USA to livestream execution

[to v or not to v]

Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmy0r96xygx6o

i was genuinely surprised when i heard this. still am.
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[stinkwheel]

It's like going back to the roman empire, it'll be fights to the death in a collaseum next.


I believe this would put the USA in a very short list of countries who carry out public executions along with Iran, North Korea, Somalia and Saudi Arabia. Even the Russians just take people quietly out the back and put a bullet in their head, they don't make a song and dance about it..
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[Easy-X]

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When the empire fell, it became the New Republic.
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[Raffles]

[blurredman]

As PKD said. "The Empire never ended", anyway.
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[mentalboy]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I wonder if they’ll just end up throwing the guy off a tall building. They seem to be heading that way.

[Raffles]

Ain't gonna happen...
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[mentalboy]

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[mentalboy]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I can well understand why voters constantly disillusioned with establishment politicians would choose an apparently radical candidate and I don’t think a “low education” should make their vote any less valid. Reluctantly I’m a potential (and highly educated, though I could still be thick) Reform voter and while I don’t equate what they might do in the UK with Trumpism (because we are very different societies) I can see parallels in terms of a disillusioned electorate and a last resort.

Surely though, the MAGA crowd now know they’ve been failed again and I wonder where they turn next. Civil disobedience seems to be the only way, and I don’t mean riots, I mean a general withdrawal from civic responsibility; an even more selfish society.

If we assume JD Vance bids to be Trump’s successor will he try to take at least some of Trumpism forward or will he openly reject that history? I’d like to think for him either way is untenable and he’s finished, but who’s next? Will Trump’s eventual departure simply let the old guard back in unchanged, or will they have evolved in response? My hope for Reform is that they will provoke the latter in the UK, and then fade away. If they fail to achieve even that, then the aforementioned civil disobedience will follow, and I don’t want to see it.

As to the USA’s international reputation, I think Europe in particular has tolerated them for decades; the so-called WW2 “debt”, their occupation of European bases under the guise of “protecting Europe” when they’ve mostly just been launch pads for their oil wars in the Middle East, their dominance over the UN. Tolerance no more. Trump’s obvious alliance with Putin isn’t the worst of it, it’s the absence of any effective opposition to a Quisling president.

I do think the USA will be eyed with suspicion going forward and will have to work with the international community instead of riding roughshod over it. I hope so anyway.