It’s a creative approach that can be further developed in other countries with corruption issues.
Here’s the fantasy I had during term 1:
We nab the fucker, re-open alcatraz, tar & feather him, toss him in a cell, make it a tourist attraction where citizens visit, jeer, and throw corn kernels at the piece of shit.
Then, he went and proposed we re-open alcatraz. It’s fated.
I mean, Alcatraz would solve a lot of the issues surrounding imprisoning a former president.
The US should adopt this but with a wood chipper or volcano.
Monkeys paw will curl on this. The ruling authoritarian party will completely avoid this fate , and will only do this to their political enemies
So, same outcome without the wish given the current trajectory?
The government wouldn’t be orchestrating it though
Ooooooh 👏😄
Texas tar. America first!
oh no their feet get wet thats so terrible
how about putting them in some hole in the ground where people can shit on
They should try hanging them upside down at least
Bunga bunga parties seem a more internationally popular Italian political custom.
cowabunga?
It’s what Silvio Berlusconi’s sex parties with underage prostitutes were called.
He was a media billionaire who used his control of the media to get elected prime minister and evade prosecution for various crimes.
A number of writers and political commentators considered Berlusconi’s political success a precedent for the 2016 United States presidential election of real estate tycoon Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States,[250][251][252] with most citing Berlusconi’s panned prime ministerial tenure and therefore making the comparison in dismay. Roger Cohen of The New York Times wrote: “Widely ridiculed, endlessly written about, long unscathed by his evident misogyny and diverse legal travails, Berlusconi proved a Teflon politician … Nobody who knows Berlusconi and has watched the rise and rise of Donald Trump can fail to be struck by the parallels.”[253] In The Daily Beast, Barbie Latza Nadeau wrote: “If Americans are wondering just what a Trump presidency would look like, they only need to look at the traumatized remains of Italy after Berlusconi had his way.”[254] During the 2016 United States election, Politico described Berlusconi as the closest parallel to Trump in a historical world leader.[255] In a piece written for Slate and published in April 2017, Lorenzo Newman noted the similarities in the career trajectories between the two.[256]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi#Comparisons_to_other_leaders
Creative, but clearly not particularly effective given Italy’s continued reputation for corruption.
given Italy’s continued reputation for corruption.
No where near as bad as the USA. Not even close.
But it’s legal here. Called “lobbying” and “SuperPAC” ;)
That’s just free speech obviously
It’s the corrupt politicians putting corrupt politicians in the cages.
The way they punished Mussolini is great as well
They didn’t hang him by his ankles, though. They beat him to death and the soldiers hung him by his ankles so people would stop stomping on him.
He was shot to death privately, and then his body was lain in a square where people beat him until his face was unrecognizable, THEN they hung him by the ankles.
Thorough. You can never be sure.
Ender’s Solution: Make sure they can NEVER rise and heart you again.
We all already agreed it was great, you can stop selling.
Hey, whatever works, the job was done.
I think I’d prefer the guillotine approach for politicians that were found guilty, in a federal court.
Too quick. Slowly lower the cage until the bubbles stop. Consider raising it a few days later.
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But if you keep the cage under the water just for a few minutes longer - there will be a lot more action. You can livestream it.
Good old American bloodthirst
Ah yes, the well known American invention, the guillotine
Hey, this time we earned it.
Can it be boiling water?
A guy and his sister went and tried swimming in Yellowstone and the guy wound up getting dissolved. If I remember right, all they found was some bones and his wallet. Just floating ideas here.
Look at the size of the bones on that rat!
If the wallet was okay, it might not be hot enough.
Acidity vs heat? Give me acidity.
The Hot Acid Challenge™ could be the next viral fundraiser for charity.
How many influencers can we throw into this boiling pit of acid before the ph balances? Let’s find out. Cutback with rotation reveals Mrbeast dangling upside down from a crane.
The neat thing about acidity is that it produces its own heat when you feed it your flesh!
#themoreyouknow
How many months do you leave them in the water? 50? 60? Or do you ever take them back out?
Didn’t they do this in Water World?
and Vietnam
ISIS also did it in Syria, with horrendously well produced slick videos.
Also yes
If anyone is more familiar with this, what is the culture around this like? I get the feeling that the nominations would be for scandals that are “bad” but not so “bad” that people are actually angry about it. Do people usually accept the punishment if nominated, has anyone said no?
Some interesting bits:
Before the Tonca comes the Tribunale di Penitenza (Court of Penance) during which members of the “court” name someone as deserving of being dunked in the river and make their case for the nomination. The comedic satire—which features a judge, defense attorney, prosecutor and someone playing the role of the accused—eventually finds some innocent while declaring the serious offenders guilty and condemned to the Tonca as a penalty. Reportedly, Tonca is held on the final Sunday before June 26 when the festivities come to an end. Last year, it happened on June 19 and six people were found guilty.
In today’s time, the ones who are nominated are not blasphemers but they might have done something which was scandalous or controversial. While it is mostly politicians who are nominated, this is not always the case.
Last year, the nominees were the last four presidents of the province for delaying a new hospital and a nurse who was charged with falsifying COVID test results. Not all people are nominated for serious offenses. Two politicians were put up for punishment for their opposition to a concert by popular Italian singer-songwriter Vasco Rossi.
The final verdict comes a few days later and the ones who are deemed the worst are placed inside the cage. The person is ceremoniously dunked in the river three times, just as it was done in the past.
Yeah it’s not for criminal stuff, just usual grievances with politicians and such. It’s lighthearted and usually taken in stride as part of the tradition.
next level would be cutting the rope
in other countries with corruption issues
Weird way of saying “all countries”
The Italians have been throwing corrupt politicians into the Tiber for literally millennia
That was ALSO an important part of the Roman republic. Not sure who needs to hear this, but ya know…
Ohh, in ancient China they did the same thing, but for adultery and to the death.
