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robinnn, 1 day ago

“Regarding the question of whether or not we’ll continue to provide support to the ICC with respect to crimes that are committed in Ukraine, yes, we continue that work,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a news conference after a virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group on Monday.

Rules-based international order only when the rules benefit us.

robinnn, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

If your country was suddenly invaded and had 1200 mostly civilian, including women and children gunned down in one of your cities, including shooting up a concert, and your country had the means to stop it from happening again, would they?

Ignoring that your country is a settler-colony built upon the land of the displaced people resisting, and that this concert was right next to the fence of a concentration camp housing the repressed native population, that Hamas exists because of Israel, and that Israel’s own helicopters shot up the crowds and their own forces blew up houses killing many of the total, and everything else, I hate this framing.

So that’s the reason. Isreal was attacked with no regard by a country that ran by a group of people after the goal of completely eliminating Isreals existence.

“It is not a war against terror, and not a war against extremists, and not even a war against the Palestinian Authority. These too are forms of avoiding reality. This is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people.

Why do we have to make up a new name for the war every other week, just to avoid calling it by its name. What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy? …the morality of war (yes, there is such a thing) is founded on the assumption that there are wars in this world, and that war is not the normal state of things, and that in wars the enemy is usually an entire people, including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.

They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there”

— Uri Elitzur, former chief of staff and advisor to PM Benjamin Netanyahu; shared by Ayelet Shaked, Israel’s Minister of Justice (2015-2019) and Minister of Interior (2021-2022), in 2015

Read up on the open admissions of Israeli leaders and Zionists. Israel itself exists as a country by eradicating the native population and it will continue to do so to its ability.

But what would you feel your country would be justified to do if they were invaded by surprise like that? Would they make sure it couldn’t happen again? Would you feel it was justified? It may not be a clear yes or no answer, or where a line should be drawn.

If my country were a brutal genocidal state built on the repression of the native population? I’m not denying the Zionist entity is doing everything to keep their state afloat and expand it; their motives are not unknown. But to put me in their shoes as if that justifies anything is ridiculous nonsense that could be applied to numerous scenarios you wouldn’t like.

robinnn, 3 days ago

Even ignoring that these people are mandatorily required to serve in the IOF, there are very few settler-colonial civilians (children, others without agency, and anyways these civilians are only here by the will of the settlers). It’s ridiculous to equate Palestinian civilians with “Israelis” not actively in the IOF when the latter chooses to occupy Palestinian land and displace the natives in the brutal practice that is settler-colonialism.

robinnn, 3 days ago

The term “civilian” has been actively stripped of all meaning when people willfully occupying native land and displacing the population as those natives are slaughtered are included.

robinnn, 4 days ago

Imperialist puppet vetoes fundamentally correct law

robinnn, 4 days ago

Can you also see the bullet heading towards you?

robinnn, 6 days ago

Rule 2

robinnn, 6 days ago

In late October, Israel signed on to a joint statement of concern with more than 50 other governments about alleged Chinese crimes against humanity in its predominantly Muslim Xinjiang region.

LMAO

China is fundamentally opposed to any Israeli military operations, even in self-defense

No such thing?

robinnn, 7 days ago

What history book perchance?

robinnn, 7 days ago

Are we not talking about how American leaders are ignoring climate change?

robinnn, 7 days ago

Bitcoin is NOT dumb. Just say you’re a CCP bot. What time is it in Moscow tankie?

robinnn, 7 days ago

Go to your nearest statue of the hero Stepan Bandera or monument to some other Ukrainian freedom fighter (Jew killer) and look around it. You’ll find something called metal, the same material coins are made out of. So maybe you hate Ukrainian independence?

robinnn, 8 days ago

He’s the lesser evil of the two.

How?

robinnn, 8 days ago

He would be worse for Palestine as he’s unstable.

Fundamentally nonsensical cope.

He would be worse for protesters, as he was during the BLM protests.

Is Biden not personally allowing the brutalization of student protestors and professors who oppose his genocide? Weren’t BLM protestors also beat up by cops under Biden?

He instigated an insurrection and refused to accept the results last time.

Who cares? It never had a chance at succeeding and the results of every US election are near-meaningless.

He’s a man child.

Unlike the adults in the room who build the border wall and immigrant concentration camps with maturity and tact. Trump would not be able to keep Biden’s calm demeanor when enforcing murderous sanctions across the world and throwing Ukrainians into the meat grinder for the MIC and protection of the Nazi terror state as a bulwark against Russia as well as enforcement of US imperialism across the globe.

Trump would probably say something mean about Chinese people while signing tariffs on the PRC to set back green energy transition through negative protectionism.

robinnn, 8 days ago

China is unfairly SUBSIDIZING green energy products. They must be stopped or DEMOCRACY will fall.

robinnn, 9 days ago

According to the Times, Trump is leading Biden in 5 out of 6 battleground states—and there goes the election, our democracy and the world!

