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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by throwawaysea on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:25PM (#27058463)
Agree. I was never that cognizant of what ISIS/ISIL/Daesh were capable of until I saw videos on LiveLeak that made it all very real. You won’t find those anywhere else, but I dare say that the emotions those stir in the viewer create political clarities that are razor sharp, in a way you can’t get through overly academic and stoic news articles.
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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by op00to on Thursday May 06, 2021 @06:23AM (#27061205)
It’s almost as if the propaganda is working.
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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by 74d-fe6-2c6 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:20AM (#27060453)
Getting your head cut off and die within few seconds isn't more cruel than getting half your face ripped off and a leg due to an airstrike and then bleeding to death over the course of several minutes. Isis was just more honest with their inhumanity.
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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by secondcoming on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:35AM (#27060923)
There are videos of beheadings where it literally takes minutes for the head to be cut off. It's not a swift blow to the neck with a sword. I remember one where the executioner had to borrow a knife from someone in the crowd because his wasn't sharp enough.
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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by 74d-fe6-2c6 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:07AM (#27062616)
utterly disgusting ... period. I almost want to vomit reading that. I hope you didn't watch that yourself.

my point holds nonetheless.

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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by criddell on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:32AM (#27064786)
I think you're being downvoted because you're point is really just whataboutism. It's perfectly valid to talk about the horrors committed without needing to point out that other groups do nasty things too.
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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by 74d-fe6-2c6 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:08PM (#27065345)
it's not at all whataboutism because I'm not trying to justify either side.

and - being downvoted on HN becomes more and more an endorsement afaic tell.

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