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It's not an assassination. It's an execution. Assassination makes it sound like this guy is some kind of martyr instead of a mass murderer, which he is. That's what he's being executed for. Doesn't make execution a good thing and it's definitely fucked up that they're televising it and using a firing squad, but it's not an assassination.
He is being executed by a state that is a self-proclaimed enemy of Islam. This execution, if it plays out, will be used to radicalize non-state actors, amd incite acts of terror against the US.
The nuances and semantics won't matter, any more than it matters to MAGA that Charlie Kirk's assassin was right-wing.
Hopefully we'll come to our collective senses before then, and just imprison him for life.
remember that live-streaming murder is fine but god beware somebody posts an exposed nipple
A drag queen is somewhere nearby! Quick, distract your children with this family friendly, televized execution by firing squad!
Phew, that was close! Those kids almost got traumatized by seeing something inappropriate!
Or putting a knee down during the anthem
Who the fuck thinks that word has been censored for 15 years? It's only been a few years where that kind of censorship has been common.
Yeah but the last two years have been at least a decade.
Yep, an it was the capitalists under the excuse of protecting children/teenagers/minors.
People shouldn't be censored for mentioning suicide. The way most of the internet handles any mention of it is a bit silly. Like, I don't think sending an automated bunch of links to resources is gonna be helpful when your cry for help was removed and you're back to being alone.
It's fine to talk about suicide.
Won't anyone think of the marketers? Can you imagine having your brand name sullied in an internet meme just because someone dies? It's unthinkable!
God forbid human communication be human centric. We have to protect the brand integrity of the companies waging war against our insecurities. Better to send some links, shift liability, and delete the offensive posts.
Not to mention how anti-intellectualism is encouraged and fighting amongst each other is ignored. But if you say something politically motivated or hurtful to big tech's interests, now that's a problem.
I mean I just got accused of being a 'rage bait' bot on another platform for expressing a pretty reasonable opinion.
Fuck 'em
I think the main reason its happening at all is because tiktok shadow banned for it, and youtube did too. If everyone hears their favorite influencer saying "Sewer Slide" or "unalive" eventually thats just the word for it.
I dont think anyone except those desiging platforms care at all, and they onky care because advertisers
People shouldn't be censored for ~~a lot of things~~ anything. Can we agree to stop playing the turn a blind eye to reality game? The older I get the more I get sick and tired of that shit. My comment got auto modded because I wrote that someone called me a fg-t in public. Great success?
It helps to take pride in speaking your mind in the way you feel comfortable with. If you get banned or get backlash or whatever, fuck it. I agree that self-censoring has become way too extreme and tbh I blame the shitty corporations who punished people for going against their arbitrary terms and narratives, and bowing down to them.
Edit: I want to make it clear I'm not talking about hate speech, etc. I just mean not being a slave to what others think of you. And allowing yourself to get backlash or banned or whatever here and there. Stand on your principles, as long as you aren't an objective piece of human garbage.
I can see that. I would rather see people for who they really are.
Like you state, this cookie cutter Disney version of TV shows really postures that notion. Okay, maybe I did have a wide variety of friends like the shows are ironically but it wasn't like a TV show. I mentioned this in a few posts now but it's like my friend that was Asian had her car keyed with--racial term for an Asian person--and does me censoring really do anything? My friend from Lebanon, his mom made the best food, had death threats after 9/11, with all the terminology that came with that. One of my friends got picked on and they called vinegar with a drawn out pronunciation and well of course they didn't get in trouble.
Worse yet, I had students that would say knee-growth, which was odd to hear because a coworker had cancer in his knee--which I didn't think was possible. And well that degraded to n-wah as in n-word. So we're back in full circle. And I mean I had to read aloud, huckleberry finn, so n-word city before the edited version. At at the end of the day, are we accomplishing anything by saying n-word, f-word, r-word?
America is a fucking cluster fuck.
Somehow my brain interpreted "fucking clusterfuck" as something related to fried chicken. My brain thought "cluck," the sound a chicken makes. It is fun to live in my brain sometimes.
Ah you're thinking of a fustercluck
Now that reminds me of Fuddruckers (does that restaurant still exist?) and I nominate FUSTERCLUCK as name of a new family-friendly, sit-down, FRIED CHICKEN restaurant. 🐔 🍗
Holy fuck, they are live broadcasting an execution. That is literally a George Carlin skit.
And the guy is in a wheelchair too. It's grotesque.
Carlin was our prophet! I miss him so much.
I've found more faith in his words than any religious figure. He wasn't a prophet so much as a historian of how stupid and fucked up humanity is.
Content mods ONLY care about advertiser revenue and will bend over for every dollar. If hosting this gets clicks they'll do it. This isn't the face they'll make.
Recently became aware of advertising companies restricting their ads from being shown next to artwork of two characters kissing, it's insane. Freedom on the internet is now threatened by ad agencies. They are actively monitoring peoples artwork for this...
I'm sorry, what?
Trump is going to livestream a murder by firing squad, because that's what the dictators he desperately wants approval from do.
These “ automated mods” being used by Reddit, Threads, among the many other social media forums have basically ruined their own intended purpose of allowing Free Speech for the masses! Basically useless overmoderated garbage, while posting murder, suicides, hate and death on their sites and expecting us to stay political correct! HYPOCRITES!
Do the stations have to broadcast it? Can’t they just say ‘we think it is reprehensible to turn an execution into a public spectacle’?
Yes, but the people running the FCC are petty and will punish them for it. Still, it's an obvious PR win to take a morale stand over this.
No. They will have an open and shut case under the first amendment to choose not to broadcast. We still largely have the freedom of speech in this country, such as it is.
Specifically freedom from compulsory speech, in this case. The freedom to not be forced to say something has a much better track record than the freedom to say what you want.
I wonder how many will actually show any spine, though. Google has so far been very accommodating to Trump with the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, so I fear YouTube will stream it.
We'd really like it if all of your affiliate stations would broadcast this. It would be a shame if your license renewal got held up in review.
That's why I only watch assassination vids on watchpeopledie, where it belongs.