Ragitsu

To quote George Carlin: "I leave symbols to the symbol minded." Trump set the bar so low that a weak hop over it is seen as impressive; I'll be impressed once substance takes precedence over speech. There's a real danger that another right-wing nationalist able to tap into that populist verve is going to raise the necessary support in another four years' time, unless a whole bunch of actual progress is made by this new administration. I hope Biden can help direct the nation as best he can past COVID-19 and that should count for quite a bit come the next election, but it won't be everything if there's a three to three-and-a-half year buffer in the interim; we know that the public's collective memory can be astoundingly short-term.
 
P.S. I'm not interested in hearing the word "unity" unless it is preceded by the word "accountability".

Policy over pomp.

To quote George Carlin: "I leave symbols to the symbol minded." Trump set the bar so low that a weak hop over it is seen as impressive; I'll be impressed once substance takes precedence over speech. There's a real danger that another right-wing nationalist able to tap into that populist verve is going to raise the necessary support in another four years' time, unless a whole bunch of actual progress is made by this new administration. I hope Biden can help direct the nation as best he can past COVID-19 and that should count for quite a bit come the next election, but it won't be everything if there's a three to three-and-a-half year buffer in the interim; we know that the public's collective memory can be astoundingly short-term.
 
P.S. I'm not interested in hearing the word "unity" unless it is preceded by the word "accountability".

... Pattern recognition is an amazing thing. I'll be in my bunk.

It is a depraved act no matter who is being discussed. "Prison justice" is right down there with "frontier justice" and "mob justice".

As I read that "mob justice", I see a certain irony.  Agreed that "You should get what you were trying to give" is vengeance, not justice.

Can't say I've ever been comfortable with prison rape jokes.

Can't say I've ever been comfortable with prison rape jokes.

Batman: great in comics...not so much in real-life.

It probably depends a lot on which particular group of people are taking part in the discussion.
 
I took your comment as a joke rather than a sincere wish on your part that such things happen or your genuine views on how prisons should be run.
 
 
 
As for a theory on criminal justice: Personally, I think a judge should sentence a convicted criminal to the exact punishment which we as a society want him to get. And that he shouldn't get anything additional.
 
If we want someone to get bad food in prison, abuse from the guards, and rape from the other prisoners, we should sentence him to those things so that it's our choice as a society to give him that. And that such things not happen as a result of neglect or some people on the inside taking the law into their own hands.

Agreed, should not be a feature of our criminal justice system. 

Can't say I've ever been comfortable with prison rape jokes.

I cannot help but wonder if some of that movement's energy stems - paradoxically - from laziness; chasing after labyrinthine conspiracy theories is much easier than confronting a mundane overt evil that has permeated every level of society.

Imagine if they used all that "righteous indignation" for good...

I cannot help but wonder if some of that movement's energy stems - paradoxically - from laziness; chasing after labyrinthine conspiracy theories is much easier than confronting a mundane overt evil that has permeated every level of society.

The Confederate Flag is our swastika.

The Confederate Flag is our swastika.

The Confederate Flag is our swastika.

The Confederate Flag is our swastika.

The Confederate Flag is our swastika.

The Confederate Flag is our swastika.

There's a lot of false equivalency being tossed around on the right to try to downplay and equate the insurrectionists with BLM, Antifa, and people concerned about Russian interference.  I'm assuming this level of diversion and denial lasts until the first domestic terror act to occur during the new administration, likely committed explicitly in Trump's name.