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Missouri speaks for the entire US now?

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The US can be judged by the actions of any single state. It’s all the same country 🙄

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Like a book can be judged by its cover cause its all the same book?

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Like a book can be judged by one of it’s 50 chapters.

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Do you need someone to explain how stupid this is, or have you calmed down since you reacted?

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The fact that the US federal government has the power to outlaw this but doesn’t, that this specific execution was brought before the Supreme Court and they voted against blocking it 6–3, and the fact that the majority of US states (27) and the federal government have this on the books speak for the US now, yes.

Taken to an absurd extreme, let’s imagine that the US federal government and 27 of its states explicitly had statutes on the books stating “you can legally rape puppies”, and you stepping in and saying “Well that doesn’t speak for the entire US! Stop trying to make it sound like everyone condones puppy rape just because Missouri allows it!” Would you say that then? Because I feel like any rational person would be asking “Why does the US allow this to happen?” If not, why would you say it here? The US is simply backwards in this regard.

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Puppy rape? Is that supposed to be an argument?

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Would you come to the US’ defense in the same way that you are right now over state-sanctioned murder in the situation I outlined? It’s a very simple yes/no question that you’re tiptoeing around for seemingly no reason.

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Sure, we’ll pretend that this hasn’t been happening here for hundreds of years across all 50 states.

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SCOTUS does

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Actually SCOTUS speaks for Trump since he was the POS that installed them.

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The people are responsible for who they elect and the actions they take. So millions of people in the US are to blame for this even if they aren’t a majority thanks to how elections work in the US since Clinton won the popular vote.

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Missouri isn’t so different from everywhere else

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Where are you from?

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I’ve spent a lifetime traveling the united states. i originate from Appalachia. bad and racist judgements come all across the country. any state with the death penalty on the books will eventually do this, and any state that doesn’t have the death penalty on the books has around 30% of people minimum who think it should be. you’re deluding yourself if you don’t think everywhere is like everywhere else just with different ratios of who is around

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