You’re a barbaric nation for many reasons already, this will just be another nail in the coffin.
I always thought their oath of allegiance, done every day in school, sounded so much like something kids in North Korea would be forced to do.
This is just another thing to add to the pile.
Lol the fact that you’re even comparing them to a country that they literally genocided speaks to the effectiveness of American propaganda. Glad y’all eyes are starting to open up, but America has always been the evil country doing evil things lol.
What if we execute him with a bag over his head but his nipples are out. That would be kind of progressive.
If… and this is in the sidebar:
Straight newrepublic link for me, either OP changed this within 12 minutes of your comment before I loaded the page, or something weird is going on for you, maybe some sort of caching and you got an older version of the post? Which client do you use?
Oh, I wasn’t clear.
Pointing out irony. The sidebar shows the rules for the community and that article. Today I’m using FF as my client. Usually Jerboa.
The image is a direct refutation of the usage of “IF” in this context. It was a funny juxtaposition.
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the US has streamed several executions already. they just happened to be extrajudicial carried out by police/ICE
Those were streamed incidentally, not officially.
When police body cameras are always on and you execute someone, you’re not streaming it “accidentally”. You know you have a camera on your body while you murder someone and choose to do it anyway.
This is a really odd argument that I can’t understand, there is a categorical difference between an official broadcast of a scheduled execution and the video from a police body camera being released following the police killing someone. I don’t understand how you can say they are the same thing, whether the cop remembers in the moment they have a camera on is irrelevant. Capturing an incident as part of routine recording and then releasing that video after the fact is not at all like scheduling an execution and broadcasting it live for the world to watch.
I don’t understand how you can say they are the same thing
The people doing the killing knows the cameras are on, watching their actions. And they go ahead and kill someone anyway.
Just because the US justice system hides tax payer paid public servants from concealing their lawfully required body cam footage is a US justice problem. But the cops know they’re being recorded at all times and they’ll kill an unarmed civilian anyway.
I am not following. From my perspective, the people doing the killing are in very different circumstances and the purpose of the cameras are completely different. The message being sent with an execution being conducted like this seems completely different than the message being sent when there is a release of bodycam footage showing police killing someone.
No. We’re not a barbaric nation. It’s this particular administration. And if someone says it’s the people who voted for them you should first consider how people can be manipulated into believing the world is something that it’s not.
We’ve always been a barbaric nation. Please stop pretending that we haven’t.
That America is planning to do it already proves barbarism. Just like Republicans don’t need a successful fascist takeover to prove they are fascists. They already are.
If a country is executing its own citizens, that country is already a barbaric nation.
We passed the “barbaric” marker a long time ago.
Yes, but this publication is conservative. When they’re saying it’s barbaric, it’s bad.
No if. You run torture camps where you detain people you’ve kidnapped from around the world. You kill innocent fishermen with navy seals. You murder entire weddings in drone strikes. You bomb baby food factories. You arm the Indonesians to carry out a genocide in East Timor. You drop chemical weapons on Vietnam. You bomb Cambodia and Laos, rendering about a million homeless. You kill one million in Iraq. You fund a genocide in Palestine. You fund a genocide in Guatemala. You bombed Yugoslavia when a diplomatic alternative that you proposed is on the table. You’ve turned Libya into an open air slave market. You’ve had Cuba in an economic stranglehold for decades, culminating in the current crisis. You’re the only nation that ever dropped an atomic bomb on civilian centers, and you did it twice. Six figure death toll those days alone. There’s no if. You’re a barbaric shitstain of a nation. Death to America.
Even if it doesn’t, its only because everyone refused to do it.
Whats important, is that Trump and his sycophants CLEARLY want this. And they don’t see the problem either
Hate to break it to you, but this has always been a barbaric nation that was founded on colonialism and genocide. Putting an execution behind closed doors does not change that.
After 3 years of full fledged US-backed livestreamed genocide it is quite astounding people are upset about an execution being livestreamed
Every nation is barbaric. Show me one that isn’t.
Maybe we can stay on topic, big guy, we’re shitting on America right now.
I’ve been waiting 40 years now for that leftward swing.
Best we’ve done so far is Obama passing a heritage foundation free market based “healthcare” system.
Don’t forget extending and building upon the Patriot Act!
Let’s quit pretending like we’re not! It doesn’t mean we all are or that we are all the time, but we fucking are!
The only way we can truly change things is by coming to terms with reality.
America is light and dark.
