Fires set in drop boxes destroy hundreds of ballots in Washington and damage 3 in Oregon
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Incendiary devices have been set off at two ballot drop boxes — one in Portland, Oregon, and another in nearby Vancouver, Washington — in what one official called a “direct attack on democracy."

The ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon both have fire suppression systems that are designed to activate when the temperature inside reaches a certain point, coating ballots inside with a fire-suppressing powder.

For unknown reasons, the system failed to prevent the destruction of hundreds of ballots in Vancouver, just across the Columbia River from Portland.

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
    11·
    15 days ago

    I think they’re referring to using punishment less as a deterrent to potential future offenders and more as a way of getting the people who prove themselves incapable of living in a civil society off of the streets. I don’t mean to speak for anyone, that was just my takeaway.

      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
        22·
        14 days ago

        You got to Godwin’s Law territory in record time, there. I’m talking about throwing the book at literal fucking terrorists.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          21·
          14 days ago

          See that’s setting an example, which Inverse Parallax specifically said they were done with. Do you see my problem here?

          Also concentration camps are not Godwin’s law territory, plenty of other countries have used them, including the US.

          • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
            11·
            14 days ago

            You know what image that kind of language invokes. It’s also not germane to the issue either way, because I’m not talking about politically persecuting people, I’m talking about judicial expediency dealing with people who are committing actual crimes and using their political views as justification for it.

            • Maggoty@lemmy.world
              11·
              14 days ago

              Uh huh, yeah. The crime here being… (Checks up thread) Living in a rural area.

                • Maggoty@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  12 days ago

                  And who are you? You’re out here defending something awfully close to stochastic terrorism by assuming all the worst stuff about the people someone else was talking about. They literally said,

                  You can’t prosecute the meth out of a redneck, America has tried for decades.

                  There are people who have the basic mammalian capability for aversion association, and people who don’t, these morons are no more capable of >learning than ants.

                  Don’t bother trying to set an example, just use enforced attrition.

                  And you’re out here like, they’re obviously talking about the locking up criminals. And you blow right by the fact that long sentences are the traditional means of setting an example, it’s already a thing to lock people up in way they never come back to the street, as an example. So what’s next? What’s further down the path? Beyond long sentences to set an example? Well your bestest buddy here uses the words, “enforced attrition.” Let’s have a look at the definitions for those words.

                  Enforced - To cause something to happen by force.

                  Attrition - The action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure.

                  So we’re going cause the reduction in strength of rednecks by force. And lest you think we would be talking about forcing them to eat less, this is a specific example in the dictionary for attrition,

                  The gradual reduction of a workforce by employees’ leaving and not being replaced rather than by their being laid off.

                  So I don’t know where you went to school, but at mine they taught us critical reading. And this reads like some shit Goebbels would say. And that’s proving Godwin’s Law.