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Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.

https://explainxkcd.com/3081/

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

fuck if I watched this without knowing the context, I would have thought they are kidnapping her. What the fuck is this?

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 14 hours ago

Fascism. I used to think the word was just a silly term the privileged South Park goths accuse everybody of being. Of course I knew it existed in places like Iran, North Korea, and Russia, but not here. Not in the "Land of the Free".

But that was in the Before Times. Fascism is real, it's terrifying, it's disgusting, and it's here now. So we have to fight it. Together.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It looks like a kidnapping because that's what it is. They've not charged her with a crime to my knowledge. Demonstrates how easy it is for people to disappear. They had her from all angles, cuffed and gone in under a minute.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago