• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    11 hours ago

    I hate the relatively recent trend to discredit all efforts aimed at establishing some sort of global legislation.

    Like everything the UN and WHO and ICC did since WW2 is “woke”.

    It’s worse than being conservative (which, literally, means you want to preserve the status quo). They want to undo things. They want to go back 100 years.

  • Katana314@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Do we have a term for people who violate the Geneva Conventions in times of peace? Some new “twelfth circle of hell” type of moniker.

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      9 hours ago

      I might make an exception for Carter, though his unwillingness to be a bastard was problematic in its own way.

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        I’m sorry, but Americans need to confront the reality of their presidency. And as an Australian we are still seeing the effects of Carters horrible policies play out in our region.

        Carter was responsible for funding and doubling the amount of weapons sold to Indonesia during the genocide in East Timor. And his administration enabled the ongoing human rights abuses of many SEA US funded dictatorships.

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      14 hours ago

      If you weren’t dragged kicking and screaming into the oval office, you’re probably too full of yourself to be good at it.