Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live

Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live

The US is facing worldwide condemnation over a “barbaric” plan to execute a disabled man by firing squad and livestream it to the public, with critics comparing the Trump administration to dictatorships in Iran and Afghanistan.

The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at a military base at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, would be livestreamed on 3 December.

The United Nations’ office of the high commissioner for human rights warned on Friday that broadcasting the killing would amount to a public execution and “breach the absolute prohibition of torture”.

  • voidsignal@lemmy.world
    86·
    18 hours ago

    “and by extension, the world” yeah no. The World will dump its ties with the USA. One at a time until it is completely irrelevant. They are mostly irrelevant already. I know America likes to see everything as “inevitable”, “too big to fail” and other propaganda BS. Blockchain, AI, themselves. But they really are not. World will continue its course, with or without USA.

    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 hours ago

      World will continue its course, with or without USA.

      Yeah. Most developing countries may soon exchange one hegemony for another, a hegemony that believes in providing and promoting “benevolent development” over “degenerate America”.

    • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      51·
      17 hours ago

      The impact of American influence of course varies from region to region, but American foreign policy under Trump has become even more centered around the notion of American exceptionalism than it had been already. Several far-right movements around the world have seen bolstered success through not only inspiration from Trump’s success, but also direct financial and political support from the U.S. government.

      That’s not to say that the entire world follows along, but the U.S.'s influence is by no means irrelevant.

      • voidsignal@lemmy.world
        46·
        17 hours ago

        it influences a ridiculously small portion of idiots that make a lot of noise that’s all. No other democracy has such a pool of bigots and idiots other than the US

        • Dæmon S.@catodon.rocksEnglish
          81·
          15 hours ago

          it influences a ridiculously small portion of idiots

          No other democracy has such a pool of bigots and idiots other than the US

          Hi, a Brazilian here. 56,104,503 bolsonaristas (for contrast, there were 158,745,079 Brazilians registered to vote, from which only 125,275,835 went to the 2026 election day, with 53,879,538 of them having chosen to vote for the current POTBR Lula da Silva) (source, in Portuguese) doesn’t seem like a “ridiculously small” number to me…

          I even wonder, given the declining approval rates regarding the current POTUS, if the “number of people who carry water for christofascism” around here exceeds that of USA, even though USA has a larger population than Brazil (iirc, something around 500 mi and 200 mi respectively).

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          • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            13 hours ago

            Dude really has his head in the sand regarding the global rise of right-populist-authoritarianism. I wish it was as simple as cutting ties with this garbage country while we sort it out (or collapse entirely) but the ones with real power aren’t confined to one place. That money spends everywhere.