On: America is moving toward becoming a better version of itself

[humanrebar]

Williamson was making a more pointed and subtle point. You probably missed it.

Part of the key is that Williamson is generally against the death penalty. He is regularly tongue in cheek and hyperbolic.

He is certainly against ex post facto punishment.

[stevenwoo → humanrebar]

No I get it and it's not subtle and talk like that leads to actual violence by people who don't care about subtlety. It's no different than joking about saying second amendment people ought to protest this political official we disagree with. Gleaned from Rand Corp statistics - https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/30/us/anti-abortion-violence/ind...