• NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.mlBanned from community
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    You’re a barbaric nation for many reasons already, this will just be another nail in the coffin.

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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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    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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    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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      And for torturing people. And for supporting genocide. And for bombing children. And for putting people in concentration camps…

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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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    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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      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.

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    It’s a barbaric nation either way. That’s long since been determined. The question is how specifically fucked up is it.

    I mean, look, ICE has been publicly executing people for the last year and change, right? That’s some fucked up shit, and the people in power show no signs of stopping it. That’s barbarism.

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      The people in power have nothing to gain from stopping it. The people who are NOT in power have everything to gain from stopping it- but the cowards choose not to.

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        but the cowards choose not to.

        While there are definitely vast amounts of cowards, do bare in mind that propaganda (i.e. turning on the tv in that country) and isolation (union-busting and other anti-organizational tactics) make average Joe feel like they can’t change anything by themselves.

        Which is true, bust most muricans don’t realize they can achieve quite a bit if they organize.
        Of course they’d have to care about their neighbors and get off their obese individualists asses first…

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    The country was literally built on genocide and slavery. OP, Remove the “if” and replace the comma with a period.

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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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    It just means mask has slipped.

    White phosphorus and cluster bombs are still used by the US.

    Meanwhile the list of fuckery is so long it’s hard to pick a starting point.