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Originally Posted by wheatrich
Thread has some updates, there was no interrogation they just threw him in there and cut him up while he was alive. GREAT PEOPLE THESE ARE THE BEST PEOPLE.
Saudis have a **** load of money here (hi silicon valley, hi trump) so this could get a bit lit and awkward quick.
edit--ofc saudis will just say they executed whoever did it and trump will say justice was served and then everyone will forget it ever happened by next tuesday.
We should probably be skeptical of Turkish intelligence reports too. Check how much of this story is bound entirely in unnamed Turkish intelligence sources.
What we actually have one incredibly brutal dictatorship (KSA) and two emerging authoritarian regimes (Turkey, and the US) trying to implant disinformation for public consumption. I'm inclined to sort of trust the Turkish retelling of events here but we should be wary with how eagerly they are leaking all of this, too.
The whole thing reminds me of this:
I don't want to be That Guy where all pieces of news bend toward some hysteric conclusion, perhaps the current moment will abate, authoritarianism will atrophy and wither, who knows.
But I think the big, meta take away here -- including the number of stories of how the literal Head of Interpol was recently Disappeared in China, a ****ing insane story with strangely far less coverage -- is that the new world order (US, Russia, the Middle East, China) may just be incredibly dangerous for journalists and authorities who **** around with powerful people, and no one is going to do anything, move along.
People can pray at the altar of Marco Rubio or whatever the **** but I think we should start to hunker down and prepare for a long decade or two. These regimes might be a little neater about this in the future, I mean the ****ing brutality of chopping up this dude with a bone saw is something else, but that too is probably a feature, not a bug.
Nothing is going to happen, journalists and others should absolutely be terrified of these sorts of events, and I don't see how you can have much hope for any accountability for any of this from anyone, there's no incentive for it.