october 8 ack
It's not just that they're going to do a public execution. It's that they're going to do a public execution and livestream it.
This is 100% real. If you want to read the full piece in the New York Times (gift link, you're welcome) go ahead, but here's the white meat:
Pentagon officials said on Thursday that the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting would be executed in public, a practice that ended in the United States nearly a century ago and is most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan.
Also:
The Pentagon said in a statement that the military execution, scheduled for Dec. 3, would also be broadcast via livestream. Such a broadcast has little precedent, and releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State.
Also:
The Army has said the public execution of Major Hasan will be conducted by firing squad at Fort Hood, the site of the shooting. If carried out, it would be a first in modern American history.
There are other paragraphs I want to show you but I want to show you more mercy than anyone in American government seems interested in showing anyone, anywhere. America is beyond parody, and beyond the pale. It also seems like such a bummer.
Like, what kind of joke can I even write about this? There's nothing there. There's nowhere to go. There used to be a thin strip of opportunity wherein someone could find an inch of daylight and a scintilla of levity. Today that doesn't exist. They took that from us. They took that from meeeeeeee.
On Threads today, a writer I follow posted this:
Is anyone else just becoming, like, exceptionally disturbed by the level of depravity and violence we’re witnessing? It’s just getting so weird and gross.
I replied like this:
It’s been too much for me for a long time. It’s all so fucking insane.
An hour later, she replied to her own post with this:
Shutting down comments from people I don’t know because I don’t have the mental energy for people to tell me I obviously wasn’t paying attention before or whatever. Shit is accelerating and it’s disgusting and I’m not engaging with the cynical weirdos who feel a need to tell me that they’ve actually been disgusted since the day they were born.
Something has been broken in so, so many people. I don't know what it is, but I know how it got there. I don't know what it is but I know that somehow the thing that they are sick with makes everything backwards. Good is bad and bad is good and lies are truth and truths are lies. I don't know what life is like after you let yourself get contaminated but I can't imagine it's good. Still, they won't get me. I know Ricky Roma. I know that hell exists on earth. I know that I won't live in it. Rather I will live in the place where Austin Reaves rocks smittys, Trae Young plays for the visiting team at MSG, and people find joy and solace in each other. Don't believe me? You should. I'll be waiting for you all the end of the world, coming soon to a theatre near you.
🌲 gonna
🌼 go
🌱 touch Ny
🌳 grass Quil
🌷 now
Be good to yourself.
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