The internet was not supposed to suck. Here's what went wrong.
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The video shows a man forced to the ground and pummeled by masked men.The video shows a man forced to the ground and pummeled by masked men. Then, when he is completely helpless, they shoot him in the back.
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“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.”“We are a country ruled by a megalomaniac whose views are openly hateful and proudly ignorant, whose avarice knows no bounds and whose claim to power is absolute. Foreign leaders try to appease him with flattery and curry his favor with gifts.”
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“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.”“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.”
"We have become a country where a person can be summarily executed in public for protesting that paramilitary force.”
"We have become a country whose federal government deploys military and paramilitary forces in the streets of its major cities, terrorizing the residents in the guise of protecting them.” (1/2)
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“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.”Masha Gessen. It needs to be said, and it needs to be felt.
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Mobster on the left had the journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered with a bone saw.'nMobster on the right says that’s just fine: “A lot of people didn't like the gentleman you're talking about.Mobster on the left had the journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered with a bone saw.
Mobster on the right says that’s just fine: “A lot of people didn't like the gentleman you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen.”
They don't even bother to pretend.
