It is nothing short of murder for pay. The media companies are guaranteed to already be selling ad space for it and it will bring in billions. And- we should all know already that the nazi organization known as MAGA have already claimed their share of it.
PLEASE- Do not watch this. Do not let them monetize executions.
This paves the way for judges to issue executions far more frequently and will result in the most colossally vile abuse of our legal system we will ever know.
DO NOT WATCH IT. DO NOT SUPPORT MONETIZING MURDER.
(EDIT: it’s been brought to my attention that people need their hand held so, what I am referring to here is that MAGA is going to use American military and social media to publicly execute someone. Whoever hosted it will absolutely profit from it and there is no way MAGA isn’t also going to take their cut)
Do not let them monetize executions.
No worries, it was always gonna get pirated.
“Don’t watch the snuff film!”
Well, okay. I wasn’t. But now I’m still not.
You’d be surprised that people don’t know what’s behind shit like this. They’ll watch it not knowing that their view counts as support to ensure it continues.
I doubt they care if anyone supports it. They’re just doing it to get their own rocks off. It will continue as long as they’re there.
While I don’t know if the stream will be monetized, I can see how the event being profitable would incentivize more of it
You doubt Trump cares about viewership numbers?
Why would he care? He’ll just invent the number anyway regardless.
People are stupid, thats why I lost hope in any real fight against this
This is literally turning into Monday Night Rehabilitation from Idiocracy.
This whole cabinet is like a less funny version of that movie.
in Idiocracy they are idiots that know it and try to do good. This has nothing to do with these human fecal dejections at the white house.
The people in Idiocracy are dumb. The people in power now are cruel and dumb.
This administration would be fucking hilarious if People werent dying because of this admin
What if I told you live streaming the execution wasn’t about the money? The regime will claw money wherever they want.
It’s about power, humiliation, dehumanization, and desensitization.
It’s also a test. Can we get away with publicly executing people? They seem to have done it so far, cops and ICE have done it for a while.
It won’t stop at public execution of death row inmates. The Nazi train is full steam ahead, and there will be a lot more death, a lot more suffering, and a lot of people enjoying every fucking second of it. Why? Because that’s the only thing they enjoy. Its a disease that is only curable one way.
I agree, it’s about continuing to shift the US away from a democracy into an authoritarian regime. It’s a message for the opposition when they begin to steal the midterms.
It’s also about making more people complicit in the regime’s crimes.
And the scary part?
People who personally knew him for a long time said “DO NOT VOTE FOR HIM, HE IS SHIT”. And people still voted for him
Anyone reading regional northeast news, knew he was a shit for decades.
Somehow paying for an insipid “reality” show to rehabilitate his image worked. What does that say about our fellow citizens?
The reason is irrelevant. That it’s happening at all is abhorrent. And I’d imagine it’s about all of the things.
Besides. It can be both. Seeing as how money = power = money.
I’ve got a better reason… Watching it will only make you a worse person. And I don’t mean in the sense it’s morally wrong, but that the act of joining in the crowd cheering for suffering and death will inevitably chip away at your empathy
I doubt the primary reason is monetary, this is the kind of wannabe influencer bullshit the MAGA leaders love to put on. It’s performative larper fascism. I’m sure someone will find a way to make a profit, but they’re doing it for the sake of doing it. It just makes their nipples hard
But more importantly, hate is a poison. Exposure makes it just a little bit easier to stomach next time. It’s feeding the wolf in you that lusts for hurting others
Every American needs to watch to drive home the horror about what their country has become. Every one of them should be forced to watch. Because turning away from the spectacle is turning away from the horror. No American should be allowed to bury their fucking head in the sand and pretend like it’s not as bad as it is.
Fuck that. You do not need to watch a live streamed snuff film. Absolutely not
That will not drive any point home that a decent person wants people to understand, have you seen someone die violently before? I have. I reacted by getting children away before trying to help, I had the benefit of acting perfectly according to my morals without thought
The most disturbing part is how life just goes on like nothing happened. The most disturbing part how easily you can witness a death you have no part in and just keep going. Like it never even happened
I see what you’re trying to go for, but this is not the way.
Even if it were Epstein himself, I’d be against it being publicized. Heinous crimes should be taken seriously and even if the courts agree to a death sentence, it should not be celebrated. No amount of death can change the damage that was already caused.
I am so far as to boycott any service which streams this. Even if it gets unpleasant.
This is the way!
I don’t even know what the fuck you’re talking about.
