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?

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One of my profs said he worked for an NGO to spread democracy in Paraguay. He was also incredibly well travelled and knows 4-5 languages. To this day I think he’s a fed.

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Oh yeah that all tracks. Spreading democracy in another country is a huge tell.

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My brainworms would be firing nonstop even if it was Lenin himself talking about democracy in Russia

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spread democracy

He’s a lizard.

Maybe you should pay him a visit,

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Shhhh. Don’t think about it. My professor didn’t

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Good lord what a fucking idiot

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I got a c in his class too lmao

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My high school English teacher had a framed photograph of George W. Bush in the classroom and constantly referred to him as the best president the United States ever had. And to top if off, I vaguely recall her talking about how she had a crush on him and considered him attractive. This was in 2015.

It’s surreal to remember because at the time for whatever I reason I didn’t think much of it. It wasn’t until a year after I graduated that the recollection of it suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks in a case of fridge horror. How does a human being become so brain poisoned?

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Oh no oh no oh no. That’s all kinds of bad. At first I thought you were going to say some time during his presidency, maybe after that one day, I forget. But 2015? That’s bananas.

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Reminds me of that scene in Jesus Camp where the lady has all the kids bless a cardboard cutout of Bush

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I get the bush being hot appeal tbh

sorry

let the team down

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Teacher said his uncle needed a tooth pulled but didn’t have any money. So he decides to do it himself and get shitfaced to numb the pain. He got so drunk he couldn’t tell which tooth it was so he pulled a couple to be safe

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:horror:

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Dudes rock

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thats badass

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He was a carnival clown… incase those weren’t scary enough

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:amerikkka:

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