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.

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Incipient 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	foogazi 3 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> The way I read it is he was taking a poster home as a souvenir. An incredibly stupid thing to do Sounds like the most innocuous thing in the world
	▲	erxam 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I guess so, given that we'll never know what he actually did. The punishment was sort of excessive, I agree. I'm mostly trying to make light on the fact that trying to validate outlandish propaganda by using an event which actually happened as some kind of 'gotcha' falls flat when the event you're talking about is something that happens routinely in the USA and, more generally, in the Global North. If I went to the USA and took down a MAGA poster, my ass would be in Alligator Alcatraz 2.0 within the day and nobody would ever find me again. At least until I land in South Sudan or some shit.

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throawaywpg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The USA would never have a foreign national executed over a sign...

	▲	erxam 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Being sent to an active war zone like South Sudan after being stripped of all my belongings and goods with no way to get home or communicate with anyone doesn't seem like much of a functional improvement to me.