And I'd agree - so wouldn't it make sense to provide context to the world, considering you provided the information to me - and probably others...

Because I didn't know, and OP didn't say, here's the topic

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/pentagon-says-firing-squad-execution-of-fort-hood-shooter-will-be-livestreamed

Maybe be less rude

There nothing rude about defending one’s self from people being obnoxious.

Because sooner or later. It’s going to reach everyone. Better to get ahead of it- provide perspective, and hope it’s taken seriously than to ignore it and hope for the best.

Fair enough. I can see that. The point remains however.

American mind can't comprend the world is bigger than the anglosphere

Foreign mind can’t comprehend that not everything is meant for their consumption.

Thanks. As a non-USian who doesn't follow US domestic news very closely, I also had no idea about the context.

I'm aware of it, mostly because of my doomscrolling of Fediverse but I also saw a Brazilian news outlet (G1 Globo) publishing a news article about it. So I can guarantee you; no, we "the rest of the world" didn't skip that one.In fact, personally, I'm far from merely aware of the upcoming USian "Faces of Death 2026 Remake" as a Brazilian; it's one of the things actively weighing currently in my head in ways that, simultaneously with all the ongoing shitshow I'm watching going on in this demiurgic world and around me, are further desensitizing me regarding my own... fate.Oh, it goes without saying, no, I'm not going to watch the awful upcoming live assassination.!general@lemmy.world

You posted this on !general@lemmy.world. And you have the gall to talk down to people asking what it is about.

Ahh. Okay… so it’s cool to bag on America. But everything else is off limits. Don’t just not like being excluded? Does everything HAVE to appeal to you?

Blocked.

Goddamn thing just as worse as a livestreamed DAESH execution.

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.

Risky move, but could be worth it. Though I don’t have a dog and my cat doesn’t deserve to see that MAGA bullshit.

Or you could stream to your totally not possessed or evil antique dolls collection. The point is stream when you are demonstrably not.home to mess with their numbers and charge backs to meas with revenue.

Thanks for the recommendation, it's queued in my watchlist.

Anyone tempted to watch this atrocity they are planning would be a lot better off watching anime instead. At least the emotional damage you take from those is something you can learn from without lifelong consequences.

It is not the subject that is rude, it is your way of presenting it. If you talk down to people, who are genuinely confused, you appear as a jerk, and will get a negative response. Maybe they could have looked it up, yes, but people also want to interact with each other on a discussion platform, which is one reason making them rather ask, what is going on. If you do not want to interact with them - just do not. Other people will usually answer the questions.

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

I talk to people the way they talk to me. Go ahead and check the comments. I have had some very nice interactions with people here. It’s just the ones that come in being asses about it because I didn’t custom tailor the post to suit their needs or make it relevant specifically to them.

Better yet… Go look at the rest of lemmy. Does it all appeal to you? No? Do you complain to the author of every post because of this? Probably not. But if you did, would you expect a kind response? I hope not.

We all have our biases, and it colors what we see. So when you see me being an ass, you’re seeing it from the side of people who think they’re owed an explanation of everything, and if it doesn’t make sense to them- they get to shit on it.

I was very clear in what I said as many people here fully understood it. And many who didn’t asked without showing their ass about it and got an answer. The rest can gtfo. I’m not here to validate others.

It blows my mind how I’m being attacked left and right for even thinking that this might be news elsewhere. How dare me post about things that people just might not have heard about! Didn’t I know that there are other people that exist outside the US and that everything posted should appeal to them??!?

But yeah. Especially here in the states. How could someone NOT have known about this.

Are you okay? Like, genuinely, is everything alright? I understand it gets frustrating, and lemmy is partly full of jerks, too, but the starter of this specific discussion chain just looks to have asked very casually, what is going on. Your reaction seems very aggressive from this outside perspective. Are people often harassing you here?

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

You’re welcome. Always glad to be of assistance.

I don't think it's going to be pay-per-view, so I don't see how there would be an option for a charge back.

Advertisers will pay by the stream, regardless of whether anyone is actually watching.

I'm not convinced that advertising will be allowed, at least not this first time. If enough people watch, it could become a regular spectacle, and then it could eventually be monetized in that way.

I think that a streaming service or a social media platform will do it simply "for the exposure" to get people to sign up for their service.

Oh, fuck. It's going to be a Truth Social exclusive, isn't it?

