#punishment — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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://www.europesays.com/iran/265602/ Prosecutor will fight for maximum penalty in Lebanon murder | News #crime #crimes #CriminalJustice #CriminalLaw #CriminalProcedure #criminology #justice #Lebanon #LegalProcedure #misconduct #murder #PublicLaw #punishment #punishments #Sentence(law)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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

Retributive justice is a euphemism for vengeance by proxy: On Nozick's Retribution–Revenge Distinction

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/vengeance-with-better-manners-on

I started a piece on the self, and I hit a speed bump that I wanted to respond to separately from my main essay.

#substack #philosophy #nozick #justice #law #retribution #vengeance #punishment #language #freewill #blog

#hell, #punishment, #stories, #religions, #concepts https://mastodon.social/@chrissbiblenewsletter/116711314247392054

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 Terry Pratchett

And Sergeant Colon once again knew a secret about bravery. It was arguably a kind of enhanced cowardice — the knowledge that while death may await you if you advance it will be a picnic compared to the certain living hell that awaits should you retreat.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 21, Jingo (1988)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8091…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #alternatives #bravery #costbenefit #courage #cowardice #danger #death #informeddecision #punishment #retreat #riskanalysis #riskassessment

A MOMENT OF SILENT REFLECTION ... for all the craziness in this world. Meow. #caturday #errtlings #bookcafe #news #society #ballroom #war #peace #crime #punishment #writing #art #ai #android_dreams #space #religion #philosophy #good #evil #media #halloween #paranormal_things #xenobiology #junk

A quotation from Charles Mackay

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The South-Sea Bubble” (1841)

More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79186…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #downfall #gambling #inevitability #nation #nationalsecurity #punishment #risktaking

Thursday, September 18, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/09/thursday-september-18-2025/

Hello Fediverse! 👋 / Hallo Fediverse!
I’m Christian Wickert, Professor of Sociology & Criminology and editor of SozTheo.com (EN) & SozTheo.de (DE).

On SozTheo I publish resources on crime, deviance, policing, punishment & social control – for students, researchers & anyone curious about society.

Here I’ll share updates & key concepts from #Criminology / #Sociology.

#Criminology #Sociology #Deviance #Policing #Punishment #SocialControl #SocialScience #AcademicMastodon #Introduction

#Imperialists be like: TIME FOR YOUR REGULARLY #SCHEDULED #GENERATIONAL #COLLECTIVE #PUNISHMENT!

Many such #cases.

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

Our repentance is not so much regret for the evil we have done, as fear of its consequences to us.
 
[Notre repentir n’est pas tant un regret du mal que nous avons fait, qu’une crainte de celui qui nous en peut arriver.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶180 (1665-1678) [ed. Gowens (1851), ¶187]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #consequences #dread #fear #punishment #regret #remorse #sin #repentance #retribution #selfinterest

#Fascist much, #DonTheCon? Must be reading his copy of #MeinKampf again. Britt commentary refers to "14 Characteristics of Fascism" by #LawrenceBritt.

10 alarming things #Trump has promised to do in a second term

by Judd Legum
and Rebecca Crosby
Dec 12, 2023

1. Trump says he will "abuse power" and be a "dictator" on "day one."

2. Trump says #ElectionFraud in 2020 gives him the power to "terminate" the Constitution
[Britt: "Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by #SmearCampaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control #voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections."]

3. Trump says he will issue "full pardons" to #January6 #insurrectionists
[Britt: "Rampant #Cronyism and #Corruption"]

4. Trump says he will cut funding to schools that cover subjects he believes are "inappropriate"
[Britt: "Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts"]

5. Trump says he will legally erase trans people and ban them from military service
[Britt: "The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to #abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation."]

6. Trump says he will end birthright citizenship by executive order
[Britt: Identification of #Enemies / #Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause"]

7. Trump says he will impose a new 10% tax on all imported goods
[Britt: "Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism"]

8. Trump says he will investigate NBC and MSNBC for treason and potentially remove the company from public airwaves
[Britt: "Controlled #MassMedia"]

9. Trump says he will demand anyone convicted of selling drugs get the death penalty
[Britt: "Obsession with #Crime and #Punishment"]

10. Trump says he will order the arrest of all urban homeless and relocate them to federally-run tent cities
[Britt: "Disdain for the Recognition of #HumanRights"]

Full article:
https://popular.info/p/10-alarming-things-trump-has-promised

#CharacteristicsOfFascism #MAGA #Fascism #History #RabidRight #ChristoFascism #Project2025

Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of #Fascism

[Unattributed, but based on the writings of #UmbertoEco]

"#Historian #LawrenceBritt studied the fascist regimes of #Hitler (Germany), #Mussolini (Italy), #Franco (Spain), #Suharto (Indonesia), and #Pinochet (Chile) and found they had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.

1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of #HumanRights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners.

3. Identification of #Enemies / #Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: #racial, #ethnic or #religious #minorities; #liberals; #communists; #socialists, #terrorists…

4. Supremacy of the #Military
Even when there are widespread #domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to #abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

6. Controlled #MassMedia
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government #censorship and #secrecy especially in war time, are very common.

7. Obsession with #NationalSecurity
Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. #Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.

9. Protection of #Corporate Power
The #industrial and business #aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Suppression of #Labor Power
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor #unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

12. Obsession with #Crime and #Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the #police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego #CivilLiberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant #Cronyism and #Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. #FraudulentElections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by #SmearCampaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control #voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

This post is a summary of Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine."

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/

#History #Histodon #RabidRight #Antifa #Antifascism #FarRight #Trump #Putin #Russia #MAGA #Project2025 #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DetentionCenters #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterIDLaws #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent

It's no surprise that monsters who beat their #children literally to #death are advocates of corporal #punishment ("spanking"), and hide behind the barbaric practice when justifying their horrific #abuse. #Spanking is not a legitimate disciplinary method. We, as a society, know better. Unfortunately, not everyone got the message, and the #beatings continue under the guise of legitimate #discipline. Stop hitting your fucking children.

https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/31/couple-accused-of-beating-adopted-son-5-to-death-launched-gofundme-19219328/

#Cop #busted calling an #activist an #antigay #slur. Now he has to #pay. The #activist says the #punishment of 5 days without pay didn’t go far enough.

“How can the citizens of #Danbury trust that Iacobellis can #protectandserve with such #hateful and #homophobic #views”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Connecticut #Police #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia #NoPoliceAtPride

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/cop-busted-calling-an-activist-a-gay-slur-now-he-has-to-pay/