#punishment — Public Fediverse posts

Nine youths criticized for foreign videos https://www.byteseu.com/2354548/ #Chongjin #Conflicts #crackdowns #ForeignContent #MinistryOfSocialSecurity #NorthHamgyongProvince #NorthKorea #Punishment #SouthKoreanCulture #surveillance #youth

Nine youths criticized for foreign videos

FILE PHOTO: A scene from Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province. (Daily NK) North Korean authorities in Chongjin, North Hamgyong…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #chongjin #crackdowns #foreigncontent #ministryofsocialsecurity #northhamgyongprovince #punishment #southkoreanculture #surveillance #youth
https://www.europesays.com/korea/150163/

1077 • Nothing beats a good beating

#femdom #violentfemdom #ballbusting #cbt #cruelfemdom #shoelicking #shoecleaningslave #cruelmistress #punishment #femaledominance #femaledomination

1077 • Nothing beats a good beating

#femdom #violentfemdom #ballbusting #cbt #cruelfemdom #shoelicking #shoecleaningslave #cruelmistress #punishment #femaledominance #femaledomination

Ass Brunette Dad Daughter Punishment Porn GIF by myaltme

https://fedinsfw.app/c/family_affairs@fedinsfw.app/p/718196/ass-brunette-dad-daughter-punishment-porn-gif-by-myaltme

Ass Brunette Dad Daughter Punishment Porn GIF by myaltme

Stop the #UK #fines racket

Volunteer in #Nottingham #fined for leaving 1 kale leaf in shopping #trolley

She was fined by #privatised enforcement agent contracted by #council, who was incentivised to issue as many fines as possible

- This shouldn’t happen any more

New #Defra guidance clearly bans ‘pay per #fine’ incentivised #punishment

But #councils are so far ignoring this guidance, which has not been publicised

https://freedomineverydaylife.org/fundraiser-help-us-stop-the-fines-racket-2/

#profits #greed #hostile #capitalism

M.73.5.581h: (Not able to provide a translation) (19th century), from LACMA M.73.5.581.

Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/383106b7-d47f-43da-b4ff-1f9fcd86a917

#islam #serpentine #hell #punishment #afterlife #sufism #drawing #manuscript #art #publicdomain

https://theconversation.com/why-criminal-justice-shouldnt-just-be-about-what-punishment-people-deserve-290393; https://theconversation.com/people-in-the-uk-favour-harsher-punishment-than-norwegians-belief-in-free-will-may-help-explain-why-286169; https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/16/6/868 (open access). "The more strongly someone believes in #free #will, the harsher the #punishment they favour for #criminals." This is quite logical: if you believe that a #criminal act results from a free #choice, then you will believe the #person making that choice should be punished for making it. Our criminal #justice #system is founded on #belief in free will - but what if that belief is false?

Des fois, certains semblent ne pas apprécier les sanctions (automatique celle-ci) :D #irc #punishment

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/19/israel-admits-it-soldiers-fired-at-car-in-which-hind-rajab-was-killed. I predict now that, if these #soldiers are ever #punished, the #punishment they receive from #Israel will bear no relation at all to the magnitude of their terrible #crimes.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@hoodline/hoodline-555dciuoz/-/a-soqxVH9qTZOhdSHLoLBYvw%3Aa%3A2850025240-%2F0

Turns out there was never a real #egg shortage in the #US during the last egg crisis. Production was substantially unaffected, yet #prices skyrocketed. Calling it theft is an understatement. This is economic treason! #Society was the victim. #Crimes like this one demands the harshest #punishment, as #dissuasion shall be a #priority, in the interests of all vs the dishonest fews.

CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess
#MENAdoc:

"Codifying repression: an assessment of Iran's new penal code" by Human Rights Watch

[New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012]

http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/107268

#iran #humanrights #discrimination #punishment

Due to the US's increasing criminalisation of dissent, I've decided to shift this blog to being entirely about Buddhism and comparative religions and cultures, in which I have a BA and about 40 years of experience. This blog's archives have been updated accordingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lKHypz4DtA

#us #usa #america #dissent #freedom #freespeech #censorship #crime #punishment #constitution #law

AND SO IT GOES ...

