Present it to the masses to have them vote on it? I have, quite literally, never heard a worse idea in my life.
I have no doubt, too, that the majority would vote for it. That doesn't mean it's a good idea.
The masses used to be in favor of slavery and lots of other wonderful things.
You can't honestly be in favor of that. I know most of your posts carry a high schtick factor, but you definitely put a lot of thought into them, and they are usually pretty interesting and thought-provoking.
But come on, we're going to go all American Idol with our legal system and kicking people out of the country?
On second thought, that probably is the inevitable next step.
Prisons create multiple problems.
First, they are basically "for profit" models that are generally corrupt and suck up massive tax dollars and essentially formulate slave labor in many places
Second, it's basically advanced training/college for criminals
Third, you have hardened career criminals there for life who have nothing better to do than scheme and create problems and risk lawsuits.
Shipping out the worst of them by stripping their citizenship fixes just about all these problems. No other country is going to willing accept hardened criminals into their society. So in international waters, they'll likely get strangled then tossed overboard. But again, they aren't US citizens anymore.
Our prisons back home will be emptied so those people who are going into them can have a chance at some kind of rehabilitation. Also you'd have a place to put people like in this situation with the schools. Prisons and jails are overcrowded right now. There is no place to functionally put these kids. So they'll get into trouble and then eventually be released.
So yes, I am being perfectly serious.
It's a solution that answers at least 6-7 major conflicts in our society all at once.
So I recognize this is not the PSF, but there was a pathway from Jacob Blake ( knife wielding career criminal and drug abuser who sexually assaults women) to all kinds of looting and rioting in response to his getting shot. Under my proposal, Blake is already gone. So that wipes out all the madness associated with him and also everything with Rittenhouse. Gone. Also in Waukesha, Darrell Brooks would be gone too. No George Floyd because he would be gone as well. It would likely also help community policing as you don't have cops battling it out with the same small group of hardened criminals all the time.
I've said it the Shark Pool, in the Free For All, in the PSF, everywhere -
all of life is a resource management problem.
Career and lifelong criminals are not worth keep around as Americans in exchange for all the problems that would be solved if they were shipped out and removed. It works, it sells, it's practical, it's functional. And it would open up prison space to put in these kids who think it's hilarious to terrify everyone by saying they want to shoot up a school. Or they get shipped out too. All the same to me.
There are lots of homeless veterans on the streets now. People who served our country. People who fought for our country. People who just need some help. Instead of spending 75K a year to house a convicted rapist or deal with a high school kid who think it's all a big joke to frighten already battered parents, how about spending that money on helping the homeless and mentally ill?
It's not kicking "people" out. It's kicking out those who are hardened career criminals who have proven again and again they don't appreciate being a part of a civil society. They'll be given their day in court and when it's shown they are convicted and guilty, send them packing.
I don't understand this "schtick" nonsense. It's used to dismiss people with cheap ad hominem. I literally raise the level of discussion everywhere I go. What people don't like is how I post in a relentless visceral manner that operates like blunt force trauma that leaves them with no actual comeback for it. There's a level of efficient savagery at work that just makes a lot of people uncomfortable because they can smell their cognitive dissonance getting cooked. No one likes being called out and I routinely and casually call people out when they have it coming.
If anyone, no matter their age or situation, wants to threaten to shoot up a school, then my take is put them on a ship and send them packing forever. OK, I'll add in a new provision to be sporting about it. Halfway across the ocean, we can let them out for an hour. Give them a choice to go back in their cells. Or they can try to swim back to America. If they can swim back, then all their crimes will be forgiven.
This doesn't have to be hard. Live a life where you work hard, keep to yourself, try to be a decent neighbor, go home and eat some frozen burritos and watch some Netflix. Maybe play some Counter Duty or talk to some randoms on SnapFace. How hard is that? How hard is it to just be an everyday person and not threaten to shoot up a school?
People want to play stupid games, then make sure they win stupid prizes.
If you create a society ( like this one) where playing stupid games has no real consequences, then they'll just keep testing to see how far they can push the next stupid game that they'll inflict on innocent people.
Virtue signaling does not create a functional society. It's just the shouts of outrage from the entitled and tone deaf who don't have an actual strategic plan to fix real practical problems. There is zero virtue in enabling threats to our society because no one wants to accept that sometimes they'll have to face how the sausage actually gets made in life. I'll tell you what I told my godson when I was raising him - I don't care how you feel, I care if you win.
My plan gives America a bunch of wins. I want to permanently get rid of career criminals and people who want to shoot up schools so we can build more libraries and you apparently want to subvert the Founders' intent to allow the people at large to vote for what kind of society they want to live in and support. Which one of us sounds like the tyrant now?
