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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (8 children)

I'm fairly sure I saw the same beheading video in 2003. I was convinced it was real. My one friend was convinced it was fake. Our other friend couldn't decide.

Now, with hindsight, I'm STILL convinced it was real, but I'm wondering if what I saw was an early version of what would later become ISIS.

ISIS didn't exist formally yet in 2003, but it's not like they just came from nowhere. I'm fairly confident that I saw an early version of it with that beheading video.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

I think ISIS came (at least partially) from a group called "Al Quaeda in Iraq" if I recall. They were beheading people long before ISIS.

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago

Remember, the Taliban was prominent back then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 hours ago

was it... was it the one with the chain saw? I dont really want to remember it but its burned into my memory.

[–] Sphks@jlai.lu 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] inari@piefed.zip 8 points 14 hours ago

Wikipedia's comprehensiveness always amazes me

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 3 points 13 hours ago

The one I saw around the same time, perhaps a couple of years earlier, was from Chechnia. It has always been a favourite execution method of Islamists. ISIS didn't invent it.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

I saw it in that timeframe. Sadly, it's real.. ☹️😭

My dad sent me that video without any note or warning 😂

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 14 hours ago

it’s not like they just came from nowhere

So a lot of their members were Saddam's party. Part of 'debaathification' involved putting everyone who had been in the party on a list, but the nature of a 1 party state, that includes everyone from professors and traffic engineers to professional throat-slitters and the people managing them. If you were on the list, you could not be employed at any state enterprise. This made anyone whose job didn't have a private sector equivalent, functionally unemployable.