@Timjer #106356
What ultimately made me do a complete 180 on capital punishment was witnessing the rise of Trump, the alt right, and other subhuman fascist trash in my country and the savage, depraved, utterly inhuman shit they did or weren’t afraid to show their support for in public anymore, though it otherwise made me a full-blown leftist with strong anarchist sympathies. The world ain’t gonna stay a safe place for people like me while people like them are roaming free in it, and the minorities they threaten can’t shoot them on sight in self-defense. Either way, it would be more humane, quite frankly, to put the most genuinely dangerous genocidal maniacs among them to death than it would be to keep them confined in the sort of cages they jizzed themselves seeing immigrant children locked inside crying, children the American government re-placed kidnapped and housed imprisoned in detention facilities concentration camps.
Seeing shit like that happen in your own country changes you. Hell, “change” ain’t close to a strong enough word for what it does when you know full well that if these literal fascists keep getting their way, then your kind will eventually be the next round of degenerates lined up for extermination. But just when it looks like things are about to start turning around, the far right storm the capitol armed and ready for insurrection, and the only thing that stood between them and a much bloodier outcome with a congressional body count is the fact that authoritarians can barely change a lightbulb without a chain of command, and unlike the left, have little capacity for decentralized self-organization with minimal hierarchy.
Had that bloodier outcome happened, I doubt their insurrection attempt would have succeeded per se, but I also feel like it’d send my home country’s slow downward spiral into a rapid tailspin, one with a much harder impact blow when it hits whatever the rock bottom is gonna be before things start reversing course. I’m just glad I’ve given up my front-row seats, and I hope the inevitable collateral damage to the rest of the world stays as close to a minimum of its potential as it can.