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      I always thought their oath of allegiance, done every day in school, sounded so much like something kids in North Korea would be forced to do.

      This is just another thing to add to the pile.

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        Lol the fact that you’re even comparing them to a country that they literally genocided speaks to the effectiveness of American propaganda. Glad y’all eyes are starting to open up, but America has always been the evil country doing evil things lol.

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    the US has streamed several executions already. they just happened to be extrajudicial carried out by police/ICE

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        When police body cameras are always on and you execute someone, you’re not streaming it “accidentally”. You know you have a camera on your body while you murder someone and choose to do it anyway.

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              With the absolute certainty that they won’t get shown if it could hurt them. And even then they’ll turn them off when they want to do something really bad.

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          This is a really odd argument that I can’t understand, there is a categorical difference between an official broadcast of a scheduled execution and the video from a police body camera being released following the police killing someone. I don’t understand how you can say they are the same thing, whether the cop remembers in the moment they have a camera on is irrelevant. Capturing an incident as part of routine recording and then releasing that video after the fact is not at all like scheduling an execution and broadcasting it live for the world to watch.

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            I don’t understand how you can say they are the same thing

            The people doing the killing knows the cameras are on, watching their actions. And they go ahead and kill someone anyway.

            Just because the US justice system hides tax payer paid public servants from concealing their lawfully required body cam footage is a US justice problem. But the cops know they’re being recorded at all times and they’ll kill an unarmed civilian anyway.

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              I am not following. From my perspective, the people doing the killing are in very different circumstances and the purpose of the cameras are completely different. The message being sent with an execution being conducted like this seems completely different than the message being sent when there is a release of bodycam footage showing police killing someone.

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    Hate to break it to you, but this has always been a barbaric nation that was founded on colonialism and genocide. Putting an execution behind closed doors does not change that.

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      I’ve been waiting 40 years now for that leftward swing.

      Best we’ve done so far is Obama passing a heritage foundation free market based “healthcare” system.

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    That America is planning to do it already proves barbarism. Just like Republicans don’t need a successful fascist takeover to prove they are fascists. They already are.

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    If a country is executing its own citizens, that country is already a barbaric nation.

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    No if. You run torture camps where you detain people you’ve kidnapped from around the world. You kill innocent fishermen with navy seals. You murder entire weddings in drone strikes. You bomb baby food factories. You arm the Indonesians to carry out a genocide in East Timor. You drop chemical weapons on Vietnam. You bomb Cambodia and Laos, rendering about a million homeless. You kill one million in Iraq. You fund a genocide in Palestine. You fund a genocide in Guatemala. You bombed Yugoslavia when a diplomatic alternative that you proposed is on the table. You’ve turned Libya into an open air slave market. You’ve had Cuba in an economic stranglehold for decades, culminating in the current crisis. You’re the only nation that ever dropped an atomic bomb on civilian centers, and you did it twice. Six figure death toll those days alone. There’s no if. You’re a barbaric shitstain of a nation. Death to America.

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    don’t worry guys, it’s really not as bad as you think. it’s worse. you’ve been a barbaric nation since 1776.