A guy who shot up a military base in Texas (murica) some time back is going to be executed by firing squad (murica) and they have said it will be livestreamed (murica)
Whaaaat the fuck?
That’s the correct reaction, thank you
Pete Hegseth is live-streaming a military execution soon.
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No need to check my comments. It’s just part of the news. It’s a thing that is happening that is being widely covered.
Widely covered in America. The rest of the world probably skipped that one.
I’m aware of it, mostly because of my doomscrolling of Fediverse but I also saw a Brazilian news outlet (G1 Globo) publishing a news article about it. So I can guarantee you; no, we “the rest of the world” didn’t skip that one.
In fact, personally, I’m far from merely aware of the upcoming USian “Faces of Death 2026 Remake” as a Brazilian; it’s one of the things actively weighing currently in my head in ways that, simultaneously with all the ongoing shitshow I’m watching going on in this demiurgic world and around me, are further desensitizing me regarding my own… fate.
Oh, it goes without saying, no, I’m not going to watch the awful upcoming live assassination.
Unless Reuters, BBC, and the Associated Press are secluded to the US only, its world news.
And for those of us who don’t have our antenna/cable connected, and live in Australia… or anywhere else in the world…?
Context does help when you’re posting on a website the world has access to
Then I guess it really wasn’t meant for them to begin with and it’s okay if they just scroll past it.
A significant part of Lemmy is very US centric and that’s why it’s hard to find anything interesting.
So it’s alright with you if someone from another country stumbles across a link or advertisement for the live execution and pays to see it? As long as they’re not american…
Jesus fucking Bean Soup, dude. Not everything caters to you. That you don’t care doesn’t mean it’s not a relevant topic
Most people across the world, when following news, don’t check Reuters, BBC and AP. They’re all in English and pay little attention to more narrow national news outside US/UK.
Fair enough. I can see that. The point remains however.
Reuters and BBC have news about it, but it’s not top news. You need to scroll a bit and keep your eyes open or you’ll miss it.
Oh. Well then please accept my apologies for posting about something that so many people are unaware of. I’ll get and keep the entire population of lemmy’s interests in mind before I think to post about something that concerns me.
You’re welcome. Always glad to be of assistance.
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Hey kiddo. This wasn’t for you. You really need to stop the entitled bulshit and scroll past things that don’t pertain to you. Mmmkay?
Tell your little entitled friends to stop attacking people for posting shit that they have no interest in, or aren’t informed about and I won’t have to call them out in defense of myself.
Blocking you because you’re annoying.
American mind can’t comprend the world is bigger than the anglosphere
Foreign mind can’t comprehend that not everything is meant for their consumption.
You posted this on !general@lemmy.world. And you have the gall to talk down to people asking what it is about.
Bro I live in America and your vague-ass post is the first I’ve heard of this. I guess I live under a rock, idk, but you don’t have to act like an asshole to people who have no idea what you’re talking about.
I’m not acting like an asshike. I’m just tired of hiding peoples hands and guiding them to a point. For fucks sake. If they don’t know what’s happening or what the pair is about, they can move on. I don’t go making fun of people and being an asshole to others when they pair shit I don’t understand.
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Believe it or not, complaining about “handholding” people who just haven’t looked at the news yet today and happened to stumble across your post first, sounds a lot like being an asshole.
Yet it’s not being an asshole to comment on a post complaining that you don’t understand it?
There a fuckton of shit posted on lemmy I don’t understand. Linux shit. Cybersecurity shit. Anime shit…. You’ve know what I do?
I move past it. It’s not for me. I don’t need to understand it and indont act like an asshole to the authors of these posts that I don’t get it.
I’m not entitled to understand everything I consume. So how about you go complain to the kids that believe energy. They read needs to be undershot and direly written and formatted for their abject understanding.
You can bet I won’t ever post to this community again though. So congrats- touve helped to curate the content in your little walled garden.
Maybe try paying attention to what’s going on.
The 5 seconds you spent making a snide response could have been used to just add an informative link instead. And doing that would have the potential to inform people and bring them to your side. Hundreds of lurkers aren’t going to look up the totally unknown thing you’re upset about, especially when you’re being antagonistic. They’re just going to dismiss you and your message and move on to the next post. But if your goal is to feel superior and dunk on folks who are less informed about US current events than you, then: great job! keep up the good work!
