Hegseth Pushes Public Firing Squads: Handmaid’s Tale Next?
What’s next after public executions by firing squad?
Pete Hegseth couldn’t contain his bloodlust when discussing making a firing squad execution available to the public. — HuffPo
What’s next? Check The Handmaid’s Tale.
Moving state-sanctioned violence into the public square isn’t about accountability; it is the deliberate construction of an authoritarian ritual designed to desensitize the public and project unchecked state authority. Public spectacles force viewers into psychological complicity — shifting the citizen’s role from observer of the rule of law to participant in state-sanctioned bloodlust.
From Pete Hegseth’s push for public firing squads to Gilead-style spectacle: See what comes next when state violence turns into political theater.
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White Christian Nationalists run amok
The United States of America has been replaced by the Republic of Gilead, an extremely oppressive theocracy that enslaves and subjugates nearly every one of its citizens to barbaric punishments. — Screen Rant
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The Handmaid’s Tale describes a toxic world in which misogyny and environmental degradation has turned the US into a totalitarian theocracy. The fictional republic of Gilead has enforced a system of gender-based violence, enslaving the few women capable of bearing children to serve as “handmaidens” to the ruling class. — The Conversation
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could barely contain his excitement Thursday when discussing an upcoming execution of a man by firing squad. And he wants you to watch.
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Hegseth told MAGA influencer and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. — HuffPost
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