I’ve watched this a dozen times already. What an absolutely incredible moment in history.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/11/world/video/syrian-prisoner-freed-clarissa-ward-digvid

‘My God there is light’: CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad’s forced detention | CNN

While searching a secretive prison in the belly of the Assad regime’s legacy of torture for American journalist Austin Tice, CNN’s Clarissa Ward made a startling discovery when a rebel fighter uncovered a hidden prisoner still unaware of Assad’s ouster.

CNN

@HeavenlyPossum

And if the U.S. did this, republicans would go APE SHIT.

@HeavenlyPossum

I'm just saying... if we universally closed all our prisons and freed everyone, republicans would lose their shit.

And here it's being celebrated.

@GuyDudeman

Oooh I gotcha.

Yeah. More than just Republicans; most Americans have been trained to believe prisons are natural and good and necessary.