The story that OP, myself and countless other USians are upset about (among so many other daily awful events): # Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmy0r96xygx6o
I don’t care for holding peoples hands. It’s a pretty major story. One can’t avoid see this unless they are intentionally avoiding it. And if they are, then they need to see posts like this with the hopes that it might influence them to start paying attention.
This effect all of us.
*affects
*iOS autocorrect. I’m done correcting it.
Maybe don’t assume everyone on the fediverse is USA-ian.
It’s world news bud. America is part of the world.
I assume you know about the guy who decided to eat an onion because that occurred in the world too.
To be fair that was the prime minister of Australia at the time and he did it in front of cameras during an interview, brown onion, skin and all.
He was the worst prime minister Australia had ever seen (not for the onion, his other policies were also shit house) but holy moly he looks like a socialist saint compared to the current US admin.
You should stop assuming. That’s what causes these problems.
So you’re the only one who can safely make assumptions on behalf of others? Ok, noted.
What assumptions have I made?
Maybe try establishing an introduction to your rants instead of assuming we all live within your headspace.
Maybe try paying attention and not expecting people to hold your hand. That or maybe try accepting that if you don’t know what someone is talking about- move on, it’s not for you.
So gather all information about a thing we should not watch? Kinda like asking for a link to be sure we can avoid it.
This is the 1st time I hear about it, so your post kinda defeats the purpuse, it sparks intrest.
No hate for you tho. I am against any kind of execution, deserved or otherwise. Making a circus + money out of it make me vomit.
So…. MAGA is going to publicly execute someone live.
I wonder why they decided to do it that way…
Most likely as a publicity stunt to distract the voter base from their many egregious, embarrassing failures. Picking a topic where they look like monsters at least avoids discussion of their weakness and how much of a chump you’d have to be to vote for them to remain in power.
Because they’re perpetually 12 and think it’s “cool”
This is my guess as well
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it’s the two minutes hate.
This is a good analogy. I didn’t think about that before. It really is “direct your hate here and not against your oppressors” in public.
the unfortunate part is the only people who are going to participate are the people who really don’t need to participate.
Is this really general discussion? Like if I wasn’t on PTO right now and back at work, would my coworkers talk to me about this?
Mine absolutely would, but I work in government so it’s fairly relevant.
I believe they would. And if not they should. A government is publicizing and creating a for profit public execution.
Who wouldn’t talk to you about this?
Why wouldn’t they?
I actually have no idea what this post is about, somebody enlighten me?
The administration is planning on a public execution live-streamed online. The person being executed is a former Army major and psychiatrist who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas back in 2009.
The condemned is a monster, but this is a test case for more public executions. They’re bringing back public lynchings.
Not a monster. That’s pretending their actions are not human. Dehumanizing criminals sabotages genuine efforts at preventing crime.
Thanks :)
To quote myself:
(EDIT: it’s been brought to my attention that people need their hand held so, what I am referring to here is that MAGA is going to use American military and social media to publicly execute someone. Whoever hosted it will absolutely profit from it and there is no way MAGA isn’t also going to take their cut)
So…. Even with an explanation in the post you still don’t understand it?
What part are you having trouble with??
Well you’re a pleasant jackass. Just gonna block you and move on. Good luck with your PSAs when you’re pissing off the people you’re trying to communicate your message to.
Dude comes here pretending to not know what a post that clearly states what it about- was about. Then gets bent out of shape and blocks me when I pointed it out to them
Some gifts wrap themselves.
Because I didn’t know, and OP didn’t say, here’s the topic
Maybe be less rude
Thanks. As a non-USian who doesn’t follow US domestic news very closely, I also had no idea about the context.
Thank you, had to go this deep to figure out wtf is going on. The OP is being a jackass.
There nothing rude about defending one’s self from people being obnoxious.
It is not the subject that is rude, it is your way of presenting it. If you talk down to people, who are genuinely confused, you appear as a jerk, and will get a negative response. Maybe they could have looked it up, yes, but people also want to interact with each other on a discussion platform, which is one reason making them rather ask, what is going on. If you do not want to interact with them - just do not. Other people will usually answer the questions.
I talk to people the way they talk to me. Go ahead and check the comments. I have had some very nice interactions with people here. It’s just the ones that come in being asses about it because I didn’t custom tailor the post to suit their needs or make it relevant specifically to them.
Better yet… Go look at the rest of lemmy. Does it all appeal to you? No? Do you complain to the author of every post because of this? Probably not. But if you did, would you expect a kind response? I hope not.
