I watched 2 seconds of the video, then read that whole thread looking to find out what happened to the guy. I assume they kill him? Do we know who’s in the uniforms and who’s over the fire?
That tells me literally nothing about the other tweet by Fermi_Sorry with the video of the guy getting tortured and presumably killed.
I’ve seen how enough of those videos end to know that he isn’t alive anymore.
Man I had a way stronger stomach for this type of stuff as a teenager than I do now. I wonder what changed because normally you become desensitized to that stuff as you age rather than the other way around.
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The country seems to be in turmoil, sorry I don’t have more information and don’t want to be speculative.
The answer, sadly, is nothing new.
I was there when the military took over and started hanging criminals outside school gates as a warning to kids. Nigerians who had previously hoped the military might clear away some of the corruption at the top of politics soon found themselves in the unenviable position of supporting the corrupt politicians again.
The situation’s far worse now though, with Boko Haram in the mix.
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I think the normal thing is to be kind of a psychopath when you’re a teenage boy and get some empathy back when you grow up.
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Supporting the strong man to reign in chaos never works. That principle applies very broadly in lots of barely similar situations.
I suppose so.
But I still find Marvin getting shot in the face on Pulp Fiction to be hilarious.
Sure. I don’t think the military had strong support in the country - there wasn’t much anyone could do about it, so they took an optimistic view before the military showed itself to be insane.
I think that “society” also puts a lot of pressure on teenage boys to be tough and aggressive and alpha so they can develop into Real Men. This will manifest as being super insensitive as a teen boy, some people are lucky enough to recover some of the empathy that has been drilled out of them. And some just grow up to be assholes.
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I used Bing and it said it’s a German turnip.
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edward scissorhands suddenly enters stage left
https://twitter.com/Tobeech/status/1400397617239056389
https://twitter.com/Tobeech/status/1400397945342676992
https://twitter.com/Tobeech/status/1400400042733735941
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That sounds like an ambitious goal. What‘s the marketing budget alone going to be to sell their chocolate bars globally?
Woke Anti-Colonial Chocolate Bars sell themselves.
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So are we shorting chocolate producers now?
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Here’s an article anyone here could have written.