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Gil Duran: Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings [View all]
Joe Lonsdale, a billionaire member of the “PayPal Mafia” who is also a co-founder of Palantir, wants a return to draconian punishment and public executions in the United States.
Wrote Lonsdale on X yesterday:
If I'm in charge later, we won't just have a three strikes law. We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes.
And yes, we will do it in public to deter others.
Our society needs balance. It’s time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable.
If I'm in charge later, we won't just have a three strikes law. We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes.
And yes, we will do it in public to deter others.
Our society needs balance. It’s time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable.
The venture capitalist was responding to a writer who had criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s enthusiastic tweets about murdering people on boats in the Caribbean.
On December 4, Andrew Kolvet—a spokesman for Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA—praised Hegseth for his bombing campaign against fishing boats, which he accuses of drug smuggling. Critics say the bombings, which have killed scores of people without due process, may constitute murder or war crimes.
“Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean,” wrote Kolvet.
“Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat,” replied Hegseth.
https://www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale-calls-for-public-hangings/
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