You already are a barbarian nation for still having capital punishment in the first place.
This new development would just put you a few notches farther away from civilization.
Imprisoning Trump and his goons wont make a difference. Treason and mass murder need to be dealt with in a permanent way.
If it is not Livestreamed you are still a barbaric nation. Not doing anything against children being murdered in school shootings is far worse in my opinion.
Rules in this country:
A clean family show -> ✅ Profanity-> gray zone Sex-> gray zone A live execution using a human as a firing range target -> ✅
We’ve been a barbaric nation for a while. It’s just on full display now. This display of violence changes nothing.
Any people more afraid by not having a gun than by not having a doctor is immature.
In reality:
Before it happened: “If we [thing] it will destroy us and we will deserve it.”
After thing: “lol oh well in for a penny”
America believes the weak and impoverished should be left to die and that we should publicly execute people.
America is Barbaric
Not the unprovoked bombing of a school?
Yeah but that was like over there. This is here. You know?
True! Alright so I’ll roll coal with my rented and lifted F350 tonight!!! w00t w00t
The fuck you mean “if”?!
Rest of the world’s got news for you folks.
The people that I’ve unfortunately talked to that either support or don’t condone it do not care that this is “barbaric”. They condone violence, and they want more of it.
You cannot shame or reason with these people. American religious conservatism is a cancer and you cannot reason with or shame with a cancer.
Just a reminder that this is another distraction tactic, not to say it’s not barbaric but Trump always needs a new story so people stop talking about his unbelievable failures.
You are a barbaric nation, livestreamed or not. You still have the death penalty for starters, and every school shooting is met with thoughts and prayers and nothing else.
You’ve always been this way and it’s taken a monster shining a torch on it to show you. And your plan is just to get rid of the monster, as if that makes it all OK again…
30% barbaric. 30% not barbaric. 40% undecided.
30% barbaric. 30% not barbaric. 40%
undecideddon’t see an issue with barbarism.FTFY.
We just don’t have the luxury of that argument, I’m afraid… The problems here are systemic and exist within each of us to some degree.
got a loicense for that opinion, mate?
Yeah, the U.S. sucks but people from the U.K. can shut the fuck up about it.
American here. People from everywhere and anywhere can say whatever they want about the US. If that makes you feel bad, you can log off and not read the comments.
I love a lot of things about this country, I work hard and am actively working towards trying to make the America around me less shitty. But the comments and criticisms on America and the people that live here and who is in power are valid. Don’t like it, fine and you may fuck off and go do something productive.
“Because we were founded on the genocide of indigenous people and enslaving others we kidnapped from their homes, we are a barbaric nation.”
It’s less punchy as a headline but more accurate.
Yes the US culture of barbarism goes right back to day one. Genocide, slavery, war after war after war. Anyone just picking up on this is a bit late to the party.
If? Fuck you. The US is definitely a barbaric nation. Don’t try to give them an option for an out.
What’s the out? The religious conservatives in this country are bloodthirsty and violent and will just embrace this accusation.
They’ll see this accusation and go “good, we’re not being barbaric enough! Barbarians are strong and might is right!” That is how these people think.
The out as in if this doesn’t go through it implies that perhaps the US is a non barbaric nation by this wording.
The fuckheads in office raided a sitting Democratic rep’s house for immigration papers from three fucking years ago! The brown shirts have thrown legal citizens in concentration camps, they’ve kidnapped people and have done so with zero consequences. They are going to sell tickets to EXECUTE someone on live tv (who I might add is in a wheelchair). We are far passed barbaric.
Well that’s their goal. They that think the more goulish they behave, the stronger they appear, because they think cruelty = strength. Weak men trying to be strong.
The only countries to carry out public executions in 2025? Iran and Afghanistan. That’s the company Pete Hegseth wants America to keep.
The only countries actively committing genocide in 2025? USA and Israel. So why didn’t this alone push America over the barbarity line? It seems to me that Iran and Afghanistan are ones who should be taking a moral audit of their public executions after seeing America emulate it. And isn’t Israel supposed to start mass hangings of Palestinian hostages soon? Maybe won’t be live but they certainly will be taped and disseminated.
But I get it, I mean if you choose a new Rubicon every week then you’ll never have to actually confront Nazi Caesar will you?
I mean the article is just peak neoliberal obnoxious “alternative reality”
I think the author is a real case study of a classic “delusion liberal”.
his culture deliberately slaughters small children in schools, committing war crimes on a monthly basis, steals oil from the poor global south and forces millions of poor Caribbean people to live without any electricity.
And only when he peaks into the reality of his culture, the one that enabled 80 million adults to “elect” a pedo and rapist, only then the “delusional liberal” screams:
“ wHaT ArE We?! a bUnCh Of iArANiAnS”
