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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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Overt brutality is relatively common outside the European politics even today.
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Europeans killed and tortured a lot of people, but they were not that theatrical in the Age of Empires already.
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It's relatively visible in colonial wars in Africa. When you have regular European troops, they just shoot and starve a lot of people with occasional rape and torture, when you have native militia it ends with chopping hands and atrocities in the Congo Free State.
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People were angry at Leopold because it's not European, but it's relatively usual pre-modern and modern African warfare. If you google congo atrocities, it will show you very recent ones, with dismembering, cannibalism, etc.
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From July 3 of 2018.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-congo-violence-un/mass-rape-cannibalism-dismemberment-u-n-team-finds-atrocities-in-congo-war-idUSKBN1JT2CF …
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yeah -_- ugh i guess that just reads as more distant weve got a name and a face here one death is a tragedy etc
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