livus

livus, 6 days ago

I think I see what's happening here. The missing piece of the puzzle is that there are 2 kinds of rights.

"Negative rights" = the right to not have certain things happen to you, aka freedoms. Eg freedom from being assaulted.

"Positive rights" = the right to do/have stuff.

In the case of enslavement, the negative right - to be free from being forced to work, owned, etc is a much more important right than the positive right to own property.

livus, 6 days ago

Your rights end at the point where they infringe on someone else's rights.

Like, it's my right to walk where I want but it's not my right to walk into your house. Because it's your right to own private property.

Secondly, authoritarianism is not about how many people the law affects. It's about style of governance.

livus, 15 hours ago

Great, an equal opportunity genocidist.

/s

livus, 1 day ago

This is the crux of it:

The ICC has 124 state parties, while the United Nations has 193 member states. This disparity makes clear the gap between what the ICC seeks to achieve – namely, universal accountability for international crimes – and what it can practically achieve when it lacks the support of implicated or nonaligned countries.

livus, 1 day ago

This is like cartoon villain level evil at this point.

livus, 3 days ago

dangerous precedent, where the US government shows complete disrespect of international law

With all due respect the US has been in open contempt of international law for the past 20+ years.

Guantanamo for example is completely illegal.

livus, 2 days ago

I don't have a dog in this fight but I do want to point out a flaw in your reasoning. The fediverse is way different than reddit when it comes to karma.

• not all instances have karma

• of those that have it, not all instances federate it

• there isn't a cross-instance hivemind so if your downvotes come from, say, Hexbear it doesn't mean the same thing as say, Lemmy.world

• therefore, where you spend your time affects your various scores

I'm on Kbin which does not federate downvotes. We can only see downvotes if they are from other Kbin accounts, and they're also public. Downvotes from us are often to indicate spam or trolling, but only we can see them.

livus, 3 days ago

Ethnic cleansing is the part where they displace the target population.

Genocide is the part where they kill the target population.

Obviously there's a fair bit of overlap between the two.

livus, 3 days ago

Narrator: "...it was."

livus, 7 days ago

Cool! Tanzania is a country I hope to learn more about. The wildlife is famous but I don't know much about the people and politics.

livus, 10 days ago

Tipping isn't a thing in my country, to the extent that if you left money lying around your room it would most probably still be there when you got back.

Unless maybe you were staying somewhere that gets a lot of tipping tourists.

livus, 3 days ago

Horrible. Some of the comments on this article are using openly genocidal language.

livus, 3 days ago

@protist note this article is about the Republic of the Congo also known as ROC and Congo-Brazzaville, not about the Democratic Republic of Congo also known as DRC and Congo-Kinshassa.

The reason it made headlines is due to Congolese feelings around Rwanda's hostility to DRC and sponsoring of M23 rebels who have invaded it.

It's a bit like how Ukraininans would feel if a neighbouring country was giving territory to Russia.

livus, 4 days ago

Thanks for that visual.

livus, 6 days ago

It isn't "OP's invention" at all, it's the article's title at the time of first publication. Here is the Guardian announcing the article under its original title.

Maybe spend 5 seconds on a basic search before you accuse people of stuff.

Given that the article says the aid will still have to go through an Israeli checkpoint in order to be sent north (where the worst famine is) I will be amazed if the small amount of aid scheduled to come through this pier doesn't suffer the same distribution blockages as other aid.

livus, 6 days ago

“That is something that everybody can see with their own eyes. The killing of aid workers, the targeting of hospitals, the total destruction of the healthcare system, the massive number of civilian casualties, many of whom are women and children,” McManus said. “That does not happen in a context in which the prosecuting army is adhering to international law.”

This is key.

livus, 6 days ago

OP's username should clue you in.

livus, 6 days ago

Aaah look at the length of those legs and that proud little nose.

Back before the Breed Standard for Pugs got out of control.

livus, 7 days ago

When they're trying to discourage someone from raising money to help starving children, is there like, a brief moment where they wonder if they're the bad guy?