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Maggoty ,

Biden knew this was coming. He failed to get ahead of it in any meaningful way. Now he's tied to a war criminal.

And for the record, the prosecutor did the same for Hamas leadership for a October 7th. This isn't some anti Israel hit job.

Maggoty ,

Oh? What do you call billions of dollars in military aid?

Maggoty ,

Fucked around and found out. I wonder if the EU would arrest Netanyahu?

Maggoty ,

On the other hand, Israel is not Russia. Netanyahu's vacation options effectively just dwindled to Israel and the US, with no layovers. The Hamas guys are already living as fugitives so not much changes there.

Maggoty ,

That is Genocide, the UN tries not to use the general term whenever possible, and instead use the specific method of genocide. That way it's a lot harder to No True Scotsman the issue. but If I remember correctly they also charged Extinction and Murder. Then in the supporting documents they talk about systematic bombing and creation of a famine.

Maggoty ,

International law gets weird. Tradition is absolutely a legitimate way for something to get recognized. That works because of Sovereignty and the intense political nature of anything between countries. So basically, if someone got an Israeli to the Hague, then the Netherlands could point at the decades of precedent for the moral high ground in refusing to release them. Whether that works depends on politics and what people think. So just because we didn't sign the paper does not mean we can resist it forever. If the world wants to head in that direction, the best we can do is dig our feet in and make it take longer.

And no sane US president would use the Hague Invasion Act. It's an open question if the military would even follow the order. that would require invading a NATO ally with strong defense systems tied into their neighbors. It would be a great way to obliterate our world standing in one fell swoop.

Maggoty ,

The US codified it into a domestic law because it doesn’t believe its should be beholden to any law higher than its domestic ones

Well that's not true. Our Constitution clearly places treaties above domestic law.

Maggoty ,

Technically any member state, but they wouldn't refuse him if a non member state arrested him too. And I say technically because there's a few member states that support him and would likely not arrest him.

Maggoty ,

At this point they need to gag the man and have surrogates stump for him.

Maggoty ,

Whoa now, but 10 cents for 15 people is only 3,000 dollars. Miranda never said it was a gold plated raise. And let's be honest, the tipped staff were never a part of it to begin with. This was just (checks notes) supervisors and management.

(Tip sharing was never about anything good. Either you're overpaying cooks and hosts by giving them normal pay with tips, while servers are on tipped minimum; or you've put everyone on tipped minimum.)

Maggoty ,

Oh but they would if they could! I can see it now, a national restaurant chain that only does mixed zoning restaurants. Apartments are staff only and cheaper than market. But your boss is also your landlord. Now when workers "churn" you can have them evicted and taken to court for debt too!

Maggoty ,

Whoa there, I do believe that's heresy in the United States. Punishment is a range day with someone entirely too enthusiastic about esoteric gun details like barrel twist.

Maggoty ,

At best that translates to confidence courses, networking with other kids, and learning to disconnect. Which can be great. But if that was the case they'd advertise it. At worst, (and people are trying to escape so ... yeah) it's a crash course in manhood type place where they think Hollywood's version of basic military training is too soft.

Maggoty ,

If you need the promise of punishment to be good, then you're not a good person.

Maggoty ,

Same kind of reaction as when a grenade gets thrown into a room. We just have video footage of it now. It's a fucked way to go, but they could have avoided it...

Maggoty ,

People wouldn't click on it if it didn't infer the police did the shooting, right?

Maggoty ,

Yeah. But they knew. This kind of implication is an art form these days.

Maggoty ,

Yeah, my words aren't always the best.

Maggoty ,

Oh no. That was Kentucky. Notably they don't have the ten commandments in their classrooms for some weird reason. I guess we're going to find out if that SCOTUS ruling still applies.

Maggoty ,

And responding to every comment with ad hominems is the mark of a rational organization known for critical thinking.

Maggoty ,

Oh? Where's the genocide? Point it out. You guys started this talking point a month ago and nobody has given even an attempt at rationalizing this talking point. You just sound like the guy on the street with a cardboard sign ranting at god. And even better there's a real one going on right now that Biden is supporting. This wouldn't be you trying your hand at some Good Old Projection would it?

Maggoty ,

Sometimes it is. Sometimes you have to push it off the cliff.

Maggoty ,

Oh shit. Looks like you're saying it right now. I've never equated the two. And yet here you are swearing at me. Now I don't scare easily and I don't let people on the internet tell me how to vote. But this ain't how you get more votes. Fear mongering and threats have never worked for the democrats. So the only "fucking idiots" I see here are you guys, pushing voters away.

Maggoty ,

There is a side that could be worth supporting. But you're making very hard to do so. Biden could win the election today by cutting off military aid to Israel. Instead he has goons out here threatening everyone. So far I'm not sure what I get for supporting him. You guys talk about plan 2025, but this kind of bullshit used to just be Republican stuff. So from where I'm sitting it looks like the DNC is giving up on Democracy too. It's certainly giving up on listening to it's voters.

