korbinianDec 12, 2024
HeavenlyPossum

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
Dec 12, 2024 at 4:26pmWeb
Show threadHeavenlyPossumDec 12, 2024

There are people who are mad about this and still somehow imagine that they are “leftists” who support liberation.

Someday the Israeli occupation of Palestine will end and these people will be mad about that too.

Show threadbabyaprilgatorDec 12, 2024

@HeavenlyPossum

incredible
it’s actually hard to find the words to describe how that felt to watch

Show threadG.I. Robot Dec 12, 2024

@HeavenlyPossum

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

Show threadHeavenlyPossumDec 12, 2024

@GuyDudeman

What?

Show threadG.I. Robot Dec 12, 2024

@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.

Show threadHeavenlyPossumDec 12, 2024

@GuyDudeman

Oooh I gotcha.

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

Show threadG.I. Robot Dec 12, 2024

@HeavenlyPossum

True.

Show threadEd DaviesDec 12, 2024

@GuyDudeman Or even just Guantanamo Bay.

@HeavenlyPossum

Show threadPlsik (born in 320 ppm)Dec 12, 2024
@HeavenlyPossum Oh...
Show threadMike BreedloveDec 12, 2024
@HeavenlyPossum This report deserves some sort of prize. Holy shit.
Show threadAll there is is hereDec 20, 2024

@HeavenlyPossum and cranks win again: CNN didn’t fact check because it was so eager to run the emotional story. The inmate (if he ever was) is a former Syrian intelligence officer and involved in a dispute over divvying up corruption earnings. Our world sucks so bad…

There’s a correction posted to the top of the story now.