Don’t know if I’d say simpler, some of the games for the NES are downright punishing in their difficulty.

Take away their veto, it belongs to the Soviet Union, which they are not. Give it to Ukraine while you’re at it, they have roughly as much claim to it.

Is my pareidolia flaring up or does that glacier look like Trump’s face? (which also appears to be melting)

Because bad guys show up for every election, and the good guys, which are the majority, don’t.

20 gunmen killed*

• gunmen may or may not have had guns when shot, but don’t worry IDF soldiers immediately placed guns on each body before alerting the press

we don’t even need evidence to know

No matter what follows this…yes, we do. You should need evidence to believe anything; understanding of course that the more extraordinary the claim, the more extraordinary the evidence needed.

giving them merely some jailtime is not working either, but whatever

Then imprison them for life. Guess what, life imprisonment is cheaper than the death penalty, and can be overturned if there’s an error.

it definitely will make other people think twice before they do the same thing

There is absolutely no evidence to support that assertion.

There is no proof that the death penalty deters criminals. According to the National Academy of Sciences, “Research on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is uninformative about whether capital punishment increases, decreases, or has no effect on homicide rates.”

US Department of Justice

it’s not a great approach in most cases

Any cases.

Do you think a death penalty for netanyahu unfair, in fact not giving a death penalty is unfair to all the children and women and everyone else he has killed

Fair? What does fair mean? Does an execution un-kill the victims? What a ridiculous notion that any sort of punishment for a perpetrator could be “fair” for the victims.

The death penalty is an abject failure. It has no benefits and numerous issues. Practicing barbarism can never be justice.

I have no opinion on the Mexican president, but I live in the States and there’s about 70m people I could ask if Trump is an authoritarian or fascist and they’d say no. So simply living somewhere may not be the best barometer.

come up with a solution

But not just a bandaid solution… probably something more final.

Multi-party, new party…maybe…but single party, I’m not sure I’ve heard anyone advocate for that, certainly not a lot of people.

Can’t wait for someone to dismiss a 12 year study over their feelings that this is wrong. Undoubtedly accompanied by “Don’t they have bootstraps in Kenya, pick yourself up!”

So weird that they’re not successful at something that they don’t care about.

What are you talking about? It’s the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea… democracy is right there in the name! /s

Except that the money flowing to the top 1% are the result of politics. The tax cuts which funnel money out of the public coffers and into billionaires’ pockets also require cuts to services, like education. Polarization is what’s required to motivate voters to continue to vote against their own interests. They’re very much connected.