Full title: John C Woods, hangman of Nuremberg trials, who lied about his experience to get the job (he actually learned about hanging from old cowboy films). His lack of expertise led to excessive suffering of condemned Nazis.

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[–] 81 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Condemned men should be treated with respect. This isn't about the moral quality of the condemned, but the quality of the society that commits to execution.

The Nuremberg trials were a triumph of the rules-based international system. This fool undermined all of that.

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  • [+] -15 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Nazi aren't men, facists aren't people, they are the cancer in society level, you don't mind if cancer suffer when you do chemo...

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  • [–] 33 points 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    This kind of rhetoric is extremely harmful, as it encourages people to not critically examine the moral impacts of their own actions. Nazis were people. If you believe that only evil people do evil things, and that you're a good person, you are priming yourself to excuse any atrocity you might enact or support.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's because of people with this softcore thought on nazis than those motherfuckers are feeling confortable enough to parade on streets and show their faces on public without consequences.

    Those vermin need to know we don't fear them, instead they should fear us, they should know they would die if they don't crawl back to tbe sewers where they belong, like cockroaches

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    show their faces on public without consequences.

    Aren't they still hiding their faces?

    There is a huge difference between not fearing them and saying they aren't humans.

    There is also a huge difference between killing them (which wasn't even objected here) and saying they aren't humans.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago*

    Acknowledging that evil people are in fact people isn't softcore, it's a baseline necessity to critically examine one's own actions and beliefs for moral flaws. If you believe yourself to be a good person, and you believe that only evil people do evil things, then you give yourself a pass on everything you do. That car crash can't have been your fault, because you're good a good driver, and only bad drivers cause crashes. That homicide wasn't manslaughter, it was self defense. Only bad people commit manslaughter. Everyone knows rape is evil, and you're a good person, so there's no way that sex you had was rape. If someone says otherwise, they must be lying or mistaken.

    Those vermin need to know we don't fear them,

    You clearly do though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    This rhetoric serves fascists.

    Yes, if we all had to define a fascist as a non-human, we would conclude that a whole lot of people couldn't possibly be fascist that very much are.

    Fascists are human. Fascist are often our relatives, neighbors, and peers. That's a big part of understanding the urgency and severity of the situation.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

    Is this a problem? I dont use reddit and like seeing (proven) interesting posts here?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (9 children)

    It’s not a problem if you’re not worried about one person monopolizing a community by using a script to repost the top posts in a community of seventeen million but if you don’t have a problem with that why not just use Reddit instead?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    Lots of reasons people don't use reddit but still want content

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  • [+] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    In some ways it is easier if it comes from one account. Easier to block if you don't like, and less chance of duplicate posts.

    I guess I'm not seeing the issue from having it come from one bot.

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  • [+] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    if it was just one bot it wouldn't be as much of an issue, the problem is it's more than one. I've already blocked two eerily similar repost accounts on other comms and I don't want to keep playing whack-a-mole

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  • [–] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Botching executions seems to be a theme with the USA.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago

    If you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago

    A hero they deserved.

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  • [+] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
    [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (6 children)

    Hanging?

    Yeah, careful flaying from forehead down just slow enough to ensure no passing out and then a nice slow roast at the stake is a more appropriate form of punishment for Nazis, Fascists, Racists/Racial Supremacists, Homophobes, Transphobes, etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    If you cut the skin off the meat will dry out. You gotta roast 'em at a temperature that renders the fat under the skin making the skin crispy.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Meh, rather starve than eat long pig. Not to mention they should be scared shitless before death, which we all know makes the meat all stringy and tough. No thanks, I'll settle for witnessing the suffering of the monsters.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Here is the thing, you really need to know how to do THAT.. otherwise they'll die of shock or something else.

    The main issue i have with getting conned by a wrong hangman is that its just so unprofessional

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    His lack of expertise led to excessive suffering of condemned Nazis.

    A hero.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Oh no. Anyway.

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    Man sounds like a hero

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    [–] -5 points 2 weeks ago

    Talking about suffering, the same cowboy movies that falsely made cinema goers believe all American men had guns.

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