This problem shares the same root as the Christa Pike problem.
Waiting decades to enact justice in very obvious cases.
Had Nidal Hasan been dealt with appropriately – within the year of his conviction for what he was quite obviously guilty of – a private execution would have been sufficient.
I’m not a fan of the spectacle, but I’m open to being convinced that the spectacle has some ethical claim because of how long it has taken for justice to be enacted.
What I see as the possible distinguishing factor is that this is a military execution. The military does not handle justice the way civilians do.
That said, I don’t care to watch an execution. Generally, I do not believe public executions, which were historically routine, is edifying to the average person. Quite the contrary, they feed baser instincts.
My guess is that the administration wants to prove that it can pull off a more efficient execution than a state can.
If they can point to a firing squad and say, “See? That’s how it’s done, son. We don’t need lethal injections or electric chairs”, they can claim some kind of basic competence.
It’s just that I don’t think this administration really can pull off basic competence anymore. I’m envisioning it all going wrong because some fool forgot to put bullets in the guns, giving the Left another botched execution story to harp on, in addition to Trump being both evil and stupid at the same time.
When I saw this yesterday, I thought “it’s a terrible idea”, it will give this terrorist the martyrdom that he wanted. Across the globe, those that support the actions of this terrorist will hail this terrorist as a martyr and use the execution video to actively promote their ideology.
I guess I don’t want to watch someone die. Even if he deserves it. It’s not sport. It’s not entertainment. Do we really want to go back to the days when people packed a picnic lunch to go watch the hangin’? And then “Real Housewives of Wherever” still beats the firing squad in the ratings?
I really don’t see what this is supposed to accomplish, at least what good it can accomplish. Stir up Muslims? Give more impetus to anti-Capital punishment activists? Make Trump seem more like Hitler to the Trump Deranged? I’m trying to think of a single depiction of death by firing squad in a movie where the audience isn’t supposed to feel sympathy for those executed. Tom Cruise in “Valkyrie”? “Breaker Morant”?
Race communism is a blunt term. I came to accept it only by a slow process. It started when I noticed how normal it had become to speak in dehumanizing terms about white people. When Sarah Jeong had her position on the New York Times editorial board called into question in 2018 over social media posts such as “Oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men” and “Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins,” her defenders said that her posts were just part of the Millennial online vernacular. This was true, and that was the problem.
This talk sometimes had the fig leaf of being about “whiteness” rather than white people. According to Kendi, “whiteness prevents white people from connecting to humanity.” It was not just academics who talked like this. A diversity training module for Coca-Cola employees told them to “try to be less white,” meaning “be less oppressive, be less arrogant, be less certain, be less defensive.” Whiteness was talked about as something to be eliminated or abolished.
The next step came when I noticed how race was intruding into completely unrelated topics of conversation. Reading a book about euthanasia in 2021, I was jolted to see a quote in it to the effect that, since over 90 percent of people who seek assisted dying are white, we shouldn’t worry about it. Economist Adam Posen, in a viral clip of a conference panel in 2022, dismissed worries about America’s manufacturing base as “part of the general fetish for keeping white males of low education outside the cities in the powerful positions they’re in.”
When Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg delivered a speech about “equity and racial justice in infrastructure,” it was good for a laugh, but it wasn’t a joke when he put $1 billion toward it. The Federal Trade Commission in 2021 declared its intention to target racial bias as an unfair business practice. Some states put whites with multiple comorbidities behind non-whites with none in their distribution of the Covid vaccine. Everywhere I looked, people were spending real money and making real decisions based on the idea that non-white people deserved more consideration than their white counterparts.
You don’t have to look any further than any television commercial. The only white women are married to black guys and the only white guys are goofballs who are mocked.
At the moment I’m struggling with efficiently conveying the process I use to break down arguments into basic building blocks, so that other people can use it. The process uses well-defined concepts to identify people’s concerns and ways of addressing those concerns. However, my application of those concepts draws from my own experiences and practice. To be easily replicable, it needs to be a bit more systematic, or at least more intuitively described.
Would anyone be up for walking through the values reconciliation method with me and providing feedback on how the concepts can be explained more effectively? What problems would you want to see the method overcome? (For example, would you want to see people start to rethink their assumptions and the policies they support?)
Thanks, Tim! Don’t worry; learning about where people need hand-holding is exactly the point of collecting the feedback. I’m just grateful that people are willing to put in the effort.
You can use the “schedule an introduction call” link on the website to pick a time that works best for you. If there aren’t any times that are convenient for you, please let me know! https://www.visionaryvocabularies.com/
To be safe, I recommend allowing for an hour, but if we want to continue the conversation we can meet again later. Looking forward to our discussion!
