>I refrained from voting since this is a throwaway. Bizarre logic, but okay. I'm glad you enjoyed the piece, at least. >the American remake does a good job sho

>I refrained from voting since this is a throwaway. Bizarre logic, but okay. I'm glad you enjoyed the piece, at least. >the American remake does a good job showing how if you truly try to advocate for your district, it often ends with someone decent dying and the evil moving on up This is an extremely cynical worldview not necessarily borne out by history over the long term, and also why I ended up hating the show after the second season. >unlike Putin, the governments of the EU are unwilling to shoot their own people I would say they just don't need to rely on such means as often. It has happened, and probably continues to do so under the radar. The guy who was found in a duffel bag in his bathtub that was blamed on the Russians, for example: https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/rip-buzzfeed-news-intelligence-agency https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/rip-buzzfeed-news-intel...? For the rest, there's always extended solitary confinement, as they're doing to Julian at the moment.