@brooke yeah, agreed. I think the way to slice this Gordian knot is with PWAs, but maybe there's another trick. Regardless, it feels like a very parallel struggle with federated social networks.
When the best thing your defenders can say about your warrant for crimes against humanity is that it was announced alongside the wrong people and should have been done separately, well, that's not really a ringing endorsement.
I heard a speech by you at a dinner last night about the War in Gaza where you insisted that "it's not genocide."
Let me first point out that if you have to say that about anything, it's probably really bad. You don't have to say that about a baseball game or a Christmas parade.
@evan I don't doubt it but it seems short-sighted at best. Trump's interest in the region - insofar it exists - certainly doesn't seem to include Palestinians' rights. As cruel as it is to say, there are larger issues in play in this election IMO, namely the state of US democracy and civil rights, and the security of Europe among others. Biden has his flaws, sure. But I'm confident that a Biden administration is going to be much better than a Trump one, which I don't even want to think about.
@titaniumbiscuit Genocide is a jus cogens -- an imperative of the highest order. There is no higher priority. We must stop it at all costs. "Let Biden have a little genocide, he's a pretty good guy otherwise" is an unacceptable position. If you'd like to try to change someone's mind, I recommend talking to your own government officials about helping to find a path to peace.
I don't like that the Biden White House always treats human rights issues in the Gaza War as just too redonkulous for words. It's insulting to everyone's intelligence and inconsistent with other formal and informal statements. "There are problems with the way the Gaza War is being handled but they don't rise to the level of war crime" is a clearer and more honest position statement.
@evan Won't participate in that poll, too much trouble to put international law into different perspectives: what about indigenous ppl with completely different culture, who did not participate in creating those "international laws"?
How can they be judged equally when their culture is not even known to "us" who agree to international laws?
And: do we have the right to force other cultures into laws, that were created mostly by a capitalistic western world?
One thing it covered that I found very interesting is that the guest, Professor Aslı Ü. Bâli, pointed out that the current world order optimizes for peace over security.
The UN's structure gives nuclear powers the chance to veto any international process in the security council, rather than having them veto it with bombs on the battlefield.
@evan Did you know that there's a significant Irish legacy in Buenos Aires? One of the largest Rugby teams in Buenos Aires is called Hurling Club - one of their former scrum halves was the great-great-great-grandson of Galway born Patrick Lynch, although he was better known later as Che Guevara. A Mayoman called William "Guillermo" Brown founded the Argentine Navy. And there are around 650,000 Argentinians of Irish descent!
It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.
Thanks especially to people building software, making art, telling their personal stories, inviting friends or organizations, joining groups, making jokes, thinking hard, making connections, liking, reading, listening, watching, administering, moderating, supporting, sharing, being kind, making friends, answering questions, and otherwise laying down the careful and intricate network of connections between people, software and content that is slowly but surely changing the world.
@askDNA@evan also the audacity to be like "I posted mundane stuff and it didn't start a shitstorm, but as soon as I post controversial stuff that's threatening to destroy people's livelihoods, everyone is all "hey that's controversial" and people should be nicer to me" is bad faith acting.