I have no words for this my friends. Not even “what the fuck” can fully encapsulate my level of disbelief.
Tonight on the violence network!
It’s like we ended up with some sort of horrid crossover between 1984 and Idiocracy.
Joe got his bar code tattoo accidentally scanned by a camera on the road when he was in Frito’s car. Seconds later that car shut down and was lit up by cops with machine guns.
If there is a big audience, think of the advertising rights and the money to be made. I imagine a run on death row to cash in. What a barbaric bunch of clowns.
Meanwhile people say “unalive” instead of “kill” on social media to appeal to advertisers
One of the worst things about fascism, even among the many putrid things about it, is the public display of cruelty and dominance over the regime’s named enemies.
Among the cruel, power is measured by the ability to inflict suffering, so the regime must show its strength by increasingly extreme public displays of punishment of anyone who threatens their power, whether in fact or in their imagination.
It breaks my heart that we’ve come to this. This in particular, but everything that’s happened in the last ten years that led up to this, and everything that happened and didn’t happen before Trump and Co. that brought us to the place where someone like them could seize power. It breaks my heart, and it breaks my heart that I am all but numb to it. By right I should be stunned and horrorstruck by my government slaughtering a human being for spectacle. I can feel the feeling, deep and abstractly, but not as I should feel it. I’m used to the horrors, or my capacity to feel horror has been intentionally and methodically overwhelmed. I have to work to feel a fraction of it, and the fact that that numbness is engineered by the Russell Voughts of the world is yet another horror on the pile.
At this point I’m grimly determined to see the end of this horrorshow or die trying, but holy fuck does it suck being in the middle of it. Y’all, if your government is corrupted by the influence of the ultra wealthy and the demonization of the helpless, please do yourselves a favor and nip that shit in the bud. I wish I had practical advice on how, but clearly we in the US were not able to stop this before it metastasized. It keeps getting worse long after you think it can’t get any worse. I don’t think the US has seen the worst of it yet.
There was a time in my life where I thought we had figured this one out. Maybe believing it’s figured out is part of the problem. I really didn’t think it could possibly come to this. If I had, I think I would have been more proactive about it :(
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My first response is to do it to show how brutal and terrible it is to wake people up. Then, I remember how many people who tie their identities to not waking up and how this would normalize murder for them.
I remember watching this interview with a journalist who bore witness to an execution by firing squad, and it felt a lot like he was using that interview to finally talk about what he saw and maybe come to terms with it. He was clearly very shaken by everything. Then I read the comments under the video and lost some faith in humanity.
So we’re just pulling ideas directly from dystopias now?
More like if 14th century had twitch.
Modern day version of a time honored southern tradition.
Everybody would gather round and essentially have a public celebration, a holiday when it was time to add another n[]gg[]r to another tree. Sometimes they’d even hack apart the body to keep bits as souveniers.
This is also a thing done in Starship Troopers. One of the TV/broadcast segments mentions live executions of traitors and deserters on channel blah, check your local station for airing times.
In case you needed any further proof that … MAGA is literally a death cult, well there ya go.
Ravenous, vicious, senseless evil.
If only hell actually existed.
For some stupid reason I keep thinking there’s a bottom to hit with these people…
Think this is proven to increase violence because people get used to cruelty
Increased violence is already on their agenda.
This is so antithetical. This is exactly what the shooter wants. Its only going to make him a martyr.
I miss two hours ago, when I thought this was a joke.
Are they going to invite North Korea’s leader for the after-party?
