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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 12 points 3 months ago

shouting angrily at colleagues questioning the alleged behavior that anything was legitimate to do to "terrorists" in custody.

We need to remember this, when calling for retributive "justice." That's not justice. That's revenge, and it's not just, for us, the Israelis, Palestinians, and closer to home, Dems, Reps, Libertarians, Tankies, Fascists.

Justice is balancing the scales: removing conditions of despair, as best we can, rather than finding new and more cruel ways to create more despair.

Simple. Not easy.