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by feralchimp 5205 days ago
The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows—will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves civilized.

"Surely"? Let's start with "hopefully" and rigorously work our way up to "probably."