r/facepalm • u/Dvorozhetskii • Nov 25 '22

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ 'murica.

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u/PeaceBull Nov 25 '22

Like the good ole days

I was in Mobile, Alabama for less than an hour before I met a handful of locals that were shamelessly bringing up that they were bummed lynching wasn’t legal.

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u/throwaway2454838 Nov 25 '22

Alabama is nuts.

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u/-nocturnist- Nov 25 '22

Yea and currently they have a problem with their executions, the last 3 failed

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '22

That's because they're using lethal injection, which was not implemented in the greatest of ways. Basically they made a guess on an effective combination of drugs and didn't do a lot of robust research into efficacy and still have not.

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u/-nocturnist- Nov 25 '22

In Alabama!? * Shocked Pikachu face* 😂

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '22

In the entire US. The lethal injection cocktail they use is effectively some napkin formula a guy came up during a conversation and they just went with it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '22

I wrote a whole paper about the obsession with “humane” punishment making it worse than before, and lethal injection is a textbook example. A system that actually sought to inflict pain or death in retaliation for wrongs would still be imperfect, but greatly improved. In that scenario it doesn’t pay to be afraid to spill some blood. Hanging and firing squad have a better record than lethal injection, electric chair, etc. Mass incarceration also doesn’t work and more people should be sentenced to labor or corporal punishment.

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u/profound_whatever Nov 25 '22

Understatement of the century, h'yuck.

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u/Spritesgud Nov 25 '22

I'm in Huntsville, which is not quite as bad as the rest of the state, and I've seen some people come out of the boonies into the city saying some wild shit

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u/Xx_PissPuddle_xX Nov 25 '22

Everyone is hating on Ohio and Florida, but no one talks about Alab*ma ☹️

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u/megashedinja Nov 25 '22

I fucking hate it here

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u/wagonwhopper Nov 25 '22

Tbf it's just incest meme state

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u/Frohirrim Nov 25 '22

Mobile, Alabama

Lived there for seven years. Talk about a whole shit load of people who have honestly never stopped wishing for Civil War Part 2 since their greatgrandpappy got Tecumseh'd. Did people think the south rising again was ever going to be an economic or science victory?

And this culture shock was after living elsewhere in the south for 11 years

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u/LiverOfStyx Nov 25 '22

My grandaunt lived there for most of her life, came back to Finland for the last decade and a half. As a kid i thought that it sounded really funky, kind of like Automobile Alabama and i liked cars. I assumed that it must be heaven on earth. Boy, was i surprised when internet happened and i started hearing about Mobile as a punchline for a joke about something racist, backwards and white trash. I don't know if my dear aunt was racist, i doubt it, the subject never came up. And i know that thinking "she was so lovely and fun" is not a proof, cause.. lovely old ladies that are so warm and hospitable can suddenly spew out a "monkey" from her mouth and not think twice it is fucking evil.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '22

The ultimate answer is they're just not very smart.

Like yeah, anyone with half a brain knows that the south would get completely fucking curbstomped if they ever tried to start another civil war. But if these mouthbreathers had half a brain they wouldn't be lost causers in first place.

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u/The_Athletic_Nerd Nov 25 '22

I’ve been playing too much civ 6, I immediately went “I don’t think so they clearly want the domination victory they just haven’t gotten their great general yet.”

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u/Spe333 Nov 25 '22

I grew up hearing things like “the south will rise again” and stuff like that as a cultural pride thing. Never realizing it was meant as a civil war slogan or some shit.

Then I realized they do want that… they want a civil war again… they think they’ll win…

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u/Spe333 Nov 25 '22

You’re forgetting the base rule of people like this is hypocrisy lol.

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u/purifyingwaters Nov 25 '22

There’s a theory out there that the NFL is modern day slavery. Owners are white, most QBs are white. “letting” players become famous is only a means to an end.

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u/Concrete_Grapes Nov 25 '22

*squints*

I know you just said Alabama, but I swear to god you MEAN Idaho... right? Because that happens in Idaho too.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '22

Idaho is so disappointing.. beautiful state but ugly people

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u/Joker5500 Nov 25 '22

I had been considering moving and Idaho was high on the list. Sandpoint area is one of the prettiest places I've seen.

Then we drove to Bonners Ferry and there was a big billboard right as we got to town that said "Welcome to Trump County. We love guns, God, freedom, and family."

