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jihadjihad 5 hours ago

I am sure the parents of Otto Warmbier [0] could disinfect your disbelief in the harsh light of their reality.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier

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erxam 36 minutes ago | parent [-]

Ok, so let me get this straight.

Some foreigner came into their country and tried to 'illuminate' the 'unwashed' masses via tearing down propaganda and was promptly thrown into some hellhole of a jail.

Seems to me like a normal thing to have happened. By the standards of the Global North, that is.

Doesn't seem meaningfully different from today's USA.

	▲	Incipient 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The way I read it is he was taking a poster home as a souvenir. An incredibly stupid thing to do, but I feel like being tortured to death for the amusement of people (presumably?) is somewhat excessive.