Goebbels-lite needs a short drop and a sudden stop.

If it was about drugs, Orange Hitler wouldn’t have pardoned Balsonaro. It’s about oil and enriching his corporate money fountain.

Sounds an awful lot like we need to act before they do.

The tree of liberty, and all that.

By comparison, the cost to eradicate world hunger by 2030 would be $93 billion a year, and I can guarantee not a penny of those trillions will EVER help a poor person.

And?

Please point me to a single comment I’ve made on any post in the last 24 hours that indicates, in any way, that I don’t consider the arbitrary abduction of the head of a foreign government to be a serious breach of international law.

You cannot.

What I won’t let slide without argument are false equivalencies, half-truths, or misrepresentations of law.

When horrible shit happens is the time for more accuracy and specificity, not less.

Maybe they should.

He should have died of a massive coronary during The Apprentice tapings.

This is America’s 1938 moment. The nations of the world need to push back hard.

If this were about drugs (or they even cared that we believe it’s about drugs) he wouldn’t have pardoned Balsonaro.

Someone needs to catch Trump and give him la chancla.

Oh so sorry. I guess I’ll just sit quietly in front of my propaganda box and not try to leave the fascist hellscape my country has turned into.

All political movements start with local activism. If I want New England to be free, it starts with me at the town level.

Have fun doing nothing. I’m sure that engenders a real feeling of hope deep down in your jibblies.

Again, Noriega surrendered after 2 weeks, he wasn’t kidnapped the same night as the invasion started.

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Personally, I’m quite ready for an independent New England. We only get back 80% of what we contribute in taxes and manufacturing.

For me personally, it’s the statement of fact without sources. This is the era of AI and social disinformation. “Trust me, bro!” carries even less weight now than ever.

Don’t get me wrong, even though Venezuela doesn’t deserve US aggression, Maduro is still a shady conman and I wouldn’t put it past him to sell out his country.

But I won’t believe it just because someone said it was true.

It’d be nice, but I can’t see a country that has a Hague Invasion Plan to prevent any American from ever being tried by the ICC just, you know, giving that up.

Dis you reply before my edit?

It might be the case that war should be illegal, but it isn’t. International law delineates just and unjust conflict, and when talking about real-world war rather than theoreticals, they must be viewed in light of existing laws, not what we want the laws to be.

9/11 was an attack.

No foreign forces occupied territory of the United States, which would be the criteria for an invasion.

These are all well-established definitions in the legality of war.

Edit- and before we take the pacifist “there should be no legal war” approach, that may be so, but we live in a world where international law delineates just and unjust war, and applies strict definitions to do so, so when discussing conflict happening in the real world and not theoretically, it must be done within the confines of its practical definitions.

You know what, you got me on that one. I had forgotten about Hawaii. We definitely did those people dirty.

You’re conflating guilt or culpability with level of military involvement.

Did they result in equivalent loss of life? Damage to property? Commitment of forces on both sides?

One is a literal invasion. The other is missiles hitting fishing boats. Both are disgusting. Both are wrong.

But you cannot say that they are an equivalent level of military involvement.