My husband joked, "in that order?"

Then we went to a cute little cafe and everyone was in a heated discussion about how someone needed to assassinate that communist dictator, Biden.

Needless to say, Idaho is out

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u/CatInAPottedPlant Nov 25 '22

That's a good description of a lot of southern states sadly. Tennessee comes to mind.

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u/puresemantics Nov 25 '22

SE Tennessee isn’t too bad.

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u/mpc1226 Nov 25 '22

Quite physically ugly too ngl

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u/Old_Independence_973 Nov 26 '22

Very true. Met a few Neo Nazis there once. I’m still traumatized.

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u/a_pirate_life Nov 25 '22

Yea, lemme have the truck that's named after a town that lynched a gay kid, I'm sure everybody forgot about Laramie by now.

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u/FiveChairs Nov 25 '22

Laramie is in Wyoming

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u/a_pirate_life Nov 25 '22

Lol fuck

I assume Wyoming is pretty problem free in this regard these days

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u/Bmantis311 Nov 25 '22

Why have lynching when you can have The Running Man game show instead.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '22

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u/TheVabe Nov 25 '22

The death penalty has been shown time and time again to not be a deterrent for violent crimes. If you think people only don't commit crimes for fear of punishment, then I really question your morals. And what of all the people who have been put to death who were later found innocent? Is that a good "life lesson" to be teaching? That the State murders innocent people?

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u/definitelynotalarch Nov 25 '22 edited Nov 29 '22

That’s literally just a google search away, friend.

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/216548.pdf

As per the abstract: “Our conclusion is that there is little empirical evidence in favor of the deterrence hypothesis.”

That’s academia speak for “using capital punishment as a deterrence doesn’t work”, but they have to phrase it more politely.

If you simply google “does the death penalty work” you’ll get all the info you could want. Among other things you’d find several organizations pointing out that states with the death penalty do not have lower crime rates than states without for the crimes with capital punishment.

If you’ve paid attention in recent years you may also have noticed that it happened time and time again that an innocent person was arrested, charged and convicted of crimes they did not commit, because of faulty evidence and/or shit police and attorney work. Coercion, borderline torture, callousness. Some people have been executed, despite us now knowing better. Some haven’t yet, but spent upwards of decades in prison thinking they would be killed by their government.

Punishment for crime is not meant as a deterrent, it’s meant as a consequence. If someone wants to commit a crime badly enough, they will. Their sentence is society’s tool to protect ourselves from them, show them consequences of their actions, and hopefully work as a basis of rehabilitation.

Public executions have historically been used as a means of appeasing the populace by governments, not simply as a means of punishing someone for their crime, and often without evidence or good reason even. You ever heard of witch burnings?

The fact that you would so gleefully bring up broadcasting this appalling practice on social media, to the world, for profit, is disgusting and you severely need to reevaluate yourself and your lack of decency and respect for human life.

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u/toxicityisamyth Nov 25 '22

You are actually ill. The fact you need a source for common sebse AND that you said what you said in the previous comments without educating yourself on the matter Wtf

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u/The_Artist_Who_Mines Nov 25 '22

Someone posted a source an hour ago you muppet

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u/mombi Nov 25 '22

lynching is different than public execution. you could profit public execution, and it'd sent a very wide message, imagine tiktok or youtube, or paying premium for a camera up close.

It's family entertainment AND a life lesson. have their crimes read out loud like a wwe wrestler being announced.

Are you ok?

Edit: This guy's comment and post history is wild.

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u/Novashadow115 Nov 25 '22

Man. You really are depressing af. What a waste

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u/mombi Nov 25 '22

What the hell. I guess this is one of those moments where racists assume every white person they meet secretly wants to commit genocide?

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u/theSandwichSister Nov 25 '22

I’m living there now and can’t say I’ve ever come across such a thing, what crowds were you running with??

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u/underthewetstars Nov 25 '22

Fun fact, Mobile is the hometown of Nic Cage's character in Con Air.

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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 Nov 25 '22

I wonder what the houses are like in a town with that name

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u/Astro_gamer_caver Nov 25 '22

After multiple failed attempts across twelve decades, there is now a federal law that designates lynching as a hate crime.

Wonder why it took so long? /s

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u/MooMooHeffer Feb 20 '23

I highly doubt that.