Iraqi Army Crowdsourcing Executions

[khad]

I wonder what this says about the age of social media.

https://i.imgur.com/VMRNY47.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/RF7WN7g.png
https://i.imgur.com/uWyDsAB.jpg

[John Nada]

You forgot the slash "/" in [/spoil]. What if it were a near tie, but the thumb down comment meant disapprove of this shit or "spare him" like pollice verso, yet it were counted as modern misconception as meaning "kill him"? Of course, being the internet, dude never stood a chance.

[Homo Songun]

And you silly "anti-imps" questioned the democracy-building project in Iraq. See? Government transparency in action!

[o well this is ok I guess]

You forgot the dash in [/spoil].

What if it were a near tie, but the thumb down comment meant disapprove of this shit or "spare him" like pollice verso, yet it were counted as modern misconception as meaning "kill him"? Of course, being the internet, dude never stood a chance. If you watch any silly movie on roman gladiators, I assume there are more than one (honestly don't know), it's thumbs down. Cuz, y'know, for a gesture we know little about we know it at least has something to do with thumbs and a direction, so thumbs down is something audiences will understand immediately.

[Cliff Paul]

If you watch any silly movie on roman gladiators, I assume there are more than one (honestly don't know), it's thumbs down. Cuz, y'know, for a gesture we know little about we know it at least has something to do with thumbs and a direction, so thumbs down is something audiences will understand immediately.

That mostly comes from that beautiful painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme. We aren't exactly sure what the signal was the audience gave. Some suspect it was actually a sideways gesture (if you've ever seen pro-wrestling, the thing the Undertaker does...lol) which would indicate slitting the opponent's throat.

[Recuperation]

I went and stalked some of the accounts who voted kill and yep they look pretty much exactly like the kind of person who would vote to kill a random stranger over the internet. Wonder if that dude was actually even an ISIS fighter.

[Antiochus]

Wouldn't this technically, according to most bourg. laws, constitute "accessory to murder"? I mean, even if the guy was an ISIS fighter, there would be no real way to discern that over the internet and these people 'voted' to have him killed.