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This saddens me and I don’t understand why it is allowed to continue. And I’m not just talking about Apple Maps.
by Chance-Device 6mo ago
This saddens me and I don’t understand why it is allowed to continue.
And I’m not just talking about Apple Maps.
- dryarzeg 6mo agoThis saddens me as well, because that's the type of thing that happens every day where I live, but... > I don’t understand why it is allowed to continue. The answer is even sadder. It's even worse. And it is as follows: because there's not enough people who are taking action, and from those taking action there's not enough people in power to change something significantly. At least that's how I see it. And... I can't even blame those who don't take action - because many people feel completely powerless, they feel like "what you can do to stop this war/other thing if you're just a regular human?"
- Chance-Device 6mo agoThis goes beyond direct action by individuals, it’s completely obvious what’s happening and it happens because the US political system has been captured.
- Pay08 6mo agoCaptured by whom?
- Chance-Device 6mo agoThis comes to mind: https://nypost.com/2025/03/19/us-news/benjamin-netanyahu-gifts-john-fetterman-a-silver-pager-during-israel-visit/ https://nypost.com/2025/03/19/us-news/benjamin-netanyahu-gif...
- jampekka 6mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Foreign_Policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Fore...
- Pay08 6mo agoYou mean the lobby that was outspent by Hungary last year?
- gosub100 6mo agoIsrael
- cassianoleal 6mo agoThe US political system is this. It has not been recently "captured". This is business as usual for them.
- ajkjk 6mo agoit... feels... more captured than usual, lately
- cassianoleal 6mo agoNot to those who have been on the receiving end. It's just less concealed, which in some ways is quite refreshing.
- jazzyjackson 6mo agogross
- jampekka 6mo agoThere's also a huge cost for taking action about this especially in the US. You can easily get thrown out of school, have your career destroyed or be deported.
- dvfjsdhgfv 6mo agoThis is mostly a US thing. Netanyahu and Putin are two war criminals according to International Court of Justice. Although Trump threatened the ICJ, this doesn't change that basic fact.
- andsoitis 6mo ago> Netanyahu and Putin are two war criminals according to International Court of Justice. You mean the ICC, not the ICJ. The latter is a separate body that handles disputes between states. Both have warrants for arrest by the ICC but note that neither Putin nor Netanyahu have been tried or convicted by the International Criminal Court.
- kashunstva 6mo ago> Although Trump threatened the ICJ I’ve wondered, in the immediate aftermath of his recent genocidal threats, whether Mr. Trump was feeling left out of that club.
- jampekka 6mo agoAlready in 2002 US passed the "American Service-Members' Protection Act" that allows USA to deploy military to prevent U.S. or allied officials and military personnel from being prosecuted or detained by the ICC. It passed via bypartisan vote well in time before US launched the illegal invasion of Iraq in which it committed various war crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
- iugtmkbdfil834 6mo agoThis. There are entire groups dedicated to rooting out any sign of deviation from per-authorized storyline and verbiage. It is particularly striking given that US considers itself 'free speech' bastion.