Here's my take on the Biden commutations up on MSNBC. It's not only the morally correct thing to do, it's also very good politics and well supported legally.

I would love to get names of people - either academics or rabbis - who might be experts on the role of the death penalty in the jewish faith tradition.

I am looking for an expert on the death penalty in the Muslim faith tradition - academic slant but doesn't need to be a professor. Direct message me please!

@jayjayyy369 @Kyochi_Myogo @fettpet @Silky1776 @AnthonyMKreis They really seem to think you can kick minor citizens out unless their is a guardian arrangement. Democracy 2024 is this persons nutty ideas about the law being totally valid.

Lots of brilliant folks were here once, including folks that I disagree w/ intensely. But this place is overrun by incels; the algo promotes the dumbest conceivable discourse. I'll still post some work stuff here and interact w/ folks occasionally, but gonna switch most of my schtick here.

@AttyHuling It’s not a due process problem, or at least It’s not what I’m talking about. It’s a full faith and credit issue.

@lildickybutts It’s cute that you think “matters to him” is the enforcement of question.

Breaking character here, but It's not insightful/wise to phrase The Coalition Discourse as "move left" v. "move right," since you can't plot popularity & political positioning that way. Moving left on some issues is electorally shrewd & moving left on others is electorally suicidal. IMHO the inability to pull these issues off the same continuum underlies many basic problems in the way people are approaching Introspection Theatre.

Introspection theatre is the dumbest theatre

@ltrtab4447 No

kids, don't do drugs

and i think there's lots of ways in which the tack left strategies - despite my political preference for the outcomes! - is electorally unsuccessful. i'm think we could safely out "defund the police" as a presidential campaign slogan even if no president had tried it before. notwithstanding my feelings about the policies for which that language stands.

@Grits4Breakfast @JasonHGTruitt agreed in part, but i am inherently more suspicious if your "untried strategies" track your political preferences.

@Grits4Breakfast @JasonHGTruitt Like, I see your point - I certainly agree that it is *possible* that there's some world in which we don't rely enough on our moral intuitions about what is right to guide our strategic approach. I just think we are clearly *very very far* from that world.

@JasonHGTruitt @Grits4Breakfast see my reply to Scott, i 100% agree that they're indistinguishable. that was precisely why i chose inclusive language.

@Grits4Breakfast @JasonHGTruitt and TBH if there is one critique that resonates with me as undeniably true, it's the Bernie-esque point that Ds *have to* have a message that better resonates with the working class.