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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

That sounds like something you say immediately before a CIA operative waterboards you for eight hours.

“What are you going to do, waterboard me?” - waterboarding victim

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is a full couple of years in media history, roughly corresponding to the decade after 9/11 where so many shows and films show the successes of torture… I was disgusted then, I’m disgusted now.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

There's an apocryphal story that cia requested they tone it down on the torture, because they were getting too many applications from obvious sickos.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

As you correctly noted, obtaining information is not the main goal.