No, it means they were ONLY held accountable because they lost the war.
Nobody prosecuted Churchill for Dresden
No, it means they were ONLY held accountable because they lost the war.
Nobody prosecuted Churchill for Dresden
People’s take on this stuff always seems so naive to me. All war ever can be viewed as an attempt to arrest the leader of another group for “crimes”. When you get arrested… that means you lost the war. Winning a war means you didn’t get arrested.
The ICC is such a silly stupid waste of human attention. It’s like an idea that children came up with after watching Star Trek. It has no utility whatsoever for our species. We fight, we have winners and losers. If you start a fight with somebody stronger than you, you are gonna have a bad time. If you start a fight with someone weaker than you, others will think you are dishonorable. That doesn’t mean you get arrested.
I was agreeing with you and being a little sarcastic. Of course you are right, there is nothing genetic about it.
There is very little incentive for native English speakers to learn a second language because English is far and away the most popular second language.
Which I’m sure is a contributing factor to the complete lack of investment in second language education the anglophone world.
Amazingly native English speakers the world over seem to have this genetic predisposition! All of us just can’t seem to get it together when it comes to becoming multilingual.
OR… maybe it comes from being born into mastery of the language everyone else on earth is trying to learn. I get three words in Spanish out before my conversation partner asks to switch to English. What am I gonna do? Stamp my feet and demand I get to practice my hobby and deny them the opportunity to work on a valuable career skill. Nah. We’ll speak in English.
Your ancestors (assuming you are British) created a global language hegemony. My ancestors moved from southern Italy to the US and learned their language.
I’m not sure there are realistic strategies for the region that would be similar. Who is going to take over administration of Gaza when Hamas is out? Israel is. Germans didn’t hate British people. They did not spend generations teaching their children that Americans were subhuman scum. Your average German was able to snap out of the delusion easily. You and I both know that isn’t a plausible reality in Gaza.
I’m not saying there is a need for genocide. But Hamas could agree to terms tomorrow and the war would end. Then it would start again. There can be no peace in that place. Not while both peoples live there. Maybe when Iran builds nukes? MAD is pretty high price to pay but it might sober everyone up a little. Hard pill to swallow.
Ha, I roasted you for having the good sense to let somebody else handle some of this stuff for you.
Nobody in crazy rabbit hole club is allowed to do anything the easy way!!
I definitely did not claim it was braking privacy. As far as I can tell it was just querying an update server but for some reason it was doing it with such frequency (hundreds a minute for hours out of the day) that I deemed it was broken and that the OS was not managed well.
Other people took a more suspicious view but mostly they just lost my trust that they had any business running a system on my network. If you google around you can get more nuanced takes I don’t actually know if they ever fixed it.
HAOS is a managed operating system, which is perfect for people who want to automate their home but don’t want to manage a Linux machine. It’s a little wild to me to see a person in this community advocating a managed OS. Like, what are we even doing here??
I killed HAOS and set it up in docker because it was phoning home a lot. Sometimes there were hundreds of dns queries a minute to HA servers. No thanks.
I wasn’t suggesting these folks are fighting the good fight. Just that once you start taking over the government you aren’t really a street gang anymore, you are a revolutionary force.
To me at least the word rebel does not mean good guy, it means a person bent on the usurpation of state power. That’s it. A gang is a group of criminals. They can be both, but it sure seems like gang is the less important descriptor.
I really don’t have a deep knowledge of what is going on here but I am curious about the language we are using. Why “gangs” and not “rebels” or something similar? Seems like these groups are attempting to wrest control of the state. Anybody who has a richer perspective want to help me understand it better?
I had this conversation a thousand times in 2003. Felt like talking into the void. Everybody in this country just wanted to watch the bombs go off.
China seemed like paradise for business. A billion upwardly mobile consumers and cheap ass labor too! The Chinese gov was happy to welcome all the foreign investment but there was a catch: foreign companies were never going to get access to the Chinese consumer. Further, any IP that touched Chinese shores was going to be stolen by the CCP.
All that was manageable but the Chinese economy isn’t what it used to be and now it is finally time to cut bait.
The 21st century geopolitical boundaries are getting weird!!
Like who would have thought that India ends up with the Russians and Iranians and Pakistan ends up with “the west”.
Get your popcorn folks, the next 20yrs are gonna be some wild shit to watch. Putins ability to spread human suffering around the globe is fascinating and terrifying. We are all dancing to his music right now.
Just finally blocked this account after seeing unhinged shit one too many times. I think lemmy will be a better place if I don’t see their comments.
Bingo. Putin is using every geopolitical lever he has to destabilize the world. 10/6 was an op. This Venezuela crap is an op. Sucks how effective it is at exploiting democracy.
Everyone made fun of mitt Romney when he claimed Putin was americas greatest enemy on the debate stage in ‘12. Dudes got a lot of problems but he was right about that shit.
No true Scotsman amiright!!
Read the dudes Wikipedia page, investigate the party and Hugo Chavez. They are autocrats like most other socialists/communists who hold any power. But they seem to be legit leftists
Maduro is a socialist. He is an ally of Putin and a strong supporter of Palestinian freedom.
The world isn’t so simple as you pretend it is. Conquest is not solely a right wing hobby.
It’s pretty frustrating to see how the Ruso/Iranian axis was able to apply violence in exactly the right way to get exactly what they wanted. Everyone would play their part.
NATO weakened by disagreement about support for Israel. Western left angry and disengaged, leading to right wing (Russia friendly) parties succeeding in elections. Decreased focus on Ukraine.
All it cost was thousands of other people’s lives!
Israel was not the only party being baited and were not the only ones who got hooked.
Avg snowfall in London is 5cm or thereabouts. It’s a pretty mild climate despite the high latitude. There is a pretty big risk that cold melt water from the thawing Greenland ice pack will disrupt the gulf stream currents that warm Northern Europe and leave them with a much colder climate.
Heavy snow in the UK in NOV is slightly alarming. Though it could just as easily be an isolated weather event.
Anybody who tries to arrest him will be at war with Israel and probably the US and probably a lot of other nations. They will break their treaty with ICC before they start that war and everyone fucking knows it. Why do we pretend?