Comment by ortusdux
9 hours ago
I opened the news and almost threw my phone after reading just the first two headlines - ICC sanctions and televised executions.
9 hours ago
I opened the news and almost threw my phone after reading just the first two headlines - ICC sanctions and televised executions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-livestream-army-execution-f...
Here's the second news thing mentioned for people that also did go "what??" but do not want to spend 5 extra seconds to Google like me.
Next thing is probably setting up a guillotine in front of the White Hose or the planned Arc de Trump.
Nah that is not Cyberpunk Tech enough, and also far too close to visuals and ideas of the working class rebelling against the people in power.
I could imagine something _like_ that happen, but it would be a different kind of spectacle, where it is ensured that it projects ideas that _stabilize_ the current structure.
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Hmm.. although, if they have a good propaganda guy, they might actually do the Guillotine and annex that symbol as an ultimate power move.
I can see that working out and doing double duty.
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Delivery driver showed up early though....
https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/uscp-arrest...
The guillotine is too French, too modern and too humane.
America is run by extremist Christians so eventually it will be death by drowning, stoning or whatever else the Bible recommends.
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Seems like behavior you'd expect from someone who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize though, right?
"Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America."
Only the FIFA Peace Prize.
The Peace Prize that can be purchased with blood money.
They are trying to desensitise the public before moving on to more extreme things.
Only three countries carry out public executions: Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea. I guess there will be four now, with the U.S. joining this "prestigious" group.
Do something about it. Don't just let it happen. Don't say it's too hard or nothing is going to change. Don't let them win by default. Your government is supposed to be by the people, for the people. Remind them of that.
In Serbia, people protested for two years straight, giant protests, marches all over the country, until the government resigned and new elections were called.
Check out a video here: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1jc29fk/breathtakin...
Be more like Serbia. Change doesn't just happen every four years at the ballot box. Politics is always and everywhere.
You underestimate how powerless the American citizen feels.
Yeah and it's by design.
That is exactly how Putinism works, too. Not necessarily by enthusiastic consent, but by feelings of powerlessness, apathy and checking out.
Do something. Go protest. Block some roads. Occupy some buildings. Don't just let things happen. You're an actor in history, not a spectator to it.
This isn't as bad as I expected it to be, but there's two more years to go so we'll see.
surprised by this.. the amount of steam rollering, wrecking balling, and pocket-lining is sad and shocking to me.
It should be sad but not shocking. They deliberately campaigned on causing maximum destruction, grief and chaos, and frequently used the phrase "we're going to make so much money." It was totally transparent and out in the open what the plan was, and people voted for that plan.
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except for all the reposts on social media one cannot avoid?