I’m with Andrew Yang. We’re destroying people’s lives. You feel powerful, then you move on. The people whose lives you destroyed are still destroyed. Sometimes the punishment fits the crime, but (key point) this is not how our system works, for good reason. #
We have laws and courts and juries and processes.#
And the “crimes” are getting increasingly meta.#
PS: So you know -- I know how it feels to seek revenge on people whose ideas are abhorrent. I was a fan of Mel Gibson's movies until it came out that he was an anti-semite. Now I'm appalled that he's working in Hollywood again, they've decided to accept him back. I don't like it, but abhorrent ideas are not a crime in the US. #
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