I bet this chud tells people he is an “alpha male”. What a loser.
Fun fact: Brutalization Effect is caused by public executions, which lead to more murders since people become desensitized to death. So great way to get more blood in the streets, if that’s what you want.
Learned about that in a criminology class.
Narrator: It was, in fact, what they wanted.
reminds me a bit of The Hangman by Maurice Ogden
Into our town the hangman came, smelling of gold and blood and flame. He paced our bricks with a different air,and built his frame on the courthouse square. The scaffold stood by the courthouse side,only as wide as the door was wide with a frame as tall, or a little more,than the capping sill of the courthouse door. And we wondered whenever we had the time,Who the criminal? What the crime? The hangman judged with the yellow twist of knotted hemp in his busy fist. And innocent though we were with dread, we passed those eyes of buckshot lead.
Till one cried, “Hangman, who is he,for whom you raised the gallows-tree?” Then a twinkle grew in his buckshot eye and he gave a riddle instead of reply. “He who serves me best,” said he “Shall earn the rope on the gallows-tree.” And he stepped down and laid his hand on a man who came from another land. And we breathed again, for anothers grief at the hangmans hand, was our relief. And the gallows frame on the courthouse lawn by tomorrow’s sun would be struck and gone. So we gave him way and no one spoke out of respect for his hangmans cloak.
The next day’s sun looked mildly down on roof and street in our quiet town; and stark and black in the morning air the gallows-tree on the courthouse square. And the hangman stood at his usual stand with the yellow hemp in his busy hand. With his buckshot eye and his jaw like a pike, and his air so knowing and business-like. And we cried, “Hangman, have you not done, yesterday with the alien one?” Then we fell silent and stood amazed.“Oh, not for him was the gallows raised.” He laughed a laugh as he looked at us,“Do you think I’ve gone to all this fuss, To hang one man? That’s the thing I do. To stretch the rope when the rope is new.”
Above our silence a voice cried “Shame!” and into our midst the hangman came; to that mans place, “Do you hold,” said he, “With him that was meat for the gallows-tree?” He laid his hand on that one’s arm and we shrank back in quick alarm. We gave him way, and no one spoke, out of fear of the hangmans cloak. That night we saw with dread surprise the hangmans scaffold had grown in size. Fed by the blood beneath the chute, the gallows-tree had taken root. Now as wide, or a little more than the steps that led to the courthouse door. As tall as the writing, or nearly as tall, half way up on the courthouse wall.
The third he took, we had all heard tell, was a usurer…, an infidel. And “What” said the hangman, “Have you to do with the gallows-bound…, and he a Jew?” And we cried out, “Is this one he who has served you well and faithfully?” The hangman smiled, “It’s a clever scheme to try the strength of the gallows beam.” The fourth man’s dark accusing song had scratched our comfort hard and long. “And what concern,” he gave us back, “Have you … for the doomed and black?” The fifth, the sixth, and we cried again, “Hangman, hangman, is this the man?” “It’s a trick”, said he, “that we hangman know for easing the trap when the trap springs slow.”
And so we ceased and asked now more as the hangman tallied his bloody score. And sun by sun, and night by night the gallows grew to monstrous height. The wings of the scaffold opened wide until they covered the square from side to side. And the monster cross beam looking down, cast its shadow across the town. Then through the town the hangman came and called through the empy streets…my name. I looked at the gallows soaring tall and thought … there’s no one left at all for hanging … and so he called to me to help take down the gallows-tree.
And I went out with right good hope to the hangmans tree and the hangmans rope. He smiled at me as I came down to the courthouse square…through the silent town. Supple and stretched in his busy hand, was the yellow twist of hempen strand. He whistled his tune as he tried the trap and it sprang down with a ready snap. Then with a smile of awful command, He laid his hand upon my hand. “You tricked me Hangman.” I shouted then, “That your scaffold was built for other men, and I’m no henchman of yours.” I cried. “You lied to me Hangman, foully lied.”
Then a twinkle grew in his buckshot eye, “Lied to you…tricked you?” He said “Not I… for I answered straight and told you true. The scaffold was raised for none but you.” “For who has served more faithfully? With your coward’s hope.” said He, “And where are the others that might have stood side by your side, in the common good?” “Dead!” I answered, and amiably “Murdered,” the Hangman corrected me. “First the alien … then the Jew. I did no more than you let me do.” Beneath the beam that blocked the sky none before stood so alone as I. The Hangman then strapped me…with no voice there to cry “Stay!” … for me in the empty square.
Unfun fact! In Victorian England public executions were a common place to get pickpocketed. Brutal punishment for minor crimes didn’t reduce crime, it took social services to do that.
There’s no way this dude hasn’t done some absolutely heinous things. It’s always these folks talking about executing all criminals that turn out to be the scummiest of scum.
You mean like the masculine leadership in the white house who has a wall of shame for journalists who hurt his feelings and loves raping children? Or the masculine leadership over at the Pentagon who drinks his ass into a bloodthirsty stupor and then tries to blame his inferior after said bloodthirst? Or the masculine leadership over at ICE who primarily target women and children? So much manly aura.
You know it’s really all of those
He looks like the sort of person who vacations to a conflict zone and pays for an experience package that includes killing civilians.
You rarely see a “Sexual assault allegations” section on a Wikipedia page about a guy who isn’t a douche. Also “Stanford”, “Theil,” and “Palantir” are never helpful keywords.
Oh wow, I didn’t read that far. Yikes.
Clougherty later underwent negotiations with Stanford and Lonsdale. She reached a settlement with Stanford for an undisclosed amount, and Stanford banned Lonsdale from campus for ten years after reopening their previous investigation. Lonsdale also reportedly offered Clougherty a settlement, but she refused it after objecting to a blanket non-disclosure agreement. Lonsdale denied ever offering a settlement.
Nothings more masculine than killing your fellow man, eh?
If your only exposure to philosophy is from Conan the Barbarian then yeah. That, and glistening muscles and a biiiiig sword.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Book Conan > Movie Conan
Most definitely. Book Conan is much more detailed and worldly. Excellent stuff.
I haven’t read them but I’ll take your word for it. I should have made that explicit though you’re right.
Failing basic human empathy, and a modicum of ethics, do people like this genuinely never open history books? That would certainly appeal to their selfish interests.
If he’s ever in charge, he better pray the tide never turns, lest he would like to lead by example.
They’re too rich to worry about books. They have people for that. As long as you have enough money to buy a degree and pay the people who actually run your company, you don’t need to learn shit.
You unequivocally won’t be in charge later.
“You are part of the rebel alliance and a traitor,” same guy.
Is he reposting his reply to himself? That’s just pathetic, isn’t it?
That’s the current version of a power fantasy he’s had ever since he was the nerdy kid getting picked on by the mean kids on the playground.