#news #opinion #satire #irony #errtling #bookcafe #world-according-to-hoyle #art-of-review #art #writing #philosophy #law #gov #culture #humanity #politics #religion #economics #paranormal-things #war #peace #crime #punishment

amyctserrat.substack.com/p/the-world-...

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HOYLE

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #afterlife #Christianity #cruelty #divinejudgment #divinejustice #divinepunishment #eternalpunishment #eternity #heaven #hell #injustice #punishment

Suspect in shooting at local fast food restaurant in custody https://www.diningandcooking.com/2750102/suspect-in-shooting-at-local-fast-food-restaurant-in-custody/ #arrest #background #Black #bondage #bracelet #Chain #closed #concept #conceptual #Control #crime #criminal #cuffs #custody #enforcement #food #guilt #guilty #hand #handcuff #handcuffs #iron #Jail #Justice #law #LEGAL #lock #metal #metallic #nobody #object #police #prison #prisoner #punishment #secure #security #shackles #Shadow #Sign #silver #single #Steel #stk25pf #suspect #symbol #theft #thief

A quotation from John Adams

   We are to look upon it as more beneficial, that many guilty persons should escape unpunished, than one innocent person should suffer. The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in the world, that all of them cannot be punished; and many times they happen in such a manner, that it is not of much consequence to the public, whether they are punished or not.
   But when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, it is immaterial to me, whether I behave well or ill; for virtue itself, is no security. And if such a sentiment as this, should take place in the mind of the subject, there would be an end to all security what so ever.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Speech (1770-12-03/04), Argument for the Defense, Boston Massacre Trial

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/15073/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #bostonmassacre #nothingtolose #civilrights #crime #criminal #exoneration #guilt #guilty #innocence #innocents #justice #lawandorder #moralhazard #protection #punishment #security #socialcontract #justicesystem

A quotation from Euripides

JASON: The curse of children’s blood be on you!
   Avenging Justice, blast your being!
MEDEA: What god will hear your imprecation,
   Oath-breaker, guest-deceiver, liar?
 
[ἸΆΣΩΝ: ἀλλά σ᾽ Ἐρινὺς ὀλέσειε τέκνων
   φονία τε Δίκη.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: τίς δὲ κλύει σοῦ θεὸς ἢ δαίμων,
   τοῦ ψευδόρκου καὶ ξειναπάτου;]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1389ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/85172/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #argument #bickering #curse #deprecation #dishonesty #dishonor #divineanger #divineretribution #divinewrath #dvinepunishment #gods #hospitality #punishment #reputation #unworthiness #vengeance

KARMA-FREE TRUMP 💎

Donald Trump does not need to be hated in order to be seen clearly.

There is no need to imagine that #karma will #punish him.

No need to turn him into the #supernatural embodiment of #evil
No need to diagnose his soul.

His vanity, grievance, cruelty, #fear ,appetite, and enormous need for #attention are serious enough.

#Hatred does not improve our #perception.

It distorts it.

It makes the hated person larger, darker, and more #powerful in the #mind than they already are.

It also gives them permanent residence in the #nervous #system.

Trump should be opposed when he lies, harms, corrupts, intimidates, degrades institutions, or participates in or encourages cruelty.

That opposition can be #firm.

It should be relentless.

It can name exactly what is happening.

But hatred is not required.

Nor is #spiritual #fantasy.

No one knows what happens to Donald Trump after #death.

No one knows whether the #universe keeps a #punishment #ledger.

What is known, though, is that actions have consequences here.

People are harmed.

Truth is weakened.

Fear spreads.

#Cowardice becomes #contagious.

But cruelty does not have to set the terms.

#Kindness as strength can be encouraged in the face of cruelty.

#Courage in the face of intimidation.

#Truth in the face of deception.

#Decency in the face of degradation.

Restraint in the face of vengeance.

#Clarity in the face of confusion.

The task is not to hate the man.

The task is to see clearly, speak plainly, protect those being harmed, and refuse to let cruelty decide who we become.

