Submitted 3 weeks ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Is televised executions going to become the new norm?
This is what fascists do. There are no rules anymore, no moral or ethical actions. When there are no consequences for grotesque behavior, it grows, expands, and becomes normalized. Those who are like-minded now have kinship with the demented people in charge.
Because these are petty, weak men desperately trying to appear strong.
Public executions also permitted the state to project its superiority over political opponents.
Nazi Germany utilized public execution by hanging, shooting, and decapitation.
How about Trumps execution? We’d have to wait for Nuremburg 2.0, but it would be worth it.
Because trump and the republicans are down in the polls.
This is standard procedure for trump. Make a horrific mess, then distract people by doings something outrageous.
If gas prices are up, then shoot someone.
Because many people in the US are blood thirsty and love to glorify violence and death. I say this as a person born and raised in the US.
Not too long ago, I was talking to someone about my injuries and issues stemming from a drunk driver. The guy looked me right in the face and told me he believed that the drunk should be put to death for what he did.
I don’t even believe the drunk should die and I’m the one who sustained life altering injuries.
Maybe that murderer enjoyed killing people.
Maybe that secretary of war enjoys the same.
Because it’s a military execution, protocol of which hasn’t really changed.
This explains why the method is firing squad, but I don’t think it explains why it’s being broadcast, does it?
Yes, but because it’s a military execution Hegseth decides and he’s a Nazi scum.
If it’s out in public, then I think it could be broadcast.
It also doesn’t explain why they updated the rules before it happened, which I think would have happened under Obama or Biden
Fascists want public executions to make the population more comfortable with state initiated violence. Iirc it’s part of project 2025
Why? To make you ask that question.
They want you being appalled about what they are doing, so they can go tell their base that you support a Muslim terrorist and murderer. They want to portray you as a deranged sociopath, more concerned about the killer than his victims.
All they have to do is commit an atrocity against a despicable person, and our outrage at the atrocity can be portrayed as treasonous: We are providing aid and comfort to an enemy. Their base gets to be disgusted by us, and driven to support them.
They might have tried, for an execution via a court martial, you need a unanimous verdict of 12 members, while non capital cases only require a large majority.
So maybe they didn’t get the verdict they wanted on those other cases, but this is to set a precedent as much as anything.
It’s just the beginning
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Probably mostly because they are depraved sickos who get off on death, suffering, and ratings. This is a grotesque sport to them.
Secondly because Hassan committed the attacks as a soldier on a US base. Hegseth probably wants to send a message to other soldiers of the consequences of such actions. He’s been doing that since day one in the role.
Thirdly Hassan is a Muslim and grew weary of the horrors inflicted upon predominately Muslim nations by the US military. Can’t have anyone starting to have ethics in the military. Islamophobia runs deep in the US government.
But let’s be real at the end of the day every justification for this will backfire. Potential copycats will watch and see themselves as a future star of the same series. The show of force to deter copycats will only do the opposite. That’s basically been the lesson of every US military engagement since the Korean War but even further to the merciless genocide campaigns against the indigenous folks of North America.
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ya know what’s funny? Deserters, traitors, and war criminals are specifically hanged because dying by gunfire is an honorable death for a soldier.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I did not know that. Makes the whole appalling thing even dumber.
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I really hope you are right. Aside from emboldening other shoppers, which I hope doesn’t happen, the amount of shootings on the us is already appalling.
It would be nice if most people condemn this grotesque display, though.