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Even though this guy is a certified hog the fact it only delayed the game for 10 minutes while everyone in the crowd watched a guy die in front of them makes me feel sad anyway. Life and death reduced to a minor inconvenience
he was treated with the gravity he deserved
Yea if you take a step back and strip it of the military context it's absolutely horrific that someone died in front of thousands of people and they still went forward with the game. So little value put on human life even in the face of such a public death.
But he was a troop and it was a troop football game so
They earnestly wanted to livestream shooting a defenseless man in a wheelchair for entertainment. They still want to shoot him btw, just without a camera rolling.
This shit's nothing in comparison.
That's what I mean, if this was a case of Joe Shmo Civilian dying during the opening ceremonies of a random football game (even though the average football game is already a militarized propaganda event but ignore that for now) it would be horrifying to hear the game went ahead with barely a delay, but it was a member of the military eating shit and dying before the Most Military Football Game they hold so it just ends up being yet another perfect encapsulation of america
Cost benefit analysis said the game going forward was more important than a human life.
I can't think of a more honestly USian decision.
hey he (supposedly) didn't know the guy was in a wheelchair and only stopped with the livestream because it would ruin the spectacle. i don't see a firing squad as any worse than other methods of execution (and it's preferable to some for the recipient) the problem is that it's the united states doing it.
An established state does not have any valid reasons to execute defenseless people anyways.
i'm cool with the CEOs of companies who poison baby formula getting killed by the state. Hell, if the US decided to execute the Sackler family i wouldn't get out of bed over it.
This says a lot about our society (legitimately).
It's not fully American until his widow gets denied death benefits.
"Your husband's death was not service related"
hope she sues and some football coach has to sit in front of a judge and claim that football games are war
imo, it's a calculated decision by leadership. the purpose of the spectacle is to distract and deflect examination of leadership. to have this happen within the focal point of the spectacle invites examination of leadership, so it must be disregarded and the show must go on.
they don't even have the benefit of it being a moment hijacked by "terrorists" where they can create an enemy. it's just literally "this is how incompetent the people in power are. we will sacrifice our devotees for less than nothing." the longer the moment lasts the more dangerous it is.