Watchpeopledie is still around.

Nidal Malik Hasan explicitly wants to be martyred. I'll be tuning in to watch specifically to honor that.

Everyone who watches is going to witness a man in a wheelchair get shot to death by several US soldiers as he sits there and makes no attempt to fight back or flee. This event will radicalize people, and will be an important part of US- if not world- history

Oof, a lot of those cheers and hollers in the first half sounded like they genuinely agreed. Wasn't until he started to get real extreme with it that those reactions got replaced with laughter

Not everyone lives in the hell on earth you call a country and needs to be on top of the news thereof.

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.

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.

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

(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."

Believe it or not, complaining about "handholding" people who just haven't looked at the news yet today and happened to stumble across your post first, sounds a lot like being an asshole.

it's the two minutes hate.

Lmao this is so fucking spot on

Dude/Dudette...you're posting to a sub literally called general on an instance called literally lemmy.world and expect everybody to be on the same page what your barbaric and uncultured government is doing?

And then get angry about it?

You're going to honor someone who murdered people. Got it. Enjoy being a shitty person. Blocking you now.

Do you think he targeted random people like any old mass shooter? He target current and aspiring fascists, murderers, and war criminals. What he did was an act of retaliation in a war that the US started

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

It should have been clear to anyone who reads the news without the Edit. And yes, it is sort of annoying that really extreme changes are going on in society and some people are that ignorant and I get why OP was annoyed. On behalf of OP, sorry OP's phrasing wasn't perfect???

Never underestimate the ignorance of others, even among the more highly intelligent and sophisticated people that make up Lemmy.

Why wouldn't they?

This is a good analogy. I didn’t think about that before. It really is “direct your hate here and not against your oppressors” in public.

I think we should have some compassion for OP who is already angry because of the topic. OP clearly thinks this practice of executing people publicly is very evil and is already mad and so that's impacting all the responses. What about also thanking OP for posting this difficult topic? OP, thanks for posting this. I don't know if I agree with you entirely, but I might, however it's something important to talk about.

I also think about this in the context of a war. And although Christian Nationalism and Islamic Extremism are both terrifying to me, and although the attacker slated to die may or may not have been an extremist, the fact is that there is not a single country out there that is primarily Muslim (50%+) and also has any sort of LGBTQ+ rights.

I'm not saying it justifies this, but I also think this occurs in the context of women in some Islamic countries still being unable to learn things like math and reading. You may wonder, well, why does that mean Christian nationalism and fascism and human rights violations are okay?

And if you think that, that public executions are evil and horrible, then I get that. It's just hard for me to care about someone who was clearly a killer with training and intent when there are LGBT+ people who can't get married and women who can't learn math still and the "unfair war" he was mad about had originally allowed women to learn and get an education. I'm sure war crimes occurred and I'm sure it was horribly managed. And now look: Biden withdrew and now the Taliban doesn't even allow women to add numbers together.

That is the context of these religious maniacs and this situation and this execution. And I don't know what this attacker's views were, if he was just upset about war crimes or if he supported radical Islam. But, what is the appropriate response to radical Islam that, if completely effectuated, would mean women can't learn to read or do math?

I don't want to watch the execution because I believe in human rights for prisoners and this moves the needle in a bad way.

I also highly doubt it will be televised with ad space. I don't think publicly traded companies would want to be associated with this. There is a ton of cruelty and evil in society, including toward the poor and unhoused, but I don't think corporate America is going to touch this with a 10 foot pole. I'd be shocked if I was wrong, and if I am wrong, I'll be terrified and I would probably leave the country out of fear of what happens next.

I just think it's important to remember that there is still a war with radical Islamic jihadism and it's not something that can necessarily be humane. This is also someone who voluntarily signed up for the military. Also death by firing squad with multiple bullets will probably be somewhat quick and not that painful. I agree with you and you're right, but it's also so hard to care when this is a war, and some women aren't allowed to add numbers.

It's also possible I am so angry that some women aren't allowed to read and learn math that I am not looking at this situation clearly and it's more horrible than I realize.

Somwonw sings the national anthem in tge background and drags out the braaaaaaaaaave so americans get a boner

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

Thank you, had to go this deep to figure out wtf is going on. The OP is being a jackass.

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

the unfortunate part is the only people who are going to participate are the people who really don't need to participate.