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by throwaway3060 8mo ago
Even then, Gaza is far more dense than Grozny; almost certainly the Grozny campaign was conducted with far more deliberate indifference to any concept of morality.
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by throwaway3060 8mo ago
I hear this sentiment a lot when it comes to people trying to justify why Ukrainians or Iranians are somehow less deserving of their attentions, and it infuriates me every time. If the goal is to try to prevent unjustified killings, then it
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by throwaway3060 8mo ago
There are others here who would strongly disagree with this view, or the other views expressed on here. Personally, I was startled by the post in question, even as I wondered what was actually meant by it. We all have to coexist on here.
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by throwaway3060 8mo ago
I can get through 1300 with some effort, but from 1200 I get nothing. Just a complete dropoff in that one time frame.
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by throwaway3060 8mo ago
I hate to say this, but wariness of software developed within Russia has been around for ages, long before the current war. Since there are a lot of both Ukrainian and Russian software developers, this is personal for a lot of people in the
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by throwaway3060 9mo ago
Why is that a double standard? The US position is that recognized nations have sovereignty, and are the supreme law within their jurisdiction. If there is no recognized legitimate sovereign power, then the US is fine with an international b
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by throwaway3060 9mo ago
When has the US used the argument that a judicial system has universal jurisdiction? In the US, foreign policy is the domain of the executive, to the point where court cases involving foreign sovereigns are usually dismissed. Compared to
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by throwaway3060 9mo ago
As I said in another comment - you'd see a revolt and joining with the aggressor before one half of the EU would ever ally with Russia.
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by throwaway3060 9mo ago
Yes, just because the Rome statute claims jurisdiction doesn't make it true, if the jurisdiction in question didn't agree. In the US, this has all the legal power of Joe Sixpack declaring legal power, or a Russian court. If the IC
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by throwaway3060 9mo ago
You severely underestimate the level of animosity between half the EU and Russia. They would revolt if the other half tried to openly ally with Russia. The example you gave isn't too surprising if one believes authoritarians attract au
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by throwaway3060 9mo ago
There is no circumstance under which a unified EU would temporarily ally with Russia against the US.
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by throwaway3060 9mo ago
They don't want the precedent established. Same reason why uninvolved parties in US courts submit "amicus briefs" - the precedent from a case may affect them down the line.
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by throwaway3060 9mo ago
IIRC, the prosecutor on the ICC responded to the sanctions by suggesting that they could charge individuals interfering with the court with obstruction. Which, as far as US sanctions are concerned, they definitely don't have the jurisd
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by throwaway3060 9mo ago
The US does not recognize such an argument. If that is the argument being made, then no wonder the US issued sanctions; it would perceive such a precedent as a threat to its sovereignty.
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by throwaway3060 9mo ago
The US is not a signatory of the Rome statute. The ICC has no jurisdiction over the US, and any scenario where it claims it does would be an abuse of power.
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by throwaway3060 10mo ago
Nowhere on Google or Wikipedia is there any suggestion that the word "Pennsyltucky" can ever include the urban parts of Pennsylvania.
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by throwaway3060 11mo ago
I did write: > Most people hate it. Not exactly an endorsement. If your pitch is that socialism means more places work like the liquor stores, you'll be creating a lot of capitalists.
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by throwaway3060 11mo ago
In this regard, yes it is; the biggest reasons they keep it around are the jobs it provides and the money the state makes off of it. In return, residents get low prices but less choice, and in some areas, poor access. Most people hate it. O
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by throwaway3060 11mo ago
That's because liquor stores originated from an earlier incarnation of the culture wars. That was a long time ago, and I don't think anyone seriously believes in that justification now, but the inertia remains.
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by throwaway3060 11mo ago
If you're genuinely open to this conversation - the Soviet Union funded many of the world's labor movements, giving it varying amounts of influence on them. Influence which it sometimes used to spread talking points of its own cho
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by throwaway3060 11mo ago
Doesn't this also apply in reverse? How many supporters of Mamdani acknowledge the groups that this choice will potentially harm? I am instead seeing people usually get defensive and downplay the potential harm on the more controversia
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by throwaway3060 11mo ago
Making it about "sides" is exactly why politics is as toxic as it is today. Is it inconceivable that one could look at the candidates and, without being a billionaire, decide that Mamdani is not a candidate they want to bet their
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
I start talking about historical Kremlin propaganda campaigns, and you accuse me of antisemitic language. Interesting. Did you have anything to say on the actual points I raised?
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Then why is it that self-proclaimed "anti-zionists" use the exact same talking point as those antisemites back then? It is difficult to ever unsee that what you call "the global consensus" was invented decades ago in t
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
That conflation was made by antisemites first, many decades ago. That is simply historical fact, whether people know it or not. In that time and place antizionism was a barely concealed excuse for straight antisemitism; it didn't actua
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Not every antisemitic comment is going to contain the word 'Jews'; the art of being antisemitic without such overt references is a long-honed one that few are aware the totality of. Unfortunately, today is also the one day of the
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
If this was how the world worked, we'd all be using Athenian democracy. There are plenty of things the whole world once believed that turned out to be wrong.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
And what is your proposal for those with no other country of origin - either because they were born in Israel, were ethnically cleansed by their previous country, or their previous country no longer exists?
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
I'll bite - disclaimer that I'm not the person you replied to. If you look at comparable situations throughout history - urban warfare - Gaza doesn't really stand out as an outlier. It is tragic that urban warfare is usually

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