I had a political science professor talk about working in a campaign with a politician who tried to make a compromise with people for or against the death penalty.
The compromise was that inmates given a life sentence would be offered a lethal pill that they could take at any time. I think he said the idea was that they would have it in their cell to use at any time.
That shit sounded fucking wild to me, but I was like 18 at the time and didn’t know why I felt that way.
Looking back now, the psychological torture of being imprisoned for life with a pill like that would be immense and immoral as fuck.
Anyway, that’s just one from me. What about the rest of you?
once had a Russian language teacher who believed that Putin was chosen by God to restore the Romanov dynasty and unite Europe. He had a picture of him hanging above the board and a smaller picture of the Romanovs on his desk. Edit: He also believed Rasputin was still alive. He believes what happened prior to being thrown in the river, he just thinks he survived and that the body they found was a double. Edit 2 since I keep remembering things: He also thought Rasputin put a curse on Russia to send it into “100 years of darkness”, which came true when the revolution came into power. I took his class in 2016, and he was very excited about Russia’s prospects in 2017. Also believed in russiagate, but he agreed with it.
a cooler teacher once said “wanna see my balls” the second she walked in then pulled a set of taxedermied kangaroo testicles out of her desk
He also thought Rasputin put a curse on Russia to send it into “100 years of darkness”, which came true when the revolution came into power.
Dude thought that the Anastasia cartoon was a documentary
