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Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by AzzieElbab on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:59PM (#25547135)
What you said about social media is absolutely true wrt to trying to have nuanced conversations. It is not true when it comes to fact gathering. For example, my own opinion of Khashoggi changed when I read twitter posts from people I follow for completely unrelated reasons but who happen to have known him personally.
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Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by Kranar on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:16PM (#25547251)
This is a rather bizarre and kind of scary comment to be honest. It suggests that one's opinion about torture and murder depends on the individual being tortured rather than on the one doing the torture.

I really don't care one bit about Khashoggi, one way or another, and no Twitter post about him could ever make me change my mind that torturing and murdering him is categorically wrong.

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Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by pmiller2 on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:05PM (#25547175)
What do you mean "changed?" What was your opinion before and then after reading these Twitter posts?
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Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by AzzieElbab on Sunday December 27, 2020 @09:04AM (#25551090)
Before - saudis murdered a martyr for journalistic freedom. After - barbaric power struggle spilled out of Saudi Arabia and claimed one of the players as victim
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Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by pmiller2 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @10:39PM (#25556480)
Fair enough. Kashoggi most definitely was not just any journalist. Either interpretation reflects pretty horrible on the Saudi royal family though.
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Re:An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming S... by amcoastal on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:43PM (#25547421)
Yo you might want to take a long hard look at yourself if you're cool with torturing and murdering anyone.
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