This is literally turning into Monday Night Rehabilitation from Idiocracy.

This whole cabinet is like a less funny version of that movie.

I've got a better reason... Watching it will only make you a worse person. And I don't mean in the sense it's morally wrong, but that the act of joining in the crowd cheering for suffering and death will inevitably chip away at your empathy

I doubt the primary reason is monetary, this is the kind of wannabe influencer bullshit the MAGA leaders love to put on. It's performative larper fascism. I'm sure someone will find a way to make a profit, but they're doing it for the sake of doing it. It just makes their nipples hard

But more importantly, hate is a poison. Exposure makes it just a little bit easier to stomach next time. It's feeding the wolf in you that lusts for hurting others

"Don't watch the snuff film!"

Well, okay. I wasn't. But now I'm still not.

What if I told you live streaming the execution wasn't about the money? The regime will claw money wherever they want.

It's about power, humiliation, dehumanization, and desensitization.

It's also a test. Can we get away with publicly executing people? They seem to have done it so far, cops and ICE have done it for a while.

It won't stop at public execution of death row inmates. The Nazi train is full steam ahead, and there will be a lot more death, a lot more suffering, and a lot of people enjoying every fucking second of it. Why? Because that's the only thing they enjoy. Its a disease that is only curable one way.

Even if it were Epstein himself, I’d be against it being publicized. Heinous crimes should be taken seriously and even if the courts agree to a death sentence, it should not be celebrated. No amount of death can change the damage that was already caused.

it's the two minutes hate.

Pretty wild to think you're not allowed to show a boob on national television but they want you to watch some guy get his face blown off.

I am astounded that especially Americans seem to be the ones who do not know about this. Even the public broadcaster here put it as a headline on both it's homepage and it's news segments, right next to the US showing they have no qualms with people who commit atrocities and instead attacking the people who fight against the people who committed these atrocities. Our newspapers (even the crappy free ones) also all reported on this.

It really shows the true mental state of the US - either so overworked that they can't engage anymore because of a lack of ressources, so overwhelmed by what is happening that they stop engaging with current events, fully committed to this insanity or a small part of the populace that still cares. There doesn't seem to be much inbetween anymore

...and you're a piece of shit if you watch it.

George Carlin did a bit about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDO6HV6xTmI Only took 30 years

Gladiator fights at 8 on channel 6.

Only the sick moronic fucks who support MAGA will watch it.

I am so far as to boycott any service which streams this. Even if it gets unpleasant.

Will they put the American flag on the background full DAESH style?

This is close to what a friend of mine witnessed 30 years ago in Nigeria. Criminals were punished in the "War Against Indiscipline". Televised determents, such as beatings and amputations the right hand for stealing. The first man to suffer this was Bube Jangebe - for stealing a cow. This is many steps back to Medieval times. Next will be the rack.

To be fair, plenty of live assassinations in the US by ICE have already been streamed. This will seem timid by comparison. Having said that, don't worry, won't watch, but I don't think it's about the amount of people watching either. It's about the message, it's about sending your political opponents links to a public execution.

The scary part is how much of the world is heading in this direction now.

I would kinda like a list of anyone that buys advertising for the broadcast.

Truly the perversion of our society in real time. Some people are GIDDY about it

They are actually doing this? Fucking hell, I joked about it recently because of how fucking absurd the idea is.

This paves the way for judges to issue executions far more frequently and will result in the most colossally vile abuse of our legal system we will ever know.

This isn't hyperbole, American "justice" has done exactly, to minors no less!

two judges at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, were exposed for receiving kickbacks in return for harsh adjudications on juvenile deliquents to increase occupancy at a private prison operated by PA Child Care.

Yes bro we know, the people who will watch it want them to do more.

Is this really general discussion? Like if I wasn't on PTO right now and back at work, would my coworkers talk to me about this?

That's not even the biggest issue here.. The point seems to be more normalising murdering American citizens who are "traitors"..

If it does get aired, The Purge will become a game show.

Goddamn thing just as worse as a livestreamed DAESH execution.

People that have never seen death will learn how to earn PTSD. I've seen enough death, you can't unsee it and what makes it worse is when you find out your friends died, you start to imagine how they died and you have all these mental images.

It's a cartoon/anime but 86 lightly touches that subject, probably why it was banned/censored until people complained.