#DonaldTrump #Trump #USPolitics #PoliticalClarity #Cruelty #Kindness #Courage #Truth #Decency #Restraint #Clarity #Nonviolence #NoHatred #MoralClarity #Humanity

A quotation from Homer

The recklessness of their ways destroyed them all.
 
[Αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο.]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 1, l. 7ff (1.7) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fagles (1996)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/46491/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #consequence #death #destruction #divinejudgment #folly #incaution #punishment #recklessness

In the US, prisoners are often charged room and board in prison, whilst also being pressed to work for little or no money, meaning they come out in debt, making them either be indentured to a job (which is hard to find with a criminal record) or return to a life of crime.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/trump-tariffs-forced-labor-us-prisons

#usa #us #america #prison #jail #labor #labour #forcedlabor #forcedlabour #coercion #slavery #money #debt #crime #punishment #rehab #rehabilitation

#punishment : the act of punishing

- French: punition

- German: die Strafe

- Italian: punizione

- Portuguese: punição

- Spanish: castigo

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/18/israel-plan-new-illegal-settlements-gaza-west-bank-occupied-palestine. The #Israeli #Government think they can carry on doing this in violation of the 4th #Geneva #Convention & #UNSC Resolution 242 because no-one is going to stop them, & because there'll be no #punishment for any of them - & they are right! International #law? WHAT #international law?

A quotation from Ingersoll

The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved — cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell. I want no part in any heaven in which the saved, the ransomed and redeemed will drown with shouts of joy the cries and sobs of hell — in which happiness will forget misery, where the tears of the lost only increase laughter and double bliss.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #christianity #afterlife #divinejustice #divinepunishment #divinewrath #eternity #God #heaven #hell #punishment #worship

Political cartoon by Ward Sutton, WE'VE COME SO FAR!
1926 NYC flag:
"A man was lynched yesterday"
2026 NYC flag:
"A man was murdered by ICE yesterday"
.
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK #DEI #diversity #equity #inclusion #WhiteSupremacy #OurPutin #fascism #immigration #policy #ChristianNationalism #AmericaFirst #deportation #border #amnesty #ICE #DHS #federal #immunity #prosecute #trial #judge #jury #accountability #punishment #jail

"Some governments are lowering the age of criminal responsibility. That may backfire"

https://www.economist.com/international/2026/07/09/child-suspects-are-being-prosecuted-at-younger-ages?giftId=MzUwYzIwOTEtMWI1Ni00MzJiLTk1MGYtN2VlZWQ1NmMzZDYw&utm_campaign=gifted_article

"The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child recommends a MACR of at least 14" (minimum age of criminal responsibility)

"In 1998 Tony Blair’s Labour government abolished a common-law presumption—which prosecutors had to rebut—that children aged 10-13 are doli incapax, or incapable of wrongdoing."

#crime #punishment #politics #law #justice

Politicians are listening to voters angry about dramatic and well-publicised crimes—and you can understand why. Indonesians were horrified when a 12-year-old stabbed her mother 26 times, killing her. In Colombia a 15-year-old boy last year shot and killed a senator campaigning to be president. In Sweden and elsewhere, gangs use children to attack properties or people.
#legal #crime #punishment #sociology #criminology #police #justice #Fairness
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/07/09/who-is-capable-of-evil

Hell is often depicted as a place of punishment in various religions. It is frequently described as fiery and eternal. Cultural interpretations vary across history and literature

#afterlife #punishment #religion #mythology #literature

A quotation from Robert Green Ingersoll

   Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of Hell?
   Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #afterlife #Christianity #cruelty #damnation #divinejudgment #divinejustice #divinepunishment #divinewrath #eternity #God #heaven #hell #punishment #universalism

Whoever that E.S. character was just sent her into one hell of a trap. Sure, she got to see that Santa was indeed real... perhaps a little too real right now! 

https://subscribestar.adult/pyperhaylie
https://naughtynewsroom.carrd.co/
#bondage #Oc #santa #elf #spanking #paddle #spank #punishment #punish #reddened #dollification #noir #redhead

