"Don't watch the snuff film!"

Well, okay. I wasn't. But now I'm still not.

This is literally turning into Monday Night Rehabilitation from Idiocracy.

This whole cabinet is like a less funny version of that movie.

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

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.

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.

I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about.

I actually have no idea what this post is about, somebody enlighten me?

it's the two minutes hate.

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?

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

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.

...and you're a piece of shit if you watch it.

Gladiator fights at 8 on channel 6.

George Carlin did a bit about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDO6HV6xTmI Only took 30 years

Only the sick moronic fucks who support MAGA will watch it.

That's not even the biggest issue here.. The point seems to be more normalising murdering American citizens who are "traitors"..

(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)

"How come people live different lives than mine and don't immediately get all my references? Could I be out of touch severely stunted in imaginative capacity? No, it's the others who are dumb."

To be fair, plenty of live assassinations in the US by ICE have already been streamed. This will seem timid by comparison. Having said that, don't worry, won't watch, but I don't think it's about the amount of people watching either. It's about the message, it's about sending your political opponents links to a public execution.

The scary part is how much of the world is heading in this direction now.

This is close to what a friend of mine witnessed 30 years ago in Nigeria. Criminals were punished in the "War Against Indiscipline". Televised determents, such as beatings and amputations the right hand for stealing. The first man to suffer this was Bube Jangebe - for stealing a cow. This is many steps back to Medieval times. Next will be the rack.

Will they put the American flag on the background full DAESH style?

Truly the perversion of our society in real time. Some people are GIDDY about it

I would kinda like a list of anyone that buys advertising for the broadcast.

They are actually doing this? Fucking hell, I joked about it recently because of how fucking absurd the idea is.

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.

This isn't hyperbole, American "justice" has done exactly, to minors no less!

two judges at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, were exposed for receiving kickbacks in return for harsh adjudications on juvenile deliquents to increase occupancy at a private prison operated by PA Child Care.

Yes bro we know, the people who will watch it want them to do more.

Goddamn thing just as worse as a livestreamed DAESH execution.

People that have never seen death will learn how to earn PTSD. I've seen enough death, you can't unsee it and what makes it worse is when you find out your friends died, you start to imagine how they died and you have all these mental images.

It's a cartoon/anime but 86 lightly touches that subject, probably why it was banned/censored until people complained.

Oh im not watching.

Im just eagerly hoping for a hilarious headline about them doing an about face and executing the cancerous pigs that set this up to begin with.

If it does get aired, The Purge will become a game show.

I guarantee you that tens of millions will be watching it anyways

Long live humanity

I've seen many executions by the American government. Women and children too.

I'm not interested in this one. Hadn't heard about it.

Yet if any major network actually carries that, we need to know

YouTube needs to know we’re not ok

I can only imagine the little MAGAts are gonna taste blood and are gonna want to have people executed for less and less. Immigrants, people with different political views / opinions, the lady that looked at them funny in the grocery store, etc.

It's a step toward the rehabilitation via monster trucks the tribe would praise too.

Just look away. Human life is precious, even though it's treated cheaply by powerful thugs. If you view that shit it will stick with you and affect you for the rest of your life.

Well, that’s not very fair! I just watched a tiger maul a guy and I’m not to keen on that happening again! Although it probably will… Because that’s something like the second time in 10 years :P

Jokes aside, I agree. Fuck Kegsbreath and the entire republicunt party! These people are fucked in the head.

This is a shit comment so feel free to skip, but it loosely reminds me of this: https://lemmy.ml/post/42938261

Or all of us stream it to your dogs while you are work and bulk dispute/ charge back and have them feel the wrath of payment processors everywhere.

Do not let them monetize executions.

No worries, it was always gonna get pirated.

There won’t be one. This is just a distraction from the fact that loser Pete is losing bases left right and center.

Honestly, I doubt it will happen. No particular reason why, just a gut feeling

It's going to be another thing that when I hear somebody partook in it I can clear them off of my give a fuck list forever.

