep doing that, going through judges until Ryuk got bored and killed Light, or me, or both of us.

[healpimp]

saw somebody claim the stickybomb launcher was too ugly for demoman and he should use the half zatoichi instead. disgraceful thoughts like this should be punishable by death, perhaps by tying them to a rocket going into space

[o-sunny-day]

finals week has broken me.

[lastoneout]

Tbh I have a lot of complicated feelings about the whole OceanGate thing and I'm not really a fan of how this is being treated as The Evergiven 2, but as it becomes more and more likely that the sub suffered a critical failure and imploded days ago my main thought is that visiting the Titanic's wreck should be in the same category as climbing Mt. Everest; a pointless, unfathomably dangerous, disrespectful excursion that should not be allowed, or at least regulated and reserved for experts who know what they're doing to conduct research and/or matinance.

I mean like at this point I don't even think the average person should know where Titanic is. What is the benefit? All it leads to is death and the disruption and/or potential destruction of a mass gravesite that also doubles as a unbelievably valuable historic artifact that will not be around forever. Why the hell are people just allowed to go down there?? We don't let people go rub their hands all over the Mona Lisa, and that wouldn't even kill anyone, why can billionaires just go tromping around in far more deadly and fragile locations, especially ones where hundreds of people have already died?

But yeah idk there's no real point in adding my input to the discussion and I kinda don't want to comment on it beyond this anyway, but the whole situation sucks and def makes it clear there are simply some things people should not be allowed to do no matter how much goddamn money they have.

[gender-euphowrya]

honestly the whole punkitt situation rn is just a blaring example of how So much discourse isn't judged on what's being said but how it's phrased and if you don't use the exact magic words a person will deem acceptable (they will not tell you which !) they are going to absolutely rip you to shreds even if you said something correct

[probablygayattorneys]

My brother and I were talking about Resetti, from Animal Crossing, of all things, and he suddenly said “The last time I saw Kyle was in the electric chair. He just looked so tired.” And I said “WHAT?” And he said “He had been running for so long.” And I said “KYLE HYDE?!” And he nodded solemnly and refused to elaborate.

[fleetwoodmoth]

I think why I don't like the MHA ending is cause I don't believe in the death penalty for children???

[dramatic-dolphin]

https://www.tumblr.com/dramatic-dolphin/776987244030525440/you-are-not-going-to-believe-this-but-that-is?source=share

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I don't necessarily think that saying "rapists and pedophiles should be castrated" is inherently fascist. You are right though that people will make it their life mission to include as many people within the definition of what a rapist or a pedophile is. But that just makes it so that kind of punishment cannot be used... Idk ethically? (My mind went kinda blank here trying to describe what i mean) Not that castration as a punishment towards rapists and pedophiles is wrong or unjustified. Or at least your argument is not a good one for it being wrong or unjustified. Just that the risk for it being abused makes it near impossible to actually practice, much less on a large scale.

oh yeah it's not inherently fascist to say that. missing context: i saw a post of self-described feminists (terfs) cheeeing at italian fascist giorgia meloni's "castrating rapists" policy. they are the "you guys" in the "you guys are so stupid" haha. that's why i wantes to make it clear first and foremost that the politicians advocating for this are NOT on your side even if you seem to believe the same thing.

tbh i don't believe things like "rapists and pedophiles should be castrated and killed" are justified on principle, but that's honestly irrelevant. it's much much more important to focus on practical reasons, aka "here is how this can and will be used against innocents". i may not ever be able to convince people based on abstract moral philosophy grounds about how everyone deserves bodily autonomy, even horrible people, and that's totally fine to me. i don't mind if you believe that some people do deserve to suffer or die and so on, the most important part is acknowledging why putting that into law or practice would set a horrible precedent. the practical always trumps the theoretical.

it's like the death penalty, really. the question "does anyone really deserve to die?" is secondary to "would i trust any government with this power?" that risk of misuse is the most important part imo.

[free-luigi-mangione]

i wonder if south park is ever gonna mention him, diddy is appearing on the new season

i wish more shows or celebrities mentioned him but in a good light :/ like the linkin park reference or like finneas posted him on his story not like snl

not sure about south park specifically, but yes!!! i really hope we see more positive support for Luigi in the coming days!!! it would help a lot!!

[donovankinard]

hey hey hey im not a fan of trump (obviously) but!!!! nobody deserves to die at the hand of gun violence. nobody deserves to die at the hand of anyone else. nobody deserves to die on a public stage, nobody deserves to die at the hands of a political extremist. nobody deserves to be shot to death. not even the literal scum of the earth. nobody deserves to be murdered. and i cant believe that actually has to be said.

[whatifijustmashedwordstogether]

I can't even believe this (no actually I can), but as a closeted trans Singaporean, this feels like it could definitely lead to a lot of future issues esp. with acceptance (which is already an uphill battle), and as most evidently seen - a further lack of access to hormones and surgery needed to physically transition.

Ofc you don't have to physically transition to be valid, but the sheer act of treating the providing of hormones and puberty blockers as a "public health risk" by the ministry of health is only going to further stigmatise trans people here, and how people and parents react to trans teens asking for them. Not that it isn't already happening, but it'll get worse.

hate it here 😔😔

terrible news but alas. hopefully it'll get better in 2025 but it'll be an uphill battle - but one that will definitely be worth it.

(also fuck the laws surrounding protests here. can't believe we legally can't without a permit. And also with what's happening with POFMA?)

Oh yeah and the stuff with the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulations Act (POFMA ).

It's completely unreasonable and unjust for the government to use this act to prevent free speech and protesting. Especially seen after the anti-death row protests.

It's absolutely a gross misuse of power to use the label of misinformation to hide and conceal information - and even to use the law to make activists retract what they say in order to force a false sense of "harmony" and "unity". But like- forcing these things under the rug is really what has always been done to seem united publicly.

The above link is the first time someone has publicly stood up to its use and that's amazing.

The last person to be killed by state execution by the government was Masoud Rahimi who was 20 at the time - a minor according to sg law.

He was supposed to have a hearing this year on 20 Jan 2025 to constitutionally challenge the Post Appeal in Capital Cases Act but you know what? They had him executed on 28 Nov 2024.

https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/PACCA2022

Anyways, if you're from Singapore, please fill out the following petition:

Read more here

Also to people in general if you are able to donate, pls do so here:

More info about Masoud Rahimi here:

[khaosssss]

i just got called an edog what the hell man

anyways rant in tags. ignore if you like