Maggoty ,

Yup the occasional murder by racist is 100 percent comparable to a man made famine and campaign of ethnic cleansing by military units.

Maggoty ,

Democracy in the party flew the coop when we didn't have a real primary this year. Having a single candidate is not democracy. It's a rubber stamp oligarchy.

Maggoty ,

Oh no, I mean that in a very real way. There's people available to help you if you want. This level of aggressiveness over someone else not supporting your group is not healthy.

Maggoty ,

Show me then. I'm not going to make spurious accusations.

Maggoty ,

That's a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is meant to support and provide context for the others. So taking it all out of context isn't helpful in decoding it's meaning.

Maggoty ,

It certainly wasn't a good thing.

Maggoty ,

Still no evidence of any genocidal plans. Just more mud at the wall.

Maggoty ,

Go ahead. Don't be surprised if someone shows me actual evidence and I change my position. It's how rational people operate.

Maggoty ,

You're still not getting it. I don't care about you. I'm not going to vote either way because of you. But being an ass doesn't attract voters. That's all I'm trying to tell you.

Maggoty ,

I never said democracy as a whole was destroyed. I said the party is looking for people to rubber stamp it's oligarchs. If you want to be dismissive that's fine but at least keep up.

Maggoty ,

You don't care so much you responded to someone telling us their experiences with vitriol.

Maggoty ,

Unfortunately that's not going to work. Biden's biggest donors were pissed he even paused the 2,000 pound bombs. Voting out the republicans isn't going to purge this rot. We've worshipped at the altar of money for too long and now we're going to pay the price. As the old question goes, "What happens when the lords have more power than the king?"

Maggoty ,

libertarian leftists? That's an oxymoron.

Maggoty ,

Nah, the kids know the score.

Maggoty ,

Oh no we can't do the right thing now! We did the wrong thing 100 years ago and the rules of consistency mean we must keep doing the wrong thing no matter what!1111!!

Maggoty ,

Well they didn't listen when we did vote so fuck em. And no, participating in Capitalism is not an endorsement of capitalism. Never was, never will be, because participation is enforced.

Maggoty ,

I helped run the phone lines for Biden in 2020. And what did I get? I got shit on. I got to watch my country participate in a fucking genocide. You don't get to support that and then claim it's some radical minority that's the problem. The majority of non republicans want him to at least condition aid if not stop it all together at this point. All he has to do is follow the already written laws he's been ignoring.

Maggoty ,

There are more jews against the Israeli government at this point than for it. Yes he'd need to walk a line but that's true of any campaign. The line he's on right now sure as hell ain't working.

Maggoty ,

The best time to plant a tree was yesterday. The next best time is today. As you point out, this doesn't get better if we keep doing the same thing. So now is the time.

Maggoty ,

Nope it's purely an ideological conflict. If you're a libertarian then you don't support government, you believe the free market can work without regulation. Which leaves us with Anarcho-Capitalism. And at that point what amount of social justice or equality or anything are we achieving? It's going to be kind of hard to form a union when Shell Motor Corp troops execute anyone found with a vote card.

Maggoty ,

Meme rhetoric at it's best folks. We can't have a real discussion because this guy has a "bingo".

Maggoty ,

Well yes, there's more than one thing going on at a time. This isn't a TV Show.

Maggoty ,

That doesn't make sense. Are you saying corporations should be allowed to have soldiers on staff?

Maggoty ,

Not stopping for a traffic stop would be obstructing the police or something. Or, and this is super duper crazy, we could just take their license plate and send them the bill for speeding. It's a civil offense. There's no reason to get a police officer involved at all. If they're driving erratically then it falls under the same heading as running away from any other crime. The erratic driving is already the crime. There's no reason other than, "peasants must obey" to outlaw fleeing. They've already committed a crime and already need to be apprehended. Making them double need to be apprehended doesn't help society in any way.

Rape isn't a human experience. There's no "rape reflex" in our heads. That's jumping to an extreme and illogical.

Bodycams being used for corrupt purposes by a corrupt force is not a micro technicality, it's the entire fucking point.

And nope, they will accuse you of crushing them while you were waiting for the cop to run your plates. An empty container is assumed to have been fully drunk while driving.

They don't get their overtime by doing nothing. Only "earners" get the perks. And the courts and prosecutors are partial to the police because they need them to do their jobs and the police have power over them too. When Phoenix City officials in Arizona decided to not renew the Maricopa County Sheriff's contract because of all the shit Sheriff Arpaio was doing he straight up harrassed them. Then he tried to do it to the Maricopa County board and several prosecutors as well. It's only because it's an elected position that he was taken care of eventually. And that's just the one I saw personally. These cases are all over the place. If you look up Judges sending kids to Juvie for kickbacks you have to specify which scandal you mean.

The system is not on your side.

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