We all have our biases, and it colors what we see. So when you see me being an ass, you’re seeing it from the side of people who think they’re owed an explanation of everything, and if it doesn’t make sense to them- they get to shit on it.
I was very clear in what I said as many people here fully understood it. And many who didn’t asked without showing their ass about it and got an answer. The rest can gtfo. I’m not here to validate others.
Dude/Dudette…you’re posting to a sub literally called general on an instance called literally lemmy.world and expect everybody to be on the same page what your barbaric and uncultured government is doing?
And then get angry about it?
Who said I’m angry?? What I see is a bunch of angry kids that read something they don’t understand and attacked me because- apparently the onus is on me to hold their hand through the entire thing.
So I added a description of the point and they still bark at me because their country didn’t get the memo.
Who fucking cares?! lol! Then it’s not for them and they can move on! But no!!! It HAS to be something they can consume!
lol. I think it’s funny. Annoying, but still funny.
Not everyone lives in the hell on earth you call a country and needs to be on top of the news thereof.
Cool beans. By you could have scrolled on, but instead- your entitlement demanded your asshole response so that I get to be the bad guy for defending myself.
Neat!
Blocking your ass.
Dude what the fuck is your problem. Do you just assume that everyone knows the same things that you do. Your edit doesn’t really even add much detail. Still zero idea what this is about.
The US government wants to live stream killing a person. Live streaming is like when you see something as it happens, like on television, but via computer. I hope that explains it well.
Cheers.
I deduced that someone was live streaming an execution but didn’t think it would be the US government. That’s fucked.
Who else would you think it would be? John Livekill?
I watched the first season of Slow Horses recently where a group of terrorists kidnap a kid and plan to livestream executing him. I assumed it was something like that. I really don’t see how this post makes it obvious to assume that it’s being done by the U.S. government 🤷
Do you assume everything written needs to make sense to you? I even provided an explanation for the post and this idiot still said they don’t get it.
The younger generations need to step the the fuck up and quit with the entitled bullshit. The word doesn’t own them shit. If you don’t understand something, look it up. Ask your AI, whatever it is- but stop demanding things be custom tailored to your expectations.
Plenty of people understood exact what I said.
Bro I’m old. But Googling this shit doesn’t tell me anything so I guess I just don’t need to know what it’s about.
Edit: also,
Do you assume everything written needs to make sense to you?
No, but if you make a post online trying to persuade your audience of something, context tends to help…
I gave context kiddo. Look at the bottom of the post. And if you googled this and it didn’t tell you anything, you suck at google.
Consider your hand held:
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=upcoming+public+execution+in+america&pp=1
Your attitude is worse than live streaming an aexecution gg didn’t think it could be done.
LMAO… Okaybuddy. Sorry I didn’t kiss enough ass for you.
…and you’re a piece of shit if you watch it.
I would be if I did. Which is pretty much exactly what I said.
Sorry, I didn’t mean you, the OP. I meant “you” as in anyone who watches it. My apologies for the ambiguity.
Totally cool! I understand. And same, don’t mean to come off aggressive at all. I’m just being attacked for apparently being too vague.
Pretty wild to think you’re not allowed to show a boob on national television but they want you to watch some guy get his face blown off.
It’s been that way for a long time here in the US.
I am astounded that especially Americans seem to be the ones who do not know about this. Even the public broadcaster here put it as a headline on both it’s homepage and it’s news segments, right next to the US showing they have no qualms with people who commit atrocities and instead attacking the people who fight against the people who committed these atrocities. Our newspapers (even the crappy free ones) also all reported on this.
It really shows the true mental state of the US - either so overworked that they can’t engage anymore because of a lack of ressources, so overwhelmed by what is happening that they stop engaging with current events, fully committed to this insanity or a small part of the populace that still cares. There doesn’t seem to be much inbetween anymore
Are YOU stupid enough to watch our TV? Because we aren’t.
It blows my mind how I’m being attacked left and right for even thinking that this might be news elsewhere. How dare me post about things that people just might not have heard about! Didn’t I know that there are other people that exist outside the US and that everything posted should appeal to them??!?
But yeah. Especially here in the states. How could someone NOT have known about this.
Never underestimate the ignorance of others, even among the more highly intelligent and sophisticated people that make up Lemmy.
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George Carlin did a bit about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDO6HV6xTmI Only took 30 years
Oof, a lot of those cheers and hollers in the first half sounded like they genuinely agreed. Wasn’t until he started to get real extreme with it that those reactions got replaced with laughter
Dude was a fucking prophet.