Barnum's shadow

https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-346a-4a6e-ac02-393031666322

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jun/11/children-hit-by-parents-more-likely-to-bully-others-research-finds; https://www.ucl.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/research-projects/2023/jan/physical-punishment-and-child-outcomes-uk-mixed-methods-study. "Children #smacked by their #parents struggle to get good #exam #results & are more likely to #bully others, causing a negative impact on #society, according to new #research calling for #smacking to be #banned... The #study... also found that #teenagers experiencing #physical #punishment in early #childhood were markedly more likely to bully #siblings & others or engage in #cyberbullying." See also: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/25/smacking-child-england-northern-ireland-adults-violence.

الممثل الإسباني خافيير بارديم يقول إنه خسر أدوارا وعقودا بسبب دعمه لـ #غزة وواجه #عقابا #مهنيا مؤكدا أنه لا يستطيع العمل مع من يبرر #الإبادة وأن قول #فلسطين #حرة أهم من أي #فرصة

Spanish actor Javier Bardem says he lost roles and contracts due to his support for #Gaza and faced #professional #punishment stressing he cannot work with those who justify #genocide and that saying #Free #Palestine matters more than any #opportunity

https://theconversation.com/in-england-and-its-colonies-accused-witches-werent-burnt-but-wives-who-defied-their-husbands-were-278612. This was also the #punishment for #women who were convicted of #counterfeiting, which was considered High Treason, as it was seen as an attack on the #authority of the Monarch. The last #woman so executed in #England was Catherine Murphy, in 1789, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Murphy_(counterfeiter), @HarriettMB.

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

In this world we never will be perfectly civilized as long as a gallows casts its shadow upon the earth. As long as there is a penitentiary, within the walls of which a human being is immured, we are not a perfectly civilized people. We shall never be perfectly civilized until we do away with crime.
   And yet, according to this Christian religion, God is to have an eternal penitentiary; he is to be an everlasting jailer, an everlasting turnkey, a warden of an infinite dungeon, and he is going to keep prisoners there forever, not for the purpose of reforming them — because they are never going to get any better, only worse — but for the purpose of purposeless punishment. And for what? For something they failed to believe in this world. Born in ignorance, supported by poverty, caught in the snares of temptation, deformed by toil, stupefied by want — and yet held responsible through the countless ages of eternity! No man can think of a greater horror; no man can dream of a greater absurdity.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1884-01-20), “Orthodoxy,” Tabor Opera House, Denver, Colorado

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #afterlife #Christianity #civilization #crime #crimeandpunishment #criminal #damnation #divinejustice #divinepunishment #divinewrath #eternalpunishment #hell #jail #punishment

A quotation from Euripides

NURSE:                             But not long
   Can the extremes of grandeur ever last;
   And heavier are the curses which it brings
   When Fortune visits us in all her wrath.
 
[ΤΡΟΦΌΣ:           Τὰ δ᾽ ὑπερβάλλοντ᾽
   οὐδένα καιρὸν δύναται θνητοῖς,
   μείζους δ᾽ ἄτας, ὅταν ὀργισθῇ
   δαίμων οἴκοις, ἀπέδωκεν.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 127ff (431 BC) [tr. Wodhull (1782)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/80709/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #divineanger #divinejustice #divinepunishment #divinewill #divinewrath #fall #greatness #power #proportionality #punishment #wealth

Government bureaucracies need occasional overhaul and rejuvenation.

Trump’s motivation is more about #punishment and #retribution.

His Cabinet choices point to that.

At the Justice Department, he is prepared to fire the team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith on two indictments of the president-elect.

More broadly, he looks to dismantle what he regards as an unresponsive and oppositional administrative state.

Experts say what Trump, Musk and Ramaswamy are talking about
— both in terms of money saved and workforce reductions
— is unrealistic and that they will soon bump into political and economic realities that will leave them far short of what they claim.

That doesn’t mean, however, that at the outset the president-elect should not be taken seriously about how #disruptive he will try to be in his efforts.

