Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Nah, it won’t make me right wing. There’s plenty of friction within each political identity, I guess this is just part of it.

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Anonymous OP 2w

also we’re all college students, many of whom aren’t political science majors, ofc there’s gonna be some awful uninformed takes on all sides

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Anonymous OP 2w

I had this classmate for a while in my political science classes who would take up a position I agreed with, and then argue for it very poorly. I fucking hated her WAY more than I hated the people who simply took other positions. Like bruh do not be a walking right-wing strawman of what we believe, PLEASE

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Anonymous #2 2w

Had a discussion about the Iran situation in one of my poli sci classes. God that shit was a wet dream. This place sucks. I gotta start identifying whose too stupid to understand my point 😂

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

idk some of the strawmans the right-wing creates for leftists are takes I’d acc defend I see no issue with illegal immigration at all for example, that’s such a moral panic and for what? A lack of papers??? 😭😭😭

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Anonymous #2 2w

One time this person was in a philosophy class with me about the ethics of criminal punishment and argued that we could rehabilitate serial killers and I was like “okay that’s enough, you are officially Too Woke”

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Like, she was doing so well until someone was like “So what do you do with, like, a John Wayne Gacy type? Kinda guy who kills 37 people?”and she was like “I think even someone like that could possibly be rehabilitated” and I wanted to SCREAM. Like damn it is not hard to be like “that kind of person should be restrained from society forever, but the point of prison should not simply be to make them suffer” if you REALLY wanna do this “we can’t kill ANYBODY, EVER” shit

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

yeah, that’s naivety at its finest, rehabilitation doesn’t fix psychopathy

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

I think so many of us would like to live in our ideal world that we forget about being realistic and this is just one of those cases 😂

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Anonymous #2 2w

Yeah like I’m anti-death penalty politically speaking, but not philosophically speaking. I’m anti-death penalty because sometimes the courts fuck up. Even in my most ideal world, the courts would still fuck up. They’re run by people. People fuck up. With a life sentence you have the chance to let them out, and compensate them for their time spent, with a death sentence you don’t. Philosophically? Yeah some people just gotta go. But life in a facility/prison would make them “go” just as well.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

I’m even against the death penalty philosophically and I think there has to be a way to isolate dangerous people from the rest of society in a way that isn’t merely punitive and dehumanizing for the sake of dehumanization

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