Don’t forget the known universe! He definitely wouldn’t be exactly like the president they have now but more rude.

robinnn, 9 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

but in 2020 there was no way I was going to give up even one vote against Trump.

Democrats support Trump and the like in the GOP to have propped up extreme opposition and make you think it’s your own idea to vote for them as the “lesser evil.”

robinnn, 8 days ago

Look at recent history of the other 3rd party runs, they spoiled the election for Gore and Hillary.

HILLARY PERSONALLY TRIED TO GET TRUMP AS THE GOP’S CANDIDATE

robinnn, 8 days ago

and somehow pro-renewables are also bad

Biden just signed into law higher tariffs on green energy products produced in China (where the vast majority are produced) in order to restrict supply and keep up the price of solar panels, EVs, and semiconductors in the US. Biden is building the same border wall Democrats were calling Trump a fascist for demanding in 2016, and expanding the immigrant concentration camps to boot. There’s also the proxy war in Nazified Ukraine where Ukrainians are thrown into the meat grinder for the MIC and the exhaustion of Russia’s resources, the continuation of global US military occupation and debilitating murderous sanctions on the DPRK, Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela. I fail to see where Trump is significantly worse.

robinnn, 8 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

When was racism not normalized in the US? Wrt abortion, as I’m sure you know it was democrats who refused to codify Roe v. Wade and made it all the more easy for it to be torn down, Biden in the first place openly stating he’s not in favor of “abortion on demand.” The reason it wasn’t codified, though, is that it then couldn’t be used as a campaign strategy by the democrats in future elections. As I said earlier in the thread under this post, it’s well-known that Hillary and the DNC attempted to elevate Trump in the GOP as preferred opposition as well as democrats more recently funneling millions of dollars into the election campaigns of Republicans who deny the validity of the 2020 election results because this makes for what they believe is easy competition. It feels ridiculous to have to mention as well that Roe v. Wade was repealed under Biden’s presidency, and if Biden doesn’t have the power to reverse this then what are you campaigning for?

robinnn, 8 days ago

We’re not going to fix racism ever as long as the US exists as a settler-colonial state that keeps the majority of black people in worse conditions and imprisons them en masse. It’s not about rhetoric.

I still find that a lot easier to swallow than the GOPs constant tactics of direct voter suppression though

Don’t you get it? The Democrats are elevating Republicans so that they can do and campaign for these exact things which then motivates you to vote for the “lesser evil.”

For pushing denialists, here’s one source.

robinnn, 9 days ago

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robinnn, 9 days ago

Such a fucking idiotic smug loser. Bill Maher deserves the Joker treatment on live television. It’s not even worthwhile to go over the nonsense he says about not attacking Israel because he doesn’t actually understand what he’s saying. Truly every Bill Maher fan’s brain is just a puddle sloshing around in their heads.

robinnn, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

“The Department of State fully recognizes that it may be necessary at some stage for the United States to take military action if [Taiwan] is to be denied to the communists… Such intervention should be publicly based not on obvious American strategic interests but on principles which are likely to have support in the international community, mainly the principle of self-determination of the [Taiwanese] people” — “Memorandum by the Acting Secretary of State to President Truman”

China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, which the island strongly rejects.

The UN and even the United States also formally recognize Taiwan as a part of the PRC.* There are only a few small countries that recognize Taiwan as a separate entity, and not just a separate entity—there is no “Taiwan” when it comes to governance, but the “Republic of China” with claims to roughly the same territory as the PRC (Reuters acts especially egregiously when they talk about “Taiwan’s navy chief” rather than the chief of the ROC Navy), and so you cannot recognize the governance of Taiwan and the PRC but must accept one over the other, and the PRC has proven its legitimacy at every turn. That’s why this is never mentioned. The West wants a story of China encroaching on an innocent foreign country and the valiant defense of this country by the West.

*They admit this later and allude to the PRC/ROC conflict, and yet write:

Washington[…] is bound by law to provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself and is the island’s most important international backer

Bound by what law? The Taiwan Relations Act passed by US Congress? The article should read: Washington is bound by their own law to provide Taiwan…" It’s like how US leaders constantly talk about the obligation of American leadership in the world as if it wasn’t them that created this “obligation.” Genuine nonsense. For contradictions:

First there’s their word (although it’s been established that the word of the US means nothing): “The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position. It reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves. With this prospect in mind, it affirms the ultimate objective of the withdrawal of all U.S. forces and military installations from Taiwan.”

And second, their signing of the Cairo Declaration (and Potsdam Proclamation which reaffirms this) in which the U.S. and U.K. (and the Soviet Union) recognized that Japan had “stolen from the Chinese" areas including Taiwan, and agreed to ensure that it was liberated and returned to its former status within China—this is also, some would argue, their word and not legally binding, although the US would still have gone back on their word (in this case with the flourish of a signature).

Taipei says the Chinese territorial claims are void as the People’s Republic of China has never governed the island.

This is just tautological drivel.