You think they don’t want that? The more terror attacks on Americans the more they can push for the totalitarian police state to protect us.

It’s what Israel has been doing by funding Hamas and splintering Palestine.

they are all too stupid to understand any of the points you are making

Like Hegseth has literally no clue who he is dealing with. The people who he acts like this will discourage, all it will do is make happier to jump at the chance to have the same thing happen to them. He’s going to make the best recruitment tool for these terror organizations.

I don't think its accurate to say that Hegseth doesn't know what he is doing.

Making the execution public is on purpose, so the question is what purpose does it serve.

1. The most obvious seems to be about ego, and being a "tough guy" Hegseth (and Trump) are obsessed with being seen as strong men, and they think a public execution makes them seem tough

2. Terror, the next most obvious is that this is a part of the regimes ongoing terrorism campaign against Americans. Hegseth (and republicans in general) are telling people that they will find and execute anybody they think is an enemy.

"Speaking to Real America’s Voice, Hegseth made clear that the decision was deliberate. “We’re gonna make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” he said."

3. Desensitization seems to be next. The constant ramping up of violence, and the political celebration of violence is a pretty deliberate attempt to make government run violence a normal part of life.

4. Precedent is probably on this list. Now that the Regime can publicly execute people for terrorism, they can publicly execute anybody. They have already said that anybody who is against fascism is a terrorist, and they already have assaulted, imprisoned and killed people for it. Now they are setting a precedent that they can do it legally.

5. Pissing off Muslims and making more enemies is probably here too. The regime needs people to blame atrocities on, when Trump nukes Los Angeles, he is going to want to blame it on "extremists." It fuels his forever war, and gives him an unlimited supply of support from people that don't look too hard. This seems to be rather low on the list, since the regime already lies about everything, and lying about muslim terrorists is probably easier than telling the truth about muslim terrorists, but anything to cloud the waters is probably a bonus.

All the guy wanted was to die a martyr. He said so at his sentencing. Not only is this not going to show serious consequences but encourage future terrorists like you pointed out.

That said, Hegseth would be all too happy to encourage more violence on US citizens if it means ramping up the security apparatus and eroding citizen rights. No better than Netanyahu allowing Oct 7th to be as murderous as possible.

They don't give a shit about Islamic terrorism. This is just another push of the Overton window.

If you think this will be the only live streamed execution, you're in for a bad time.

Honestly, there is much greater than a 0% chance that Hegseth didn't understand serious consequences until he himself was exposed to it, so he thinks everyone else needs that type of awakening.

100%. The guy didn't do it thinking he'd get away with it or the US military would give him a slap on the wrist at his court martial. He intentionally tried to get the death penalty.

No, he understands very well the fascist economy needs enemies. If you gave Petey-pie a button that cleanly deleted Islam from the planet, he'd never press it because he can't function without an opposing religious extreme...

For a sillier analogy, Batman and the Joker fight all the time but can't exist without each other.

Also, for the people who care about that, firing squad is how you kill other soldiers. By extension, the Pentagon is acknowledging this man as a combatant and not a terrorist.

It degenerates the society that makes it a spectacle.

Everyone knows shooting sprees are bad but people still do them in spite of the punishments.

Should personally pull the trigger himself if he wants it done like this. What service member will have this weight on them?

Yeah, he'll be there in person. Standing next to the firing squad, jerking himself off.

And before ice, I've seen cops do it

It's been going on since USA was born, in other states, at US behest. Is out of sight really better?

"Civilized" does not mean willfully exploited.

If the US decides to livestream the execution, they will, of course, not do anything as crass as what ISIS did and put it in dark web or something.

No, they're going to be classy people, and put it on pay per view! With crypto shitcoin rugpull sponsorship. That's what we expect from the Trump administration at this point as a bare minimum. They will sink even lower in manners that are hard to predict, however.

There's a comment like this on the conservative subreddit thread about this. Even those loons can put this together, along with how this is the best recruitment for ISIS there's ever been.

I think for NK it's more related to access to the internet and infrastructure not able to handle streaming. They may show it via terrestrial and would have the infrastructure for that. It wouldn't depend on American / external services to manage this.

Might as well develop a new military logo with a skull on it

It just gives the signal that violence is ok now

It's never going to happen from the general public. Sorry to burst your bubble.

The only hope left is that there are some true Americans left in the military that are able to work together. Hopes not high for that either, as it would have happened by now.

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