On one hand, I do think torture is wrong
But on the other hand, this just feels like more confirmation of Ukraine/US involvement that they’re so outraged about it.
On one hand, I do think torture is wrong
But on the other hand, this just feels like more confirmation of Ukraine/US involvement that they’re so outraged about it.
The proper response to a state torturing a suspect is not “I’m sure he deserved it”
“I’m sure he deserved it”?
Jesus Christ he just shot dozens of people including children in a terrorist attack. I’m pretty damn sure he deserved it.
This isn’t some random person arrested for shop lifting. This is a mass murderer.
Either put him on trial or put a bullet in his head. Torture achieves nothing, it’s just petty revenge.
There is no excuse for a state torturing anyone, so there is no room for “he deserved it” in this conversation. It should be the easiest thing in the world to look at Russians torturing this guy and say that’s wrong. This is the difference between critical support and unconditional support.
You are also assuming he is guilty based on what, news reports in the immediate aftermath? That we all know are just press releases straight from the cops? You can’t look at stuff like mundane drug arrests in the U.S. and be hypersuspicious of every allegation then uncritically accept the first story the cops put out on a high-profile terrorist attack.
They literally recorded all the slaughter on their phone and their faces are in almost every frame, fuck off terrorist whitewasher
You’re the one going to bat for torture here. Torture that is inexcusable no matter what these guys did.
But I’m sure you’ve done a deep, sober dive into the evidence and are not simply repeating (other) things the cops told you. I’m sure we have the full story about what exactly happened and who exactly was involved 48 hours after the fact.
Fuck off cracker
Eat my whole ass
What does it fucking matter if he’s guilty, it’s not the police’s job or the state’s job to enact revenge.
I mean, uh, it kind of is?
It’s not, but too many of the responses in this thread verge dangerously close to “all states bad,” “all cops are bastards,” “be a fucking decent human being,” and other nuance-less liberal platitudes. If I wanted that sort of thing I could go over to r/tankiejerk or some other anarchist-infested hellhole.
I want to live in the reality where libs are saying ACAB
Anarchists – the exact same thing.
(EDIT: though with an extra dash of annoyingness, caused by 1, their anti-intellectualism, shown in comments like the one preceding; 2, their sheer inability to get anything done except wrecking; and 3, their colossal sense of victimhood over Trotsky’s having, in one of the few based moves of his career, absolutely fucked over Makhno and his band of rapey thugs).
Torture isn’t a very nuanced subject. There just aren’t any excuses for it, especially not here, where it’s purely retributive and the act in question is clearly torture.