Musk has claimed he can cut the budget by roughly $2 trillion,
but analysts say that would require drastic (and unpopular) cuts in entitlements programs, defense or other vital services.

#Elaine #Kamarck of the Brookings Institution, who oversaw Gore’s reinventing government initiative, offered counsel to the incoming administration in a piece on the Brookings website entitled,
“Cut the government with a scalpel, not an axe.”

That was the approach taken during the Clinton administration, which resulted in the elimination of 640,000 pages of internal agency rules
and a reduction in the federal workforce of 426,000 employees.

Kamarck, however, questioned whether the federal bureaucracy is truly bloated,
as Ramaswamy and the Trump team claim.

There are, she noted about 19,000 Border Patrol agents.

How many of those would Trump cut while still making good on his promise to secure the border and deport millions?

There are about 1,800 air traffic controllers, she said. Would Trump’s team cut that workforce significantly, causing potential flight cancellations and disruption?

“It will take about a week and Congress will say, ‘Hey, you can’t do this,’” she said.

And how deeply would he try to cut the workforce at the Social Security Administration,
at the risk of checks not being sent out promptly or other breakdowns in a program that he has otherwise vowed not to touch?

Kamarck offered other examples of where the Trump team could produce only symbolic victories.

Trump has targeted the Department of Education for elimination.

Kamarck said the department could be eliminated but two key programs likely would remain
— the student loan program and Title 1,
which adds to state and local governments for low-achieving students in areas of higher poverty.

The student loan program could be shifted to the Treasury Department
and Title 1 to the Department of Health and Human Services, she said,
which means a portion of its budget would be shifted rather than cut.

Its workforce is the smallest of any Cabinet agency.

Kamarck’s point is that after programs are shifted, the money saved might not be significant and the number of workers eliminated would be tiny.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/24/doge-trump-musk-ramaswamy-budget/

Editorial: Parole consideration for those sentenced to life behind bars 35 years ago? It’s the right thing to do
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-27/editorial-california-reform-life-without-parole

#California #crime #punishment #parole #prison #SB94

#Homophobia #fine for #AussieRules #coach ‘#lineinthesand,’ says #predecessor who #cameout as #trans.

#AlastairClarkson was #fined US $13,000 for using an #antigay #slur but #DaniLaidley feels the #punishment is '#significant.'

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Australia #Entertainment #Sports #Football #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.outsports.com/2024/3/11/24088249/alastair-clarkson-afl-homophobia-lgbtq-dani-laidley/

Will I be able to avoid Mastodon for a whole week?

Bets are open! 🎲

The last weeks I figured out that I often didn't check off the tasks I planed for a day and after checking my tracker*, I figured out that I am using #Mastodon longer and longer.

In general I don't get #addicted to social media and even help others to get rid of it or reduce it. I fight #entertainingmedia and even wrote articles about it in a blog series called #cleandopamine (https://utopify.org/clean-dopamine-journey-to-the-good-happiness-bringers.html)

But now it looks like, I lost control!

And as a #punishment I will block Mastodon on all of my devices and go #coldturkey for a week.

I will comment on this #poll as soon as I am back. So I hope it will be next Saturday 🙂

Let's do this 💪

* = I've coded my own #tracker years ago, which is simple to activate. After I sit down in front of my PC, I hit a key combination, choose an activity and a timer starts, which is shown in the status bar and after I stop the time, it gets added into a database (The starting process is done in 2 seconds, try this on a smartphone...).

I do this for years to see, which activity needed the most time, how long I worked on important projects and where I wasted time.

Currently the numbers for #socialmedia are too high!

#addiction #distraction #timewaste #wastingtime #doomscrolling #productivity #trapsoftheinternet

When #MariameKaba Speaks, Listen

#Ric Wilson #Chromeo #ATrak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05LjHX_etlQ

> I tell people that our #criminal #punishment system is #racist, that it's #classist, that its #sexist, that it's #transphobic, and that it's more. I tell people that we spend a lot of #money on locking people up in our country. Too much money on locking people up in our country. $70B to be exact, every single year, to lock people up...even with all of that...we're still a country that lives with #fear...