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December 21, 2024

Every day I am sad about what is happening in the world. In Gaza, in Syria, incredible tragedy and overwhelming human suffering. Prisoners are being liberated from the Sednaya Prison, nicknamed the Human Slaughterhouse. This from Wikipedia:

[It is] estimated in January 2021 that 30,000 detainees were killed by the Assad regime in Sednaya from torture, ill-treatment and mass executions since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, while Amnesty International estimated in February 2017 “that between 5,000 and 13,000 people were extrajudicially executed at Sednaya between September 2011 and December 2015.”

One newscaster said that women were raped and gave birth in the prison, their children never seeing the light of day. The level of atrocity is mind-boggling. And Tulsi Gabard believes Asad was a friend to the United States. Gabard will be the Director of National Intelligence. OUR NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. She’s a Russian apologist. It’s truly sickening.

I think about the depths of depravity humans are capable of. I am distraught over the state of the world. I am desperately fearful for our country. It seems that evil really is taking over, that there is no hope. I succumb to nihilism at times. Those times are terrifying. I try to bring myself up and out, but I’m not even sure there is a reason to believe anything other than the worst.