If someone asks me if I watched it and then proceeds to tell me that they did, I'll just walk away. I have no time for anyone who would willingly watch a murder.

Whoever hosted it will absolutist from it

Your edit ____ a word.

guess you never heard of sites like ogrish.com?"

Assassination? Eh. This is the execution of a murderer.
Televising it is gross and very ISIS of them, but the execution of a murderer by firing squad... I'm not upset by that.

Maybe assassination is the correct term, since this administration is definitely politicizing it

I'm gonna watch it tbh.

If you want to watch snuff films, you can see more gruesome and gory stuff on Telegram or Reddit.. and this already for decades now.

Watch some of the stuff coming out of Yemen or Ukraine for the past 6 years. Makes a prison execution look like a barney video.

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NO.

Every single Trump supporter needs to watch this. Every fucking fence-sitter needs to watch this. Every apologist needs to watch this. Every person who thinks Trump is the only problem and things will go back to normal after he's gone needs to watch this. Everyone who still denies the US is an authoritarian empire needs to watch this.

They need to watch it to drive home that the imaginary version of America in their heads DOES NOT FUCKING EXIST. The US is an authoritarian corporatocracy where the dollar is god and the rich take pleasure in the misery and pain of everyone else. Every single fucking American needs to know they are part of the evil empire. Every single American needs to know that the rest of the world sees them as the bad guys, and this is why they need to watch it.

Edit: The downvoters really just don't get it. Americans like to pretend that they are the greatest country in the world. They tell themselves that lie constantly. I worked there for years and I had to leave to escape the toxicity. If no one holds a mirror up to their evil depravity, they will never see themselves for what they are. A bloated, evil corrupt empire. There is a reson the people who lived near Auschwitz (and other towns) were forced marched through the camps after the war ended, so they could see the sheer evils they pretended like they didn't know about.

Fuck that. Make the Americans see the evil perpetuated in their names.

I'm okay with mass murderers being executed; there's no question of his guilt.

I do think that it should be pay-per-view, with the earnings going directly to the victims and their families.

There's much worse on video available everywhere, just awful torture and rape and murders from all of our various wars.

We've all seen all of the horror that we want and probably more; this is PG material, really, it wouldn't even qualify for an R rating.

Who are they executing? Can we 🏴‍☠️ it? We were all excited about Charlie Kirks death. Which was pretty fucked up to watch, while he's responding to a question he gets shot in the neck.

1 - I. Don't. Fucking. Care.

2 - You're promoting it.

Love that you're seeing people say they don't know about it here.

Well no shit. Look at what you people are actually doing here. You took the worst parts of reddit and recreated it. Reddit succeeded with lack of moderation and more community based solutions. You know, because it was lefty at the start. Upvotes and downvotes were used. Mods didn't have much power. There wasn't corporate or political interest to build our silo'd echo chambers that can be used to control information yet. Then they came and couldn't have sub reddits intermixing information and people freely so they started to push reddit to give moderators more power while taking over mod positions. In the end you had Tony the Tiger moderating r/all which became daily cereal recommendations. You guys took that end fucking corporate authoritarian structure and recreated it and are surprised that people here are uninformed? Everything was way more alive when different content mixed and comments on post contain multiple crazy rabbit holes that could never exist here since some moderator would get butt hurt that people were speaking freely like some middle manager of the internet.

Also why the hell does lemmy have any kind of voting system. Isn't it all blindly trusted to faceless moderators to tell us what information we may and may not access while they built the most useless hug boxes imaginable. Go look at the logs for bans. The moderators are insane here. How the hell did we all come to a point in our life that the worst parts of being online became our safe spaces.

I'm watching it. Who gives a shit anymore. Fascists are in charge and the opposition are the dumbest assholes possible. It's the worst. You people suck.

I support public executions. Keeping them behind closed doors only protects capital punishment supporters and prison officials.

Americans should look at what's done in their name.