We're well past the point of political violence being normal.

There's a fascist patamilitary force murdering and kidnapping. They're systematically denying safe food and medical care which has resulted in many deaths. The first time round they were literally seperating kids from their parents and putting the kids in cages.

That's all political violence that's happening in the open.

Have you not turned on the news in 10 years?

Political violence has been normalized for a pretty good amount of time now.

The US has been having a pretty good amount of... violent Nazi/Christian Theocrat/White Supremacist public intimidation marches... President incited an insurrection... public brawls when bigots try to assault pride events... and that was all during Trump's first term.

I think like at least 5 people have now attempted to assasinate Trump, probably more than that...

Kirk got popped... etc etc.

Make Nazis scared again!

People are being killed now because Flock read their license plate wrong. The violence has always been here, it is just the state and large corporations that has been doing it

Don't be torn. Neither of them care for you or your society. You can only get so far with kindness and pacifism.

Yeah, I think it's a dangerous precedent to set for a county commissioner to openly call for public execution.

I think that should be on the table for the worst offenders, like trump and most of his cabinet, musk, thiel, etc.; But it's for the courts to decide whether their actions amount to treason and what the sentence should be. That power doesn't belong in the executive branch, not beyond appointed special counsel to investigate wrongdoing to bring it before a grand jury.

That being said, this commissioner literally said he wants to "make america great again" so clearly he drank the trump koolaid and is only upset about this because it's blowing up in his face enough for the constituents he cares about to raise a fuss.

That definitely is not a good reason to call for executions.

I'm not saying the Flock CEO hasn't committed what amounts to treason, but again, that's for the courts to decide. The US government let him do it all for this long, so it's not like he was subverting them or anything. This smells like making him a patsy to avoid accountability for allowing it to happen in the first place.

Also, it's not like killing off the CEO will fix the problem. They'll just replace him and continue on with business as usual. What needs to happen is Flock as a company needs to be dissolved, the shareholders held liable for damages, the cameras removed and destroyed, and their data centers and other properties, hardware, infrastructure, etc., all need to be liquidated, databases wiped, drives destroyed, etc. etc. etc.

Executing the CEO achieves none of that. All it does is normalize state-sponsored violence.

Tennessee is a stunning state. The politicians in it though...

Yep.

As best I can tell, .world policy is that you're only allowed to advocate for death if someone writes a news article about it, and then you post that article.

And?

Ah ok, because my other comment was moderated, it was saying that a hanging can be done properly such that it instantly snaps the neck, severs the spinal cord.

... and then my original comment also suggested that it would be a gosh darned shame if the hanging was not done properly.

Lets see if this comment remains unmoderated, and we can thus determine that .world only allows for descriptions of execution methods that are instant and non sarcastic.

...why would we want that?

Hanging, when done correctly, is almost immediate death as well.

Ah nothing like some anonymous protesting, ahahah!

Founding Fathers didn't get everything right, but goddamnit they did on that one.

I am pretty sure I have.

EDIT

Others have reposted it to yet more comms as well, it seems.

Its cute that you think this guy cares about carrying this out legally.

You know the database and AI 'enhanced', Minority Report style surveillance systems Palantir lets Israel use, to pinpoint track and murder Palestinians?

Flock is that, for the rest of us.

Gaza was the beta test.

Nah.

Personally I say we bring back drawing and quartering.

Publically, of course.

What, does it being public make it worse somehow?

Who cares about your public reputation, you'd be dead afterwards.

The president is out there allegedly joking about committing genocide (military destruction of a civilization is an act of genocide if you didn't know btw), this guy can allegedly joke about hanging an unliked CEO

We can't be sure they got the right guy unless we see them do it in public. Otherwise they could just put up an AI video and say they did it, or hang an innocent mailroom guy and claim it was him.

Well how many people on Death Row are handing out juicy consultant work when he gets sick of being in local politics (or gets kicked out)?

Thats polite southern for "Ain't we not supposed to lynch people no more?"

It well could, if we could, ahah, capitalize on this rhetorical opportunity, this moment where seemingly 'everyone disliked that' is truly and actually a near universal sentiment amongst the working class, regardless of seemingly all else.

You wanna tear down flock cameras?

Good.

Now, are you a bad enough dude to tear down the entire system that makes Flock cameras not only possible, but inevitable?

Welcome to the revolution, comrade.

...something like that.

You just need the right narrative.

As has been said:

We need a movement with a quickness,

You are the witness to change, and to counteract,

We gotta take the power back.

My maga coworkers are kind of becoming based socialists. They don't understand it yet, but for some reason are a lot less against it in the right context. You can't just call it socialism, its gotta feel like some homestead grass roots, 1776 coded bullshit.

If you just use overtly patriotic phrases kind of like how MAGA has coined make america great again, they digest it much easier.

Their brains are getting broken right now. I don't know if you guys pay attention to internet slop but there is a maga civil war right now, and every Republican mom with a magical crystal shop in Florida is getting their minds melted.