When one of the insurrectionists from Capitol Hill got six years I got in a huge argument with some dumb fuck here when I said that's not nearly enough time.
Even the left is trying to make sure these people aren't punished severely.
Wel it’s not really as straight forward as all that. A lot of leftists are abolitionists. The concept of a state jailing someone isn’t something to be advocated for when every other day you don’t believe the system should exist. Your ideals being flexible based on who gets hurt means they aren’t ideals at all.
That's how I interpreted it. There are many ways to write that which completely avoid confusion, but they chose the only way that allows that confusion.
As I've said for years, English is a shit language.
Bob sent a birthday card
Means Bob mailed it to someone
Bob was sent a birthday card
Means Bob received it.
We still keep headlines short, so the "was" gets dropped, and we're left with an ambiguous sentence that literally means the opposite of what context clues tell us it means.
It makes sense when you realize headlines start out as full sentences but then get trimmed down as short as possible.