Give a listen to the newly released BODY-CAM footage of the 6 year-old who shot his teacher in January 2023.
FF‘sS! What kind of home-life contributes to a 6-year-old getting like that? Care to lay odds that Lefty’ll blame it on under-funded schools and racism?
Honestly, this kid needs to be removed from the home. There’s got to be some method of housing young children whose parents have neglected ethical and moral training to that degree.
“Honestly, this kid needs to be removed from the home.”
Absolutely; can you even fathom what it’ll take to unravel and rewire this child’s existence…if that can even happen.
Are there other children in mommy’s care?
This hits close to home. One of my nieces (a career manipulative grifter) got knocked up by a right outta central casting thug, with a ccap record as long as your arm, and whose pending charges may result with him doing hard time.
That, with any number of other children -n- baby mamas he’s already ignoring, do not suggest a stable upbringing.
As I held my grand nephew two (2) months ago today, I thought about his future. I’m fighting to keep an open mind, and hoping, but not hopeful, for the best.
Last night, Mr. Golden and I attended the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis and saw the premiere of the film, “Jimmy”, about actor James Stewart’s WWII service and PTSD struggles in the immediate aftermath.
All in all, we enjoyed this uplifting movie excutive produced, in part, by Stewart’s daughter, Kelly. I would quibble with the casting of a Latino male as a significant character – more likely a composite of several real-life people – as well as an African-American veteran in one scene, though, I suspect the choices were made to make the movie acceptable to Academy Award consideration casting guidelines. I also found a fictional love interest overseas to serve as a sounding board for Stewart’s increasing trauma to perhaps be unnecessary but your mileage may vary.
The Q&A afterward included the director, screenwriters, producers and several actors from the film. The director talked about how divided we are as a country and how divided the world was back then. I wouldn’t call it quite the same thing, however. Nevertheless, I appreciated a moment in the movie when Frank Capra mentions he got angry at someone for calling FDR a name. Stewart points out that Capra voted for Wendell Willke. Capra argues that this is wartime, implying that Americans should be unified behind their president in times of trouble…
Yeah, you’d think they would.
Anyway, it’s a decent film with no profanity or inappropriate content (though there is some war violence and death). My parents and grandmother would like it. Perhaps, that’s the audience this movie is intended for but the whole family can at least watch it without hiding someone’s eyes or plugging their ears.
This was on a cnn article about the most recent dhs shooting. Is stroke through a new admission of correction? I have never encountered this. Seems like it would be helpful for readership to maintain perspective as a story changes.
Ethics? Or Ick?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-livestream-army-execution-fort-hood-shooter-pentagon-official-says-2026-10-08/
-Jut
This problem shares the same root as the Christa Pike problem.
Waiting decades to enact justice in very obvious cases.
Had Nidal Hasan been dealt with appropriately – within the year of his conviction for what he was quite obviously guilty of – a private execution would have been sufficient.
I’m not a fan of the spectacle, but I’m open to being convinced that the spectacle has some ethical claim because of how long it has taken for justice to be enacted.
Maybe.
What I see as the possible distinguishing factor is that this is a military execution. The military does not handle justice the way civilians do.
That said, I don’t care to watch an execution. Generally, I do not believe public executions, which were historically routine, is edifying to the average person. Quite the contrary, they feed baser instincts.
I still don’t intend to tune in.
-Jut
My guess is that the administration wants to prove that it can pull off a more efficient execution than a state can.
If they can point to a firing squad and say, “See? That’s how it’s done, son. We don’t need lethal injections or electric chairs”, they can claim some kind of basic competence.
It’s just that I don’t think this administration really can pull off basic competence anymore. I’m envisioning it all going wrong because some fool forgot to put bullets in the guns, giving the Left another botched execution story to harp on, in addition to Trump being both evil and stupid at the same time.
Ha. I had exactly the same thought!
When I saw this yesterday, I thought “it’s a terrible idea”, it will give this terrorist the martyrdom that he wanted. Across the globe, those that support the actions of this terrorist will hail this terrorist as a martyr and use the execution video to actively promote their ideology.
Counterpoint: the video won’t give them anything they aren’t already amped up for.
Michael West wrote, “Counterpoint: the video won’t give them anything they aren’t already amped up for.”
I disagree but time will tell.
It really is a terrible idea.
I guess I don’t want to watch someone die. Even if he deserves it. It’s not sport. It’s not entertainment. Do we really want to go back to the days when people packed a picnic lunch to go watch the hangin’? And then “Real Housewives of Wherever” still beats the firing squad in the ratings?
