That’s basically what happened to Ghadaffi
Going by that the answer is that Authoritarians will all double down to the point of seeking out authoritarian buffer states because now they believe that the democratic world is either conspiring to get them or a motivator to their people to kill them just by existing at all.
lyth@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Besides the immediate threat of mass rioting and an armed resistance no matter who you’re flogging, public torture as entertainment is a very, very bad precedent to set, and only serves to build up a culture of antipathy. Imagine how the wider justice system would change once that’s normalized.