Widely covered in America. The rest of the world probably skipped that one.

So you're the only one who can safely make assumptions on behalf of others? Ok, noted.

Because they're perpetually 12 and think it's "cool"

It's also about making more people complicit in the regime's crimes.

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

Long live humanity

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.

Are you not entertained?

Ice both seem someone die, and have had two best friends of over 30 years die. It sucks.

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

People are stupid, thats why I lost hope in any real fight against this

What assumptions have I made?

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

Unless Reuters, BBC, and the Associated Press are secluded to the US only, its world news.

It’s all good. I’m on voyager as well.

I would be if I did. Which is pretty much exactly what I said.

To quote myself:

(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)

So…. Even with an explanation in the post you still don’t understand it?

What part are you having trouble with??

And for those of us who don't have our antenna/cable connected, and live in Australia.... or anywhere else in the world....?

Context does help when you're posting on a website the world has access to

I doubt it will actually be streamed. JD Vance was hedging about it today, some religious leaders have come out against it.

Well you're a pleasant jackass. Just gonna block you and move on. Good luck with your PSAs when you're pissing off the people you're trying to communicate your message to.

I agree, it's about continuing to shift the US away from a democracy into an authoritarian regime. It's a message for the opposition when they begin to steal the midterms.

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.

Dude comes here pretending to not know what a post that clearly states what it about- was about. Then gets bent out of shape and blocks me when I pointed it out to them

Some gifts wrap themselves.

Then I guess it really wasn’t meant for them to begin with and it’s okay if they just scroll past it.

A significant part of Lemmy is very US centric and that’s why it’s hard to find anything interesting.

Reuters and BBC have news about it, but it’s not top news. You need to scroll a bit and keep your eyes open or you’ll miss it.

Oh. Well then please accept my apologies for posting about something that so many people are unaware of. I’ll get and keep the entire population of lemmy’s interests in mind before I think to post about something that concerns me.

Sorry to hear that. It does suck, you'll always remember it. For me one of my friends died, and we both share the same birthday, irony. So I don't celebrate my birthday anymore, I take it as a day to remember those who I've lost.

Ugh… man that’s rough. So very sorry. Definitely know those feels. And you’d think it would get better. But now my memories hurt.

So it's alright with you if someone from another country stumbles across a link or advertisement for the live execution and pays to see it?
As long as they're not american....

I’d prefer no one watch it. Regardless of where they’re from.

Thanks friend. It's one of those things that racks your mind. Changes your perspective on things.

Yes it does.

Pete Hegseth is live-streaming a military execution soon.

Sorry, I didn’t mean you, the OP. I meant “you” as in anyone who watches it. My apologies for the ambiguity.

Bro I live in America and your vague-ass post is the first I've heard of this. I guess I live under a rock, idk, but you don't have to act like an asshole to people who have no idea what you're talking about.

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

I’m not acting like an asshike. I’m just tired of hiding peoples hands and guiding them to a point. For fucks sake. If they don’t know what’s happening or what the pair is about, they can move on. I don’t go making fun of people and being an asshole to others when they pair shit I don’t understand.

Totally cool! I understand. And same, don’t mean to come off aggressive at all. I’m just being attacked for apparently being too vague.

I am so far as to boycott any service which streams this. Even if it gets unpleasant.

This is the way!

I have not.

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

2 - You're promoting it.

1. You do or you wouldn’t have responded.

well, such places were popular clearinghouses for that kind of content. gore was the order of the day. ogrish, faces of death, back in the 90s during the internet wild west era, those things were hugely popular. the chechnyan rebel and isis( beheadings were normalized back then

Eww. Glad I don’t know about that. I can’t imagine.

It's jus amusing watching this drama from the sidelines. It's like with Dan Browns "The DaVinci Code" - Angry stupids are promoting the shit out of it.

Post this on YouTube, Facebook, BlueSky, Instagram, TikTok, X, and everywhere else so the algos have a good time spreading the event further. The more views the better... Right?

As long as you think you’re making sense- that’s what really matters, right?

Whatever

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.

Most people across the world, when following news, don't check Reuters, BBC and AP. They're all in English and pay little attention to more narrow national news outside US/UK.