I really don’t see what this is supposed to accomplish, at least what good it can accomplish. Stir up Muslims? Give more impetus to anti-Capital punishment activists? Make Trump seem more like Hitler to the Trump Deranged? I’m trying to think of a single depiction of death by firing squad in a movie where the audience isn’t supposed to feel sympathy for those executed. Tom Cruise in “Valkyrie”? “Breaker Morant”?
The desperate French soldiers in “Paths of Glory”, maybe?
I think it’s bad optics for all the reasons you mentioned.
Oooh…good one! Old one, but a great movie.
Our President Donald Trump loves a good troll, but how about this?
https://x.com/NaomiSeibt/status/2107847272792772915
Here is a link to an article I just came across.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-racial-crossroads/
an excerpt
You don’t have to look any further than any television commercial. The only white women are married to black guys and the only white guys are goofballs who are mocked.
At the moment I’m struggling with efficiently conveying the process I use to break down arguments into basic building blocks, so that other people can use it. The process uses well-defined concepts to identify people’s concerns and ways of addressing those concerns. However, my application of those concepts draws from my own experiences and practice. To be easily replicable, it needs to be a bit more systematic, or at least more intuitively described.
Would anyone be up for walking through the values reconciliation method with me and providing feedback on how the concepts can be explained more effectively? What problems would you want to see the method overcome? (For example, would you want to see people start to rethink their assumptions and the policies they support?)
I’m always down – but I would mostly expect to stumble through the exercise and may require an inordinate amount of hand holding….
Thanks, Tim! Don’t worry; learning about where people need hand-holding is exactly the point of collecting the feedback. I’m just grateful that people are willing to put in the effort.
You can use the “schedule an introduction call” link on the website to pick a time that works best for you. If there aren’t any times that are convenient for you, please let me know! https://www.visionaryvocabularies.com/
To be safe, I recommend allowing for an hour, but if we want to continue the conversation we can meet again later. Looking forward to our discussion!
Give a listen to the newly released BODY-CAM footage of the 6 year-old who shot his teacher in January 2023.
FF‘sS! What kind of home-life contributes to a 6-year-old getting like that? Care to lay odds that Lefty’ll blame it on under-funded schools and racism?
PWS
Honestly, this kid needs to be removed from the home. There’s got to be some method of housing young children whose parents have neglected ethical and moral training to that degree.
“Honestly, this kid needs to be removed from the home.”
Absolutely; can you even fathom what it’ll take to unravel and rewire this child’s existence…if that can even happen.
Are there other children in mommy’s care?
This hits close to home. One of my nieces (a career manipulative grifter) got knocked up by a right outta central casting thug, with a ccap record as long as your arm, and whose pending charges may result with him doing hard time.
That, with any number of other children -n- baby mamas he’s already ignoring, do not suggest a stable upbringing.
As I held my grand nephew two (2) months ago today, I thought about his future. I’m fighting to keep an open mind, and hoping, but not hopeful, for the best.
PWS
Last night, Mr. Golden and I attended the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis and saw the premiere of the film, “Jimmy”, about actor James Stewart’s WWII service and PTSD struggles in the immediate aftermath.
All in all, we enjoyed this uplifting movie excutive produced, in part, by Stewart’s daughter, Kelly. I would quibble with the casting of a Latino male as a significant character – more likely a composite of several real-life people – as well as an African-American veteran in one scene, though, I suspect the choices were made to make the movie acceptable to Academy Award consideration casting guidelines. I also found a fictional love interest overseas to serve as a sounding board for Stewart’s increasing trauma to perhaps be unnecessary but your mileage may vary.
The Q&A afterward included the director, screenwriters, producers and several actors from the film. The director talked about how divided we are as a country and how divided the world was back then. I wouldn’t call it quite the same thing, however. Nevertheless, I appreciated a moment in the movie when Frank Capra mentions he got angry at someone for calling FDR a name. Stewart points out that Capra voted for Wendell Willke. Capra argues that this is wartime, implying that Americans should be unified behind their president in times of trouble…
Yeah, you’d think they would.
Anyway, it’s a decent film with no profanity or inappropriate content (though there is some war violence and death). My parents and grandmother would like it. Perhaps, that’s the audience this movie is intended for but the whole family can at least watch it without hiding someone’s eyes or plugging their ears.
This was on a cnn article about the most recent dhs shooting. Is stroke through a new admission of correction? I have never encountered this. Seems like it would be helpful for readership to maintain perspective as a story changes.