But calling it brutal is a stretch. What the Zetas do to their victims, is brutal. Putting a Goodyear around your neck and having it lit on fire while you are still wearing it is brutal. What happened to James Byrd Jr was brutal. What happened to Matthew Shepard was brutal.

This is someone dying, but far from brutal.

Fuck Charlie Kirk.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've seen too much traumatic death and a fair number of arterial bleeds in person, plus all the shit I've seen online. Even though I'm fully i-do about the shooting itself, the video bewildered me and made me warn others against because it's one of those moments where you suddenly realise how much blood is in a person. I've never seen someone bleed out like that where it's five seconds until unconsciousness at most. It isn't brutal in the sense that I want to extend empathy toward him, it's just physiological body horror seeing what blood pressure really means. It's like a Kurosawa film.

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

It was somewhere between Tarantino and an unfortunate incident involving a jelly donut, but the jelly is actually white supremacist juice so it loops back around to not being that unfortunate, provided you aren't one of the poor venue workers on the cleanup crew

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago

I saw more brutal shit from Syria within the last few months, this was almost surgical (minus the blood spurt)

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

I remember that incident a while ago where the news reporter lady and her camera man got shot while recording. You don't even see her get shot, but the sounds she made... I regret watching the video, and it was much much worse than this.