The Pentagon said Thursday it will livestream the military’s first firing squad execution in decades, allowing the public to watch as the man who killed 13 people in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood is put to death.
I’d argue that in spite of the feckless of attempts, that the US on aggregate has strived to move away from that violent past, but the full throated nature of this sort of thing definitely feels “traditional” in that sense.
My argument is about the overall striving as a people and a nation, evidenced by a trail of admittedly flawed and leaky legislation whose heart I believe is in fact in the right place. It feels apparent that power sticks its foot in the jamb to hold the door ajar just enough for itself on almost every attempt to make progress.
I concede that US history is horribly marred and shameful, and it behooves us to honor that by not forgetting that past.
When? Doesn’t seem to me like they ever stopped invading/attacking poor countries. I guess you’re referring to when it switched from “we’re doing this for our gain” to “we’re doing this for their freedom”?
I think by US on aggregate they are referring to the general populous view. The general populous is at worst split on these world police, liberation crusades
America has always been violent
I’d argue that in spite of the feckless of attempts, that the US on aggregate has strived to move away from that violent past, but the full throated nature of this sort of thing definitely feels “traditional” in that sense.
US has a huge amount of violent crime, always has. They can’t stop warring since WW2.
Goes all the way back to the colonists commiting genocide against the Natives. Since before it began.
My argument is about the overall striving as a people and a nation, evidenced by a trail of admittedly flawed and leaky legislation whose heart I believe is in fact in the right place. It feels apparent that power sticks its foot in the jamb to hold the door ajar just enough for itself on almost every attempt to make progress.
I concede that US history is horribly marred and shameful, and it behooves us to honor that by not forgetting that past.
You believed wrong. It was always corrupt from the beggining. You just fell for the propaganda.
I didn’t say it wasn’t corrupt from the beginning. Best not, I think.
Oh okay, fair enough. People sometimes act like their is something to save. We are well past that point.
When? Doesn’t seem to me like they ever stopped invading/attacking poor countries. I guess you’re referring to when it switched from “we’re doing this for our gain” to “we’re doing this for their freedom”?
I think by US on aggregate they are referring to the general populous view. The general populous is at worst split on these world police, liberation crusades
Yeah, I mean the people. Aggregate not the right word. Ty for the assist there