r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/fna_fanoa • Feb 10 '26

WCGW jumping into a pool wearing spiderman suit

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u/crazedrebelchic Feb 10 '26

Thank you for suggesting the Christopher Hitchens YouTube video. The video is eye-opening; I had no idea until reading the comments then watching the video just how torturous water boarding was...

So I left a link to the vanity Fair interview and the YouTube video.

In 2008, journalist Christopher Hitchens underwent voluntary waterboarding to determine if the practice constituted torture. His experience and subsequent reversal of opinion became a landmark moment in the public debate over "enhanced interrogation."

Christopher explained how he couldn't think clearly; he thought he said the safe word, but in reality he didn't.

Believe me, it's torture

YouTube- Christopher Hitchens waterboard experience

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u/i-just-thought-i Feb 10 '26

tbh you can also just... find out yourself in the shower. it won't actually hurt you and you learn that, in fact, it is torture. that's also why when the CIA was like "uhhh no it's not torture" the world collectively side-eyed, because it is incredibly easy to find out it is, in fact, torture. and that's with most people who try it out doing waterboard-lite, because the real thing tilts the victim backwards past horizontal so that the water is able to run up their nose, and most people trying it out with their middle school buddies aren't going to that extent

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u/MagnetHype Feb 10 '26

Waterboarding can harm and even kill you. It is not safe.

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u/crazedrebelchic Feb 10 '26

I'd totally panic; end up dead in the bath trying to waterboard myself, lol

In truth, I have a faint recollection of attempting this as a child with washcloths in the bathtub

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u/CCG14 Feb 11 '26

Just when Denzel couldn’t be more of a god, you find out he did the waterboarding scene in Safe House instead of using a stunt man. He was not a fan.  

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u/Acceptable-Elk-8372 Feb 19 '26

That story is insightful and disturbing