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 :(

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=khW8GrUW8EI

Are they going to invite North Korea's leader for the after-party?

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 have no words for this my friends. Not even "what the fuck" can fully encapsulate my level of disbelief.

The guy was paralyzed from the waist down. They are going to shot up a guy in a wheelchair. The optics alone. Jfc.

What streaming platform has a TOS that allows this?

For some stupid reason I keep thinking there's a bottom to hit with these people...

This is so antithetical. This is exactly what the shooter wants. Its only going to make him a martyr.

And unsurprisingly it's indeed real

So we're just pulling ideas directly from dystopias now?

I miss two hours ago, when I thought this was a joke.

I guess the administration is at least listening to someone with a couple braincells (despite those cells being defective). When the people are poor and hungry, you must give them a circus. Public executions are one of the original forms of pacifying entertainment for the masses. This will majorly backfire tho