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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It's the logic of using polonium to poison someone - they could be maximizing terror, not discretion. One critic doesn't affect much, but this will make many people think twice.
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It could not have possibly been expected to stay private, either. A man goes into a consulate and doesn't walk out. State agents flying in and out on the same day on private jets. There's no way Erdogan's paranoid security state wouldn't have caught it.
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If they wanted to get rid of him secretly, they'd just hire randos through 15 intermediaries to knife him in the back in an alley.
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think my modal belief is, its consequence of MBS being a (i) bloodthirsty (ii) idiot
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If MBS were an idiot, he couldn't have outmaneuvered the entire Saudi establishment to seize the state in what amounted to a soft coup.
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hmm, that's true domain-specific competency maybe, I guess
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