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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by yapyap on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @08:32AM (#42387491)
the problem with vigilanate justice is not that it doesn’t work, it’s very effective.

The problem is that the vigilante might not have the right version of justice

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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @08:37AM (#42387536)
A worked example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by mrguyorama on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:54AM (#42389806)
A better example in the US is the thousands of innocent black men who have been hanged from a tree because "everyone knows they did it"
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by peterfirefly on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @12:15PM (#42390096)
Plenty of whites were lynched too.

(And plenty of the black and whites were guilty.)

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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @04:23PM (#42393131)
If the USA does have "Years of lead" then the quantity and quality of firearms (e.g. military grade assault rifles) will make it far worse.

"Years of lead" in a political sense I mean. In a more general sense, you already are in "Years of lead".

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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by Cumpiler69 on Thursday December 12, 2024 @08:28AM (#42398946)
>A better example in the US is the thousands of innocent black men who have been hanged from a tree because "everyone knows they did it"

Atrocities against people were committed using this logic since the dawn of humanity. The bigger problem is this way of thinking is used to justify the vilification of people even to this day. See debates on supporting US election candidates.

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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by morkalork on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @08:42AM (#42387583)
That's a great argument for keeping the official system neutral and uncorrupted but given how things are going, it's kinda too late for that.
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by Cumpiler69 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @08:37AM (#42387532)
Kinda yeah. The problem is when you allow for vigilante justice, it can easily also turn against you at some point.

Someone one day might decide that your mom/dad broke law and evaded justice and it's therefore OK to un-alive them because the court system failed.

Which is why countries where vigilante justice is common are significantly more dangerous and worse to live in than where it's not.

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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by buzzerbetrayed on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:36AM (#42388807)
This isn’t TikTok. You can say kill and murder. Jesus.
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