legitimately my impulse is something like "glass riyadh" phew but that is bad and unhelpful there would still be >200 national governments left
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have to start somewhere i guess
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its unusual for me to react so strongly to practically anything i guess most brutality is either (i) executed by individuals without much power, or (ii) sterilized by ritual and convention and hidden behind walls and oceans and the saudis just dont bother with that
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lots of disgust for the administration as well probably this mirrors (i) and (ii) all administrations lie, this one just badly? there's no curtain in front of the brick wall? probably more than that seems like many pols would at least be disgusted privately
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i think maybe the viscerally upsetting point is the private sadism governments kill and otherwise brutalize at scale as a matter of course that i guess i object to with some kind of consequentialist stance this though seems to violate something more primitive
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if they had just shot him in the head in private it would have been awful business as usual but there was no practical reason to saw him to pieces while he was alive except to make him suffer it was expected to be *private*, they couldnt expect to even send a message
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maybe what I mean/think/feel is that the horrors of the 20th century that we're half accustomed to are mechanical and institutionalized this seems like an older kind of crime
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We all understand the idea of “it ain’t personal, kid,” but for the throne, it is always personal.
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hmmm even that seems unusual? lotta monarchs willing to kill in history without being privately sadistic and those who were, were typically denounced as villains
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