You can do something intentionally and still have someone consider that stupid. I get a lot of downvotes because people like him punished. I'm fine with him being punished, i am not fine with politicians acting as employers. A politician should also not be able to vote on the salary of a teacher, policeman or someone who cleans the government buildings. That is what i called stupid, the fact that he can punish someone for something wrong.
I'm not defending him, that's the result of me arguing the system should be fair. If his employer would fire him, i would be silent. Politicians are not employers. Let's look at it from another perspective; imagine a colleague of this racist have an x account where he tells people to come to protests about climate change, do you think a politician should have something to say about his salary too?
If you don't break a law you shouldn't be punished by the office that is about whether laws were followed or not. I know that sounds crazy. He could be punished by his employer, fine. He could be punished by an angry mob, fine. But if this guy gets punished while not breaking the law, you can bet some other people who didn't break the law will still get punished. For me considering something legally fair has nothing to do with what he deserves. I don't think we'll come to agree on that.
Because the rule of law is, that if you commit crime x you get punishment y. Lowering salary is not a regular punishment. If he would be fined with paying a fine the amount of his salary that would be ok with me. I'm not saying this man doesn't deserve punishment. But if his punishment was torture i'd also call that unfair.
Rule of Law means equal punishment for equal crimes regardless of the person committing them, so he should get the same punishment as someone who doesn't work at ICE.
This is so stupid, he does bad things on X and then as punishment they lower his salary? Not that i really care what happens to this man but this doesn't sound like a fair system to me. Either he is guilty and should get a fine or go to jail, or he is innocent and goes to work (however evil that job is) and gets paid like usual.
Would be cool if there would be a study on this, what amount of emission is saved by handing out ozempic and the likes and whether that is a good way of spending money aside from the health benefits.
I saw this in the Dutch news two days ago and almost started looking for an English-language article to post here - but i figured someone else will do it sooner than later lol. But great news though, also for the climate ;).
Nice, didn't know this! According to the article "The numeral system originates from an ancient Indian numeral system," so i guess confusing names are a feauture of numerical symbols, and not a bug.
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You can do something intentionally and still have someone consider that stupid. I get a lot of downvotes because people like him punished. I'm fine with him being punished, i am not fine with politicians acting as employers. A politician should also not be able to vote on the salary of a teacher, policeman or someone who cleans the government buildings. That is what i called stupid, the fact that he can punish someone for something wrong.