• Squirrelknight@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        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.

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    You already are a barbarian nation for still having capital punishment in the first place.

    This new development would just put you a few notches farther away from civilization.

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      Imprisoning Trump and his goons wont make a difference. Treason and mass murder need to be dealt with in a permanent way.

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    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.

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      After 3 years of full fledged US-backed livestreamed genocide it is quite astounding people are upset about an execution being livestreamed

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    the US has streamed several executions already. they just happened to be extrajudicial carried out by police/ICE

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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              With the absolute certainty that they won’t get shown if it could hurt them. And even then they’ll turn them off when they want to do something really bad.

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    We’ve been a barbaric nation for a while. It’s just on full display now. This display of violence changes nothing.

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      The people that I’ve unfortunately talked to that either support or don’t condone it do not care that this is “barbaric”. They condone violence, and they want more of it.

      You cannot shame or reason with these people. American religious conservatism is a cancer and you cannot reason with or shame with a cancer.

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    You are a barbaric nation for not ending the death penalty

    May as well put the brutality on display, will help people realise why it’s wrong

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      What’s the out? The religious conservatives in this country are bloodthirsty and violent and will just embrace this accusation.

      They’ll see this accusation and go “good, we’re not being barbaric enough! Barbarians are strong and might is right!” That is how these people think.

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    The fuckheads in office raided a sitting Democratic rep’s house for immigration papers from three fucking years ago! The brown shirts have thrown legal citizens in concentration camps, they’ve kidnapped people and have done so with zero consequences. They are going to sell tickets to EXECUTE someone on live tv (who I might add is in a wheelchair). We are far passed barbaric.

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    The United States is turning into the very same countries we love to bomb for doing such things.

    You want to know what a Christian Nation looks like? Well, here you go.

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      To be fair the veneer of a country that has been built on genocide (even if not entirely completed) and slavery hasn’t been too thick to begin. I am not throwing stones though, coming from Austria. But at least here more people are aware that the own history hasn’t been so glorious after all.

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      We don’t bomb countries for doing such things, or we’d be bombing Saudi Arabia and Israel. We give military support to countries that do such things, so long as the spice flows, and we bomb countries where the spice doesn’t flow, even if they don’t do those sorts of things.

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        You must not have been paying attention with what’s going on in Iran the last 10 years up till now.

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          Iran is a country where the spice doesn’t flow to us. We are bombing them, not for any human rights issues, but for their oil.