• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    Man, that reminds that… while Christopher Hitchens was not a perfect person…

    He aruged that waterboarding was fine, volunteered to get waterboarded… and then did a total 180, nope that shit is absolutely torture and anyone who defends it is a barbarian.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=4LPubUCJv58

    Believe Me, It’s Torture

    What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it.

    … try and imagine literally any politician doing something like … publically admitting you were completely wrong.

    Muchless volunteering to go through what they force on others.