Sometimes I day dream how cool free China would actually be

It’s a flaw of empires in general. They become this pervasive machine where ends always justify the means and there’s just too much power and slow rare of change. Just a bad system no matter how you look at it.

Yay CCP is slightly less cruel than a medieval monarch

But that’s not conservatism per se, it’s just fascism

I feel like “conservatism” has lost all rationality. I do get that it’s totally possible that “not rocking the boat” could be a good solution to society’s progress for some niches but 99% of the time it’s absolutely irational.

In fact, most conservative issues like “traditional family unit”, “gun freedom” are better approached through progressive frame like incentives to celebrate local culture and protecting human rights like rights to self defence - these are fundamentally progressive thoughts that actually solve the issue in a real meaningful way rather than just hiding behind in-action.

I really try to understand conservatism as a thought movement but there seems to be no actual thought behind it. I genuinely don’t get it.

Conservatives need brand new online communities that do not push them farther into the brain rot.

That’s an oxymoron as conservatism is already a brain rot

Nice.

Hot take but none of these admins should be anonymous. If you don’t want the responsibility/risk then let someone else do it. Crazy how the biggest subreddits are being ran by secret groups coordinating outside of reddit itself.

No that’s simply not true

I’m not a lawyer but afaik the sanctioned ships are treated kinda like “legal piracy” as country can board it even in international waters if it knows it’s performing a sanctioned operation like transferring goods to a place it’s not allowed to or the ship is stateless or sneaky (no transponder etc).

At the end of the day these legalities are purely made up to satisfy treaties rather than ethics or rationality so it’s silly to try to look for rational meaning here.

Lol only on lemmy.megalosers you can find Hezbolah defenders. Go away troll.

That’s not how these types sanctions work though. It’s much more broad than “you can’t pass our waters” and it’s perfectly legal to board sanctioned ships in international waters.

AFAIK this is legal though I care much more about ethics than legalities as citizen of neither of these countries.

I feel like people are taking the bait here in siding with Iran and Hezbolah just to spite Trump. Both things can be bad and it’s kinda important to be woke to these games rather than blindly oppose everything.

People keep underestimating Trump and his stooges. Sure they are stupid but they do have a plan and they do scheme.

The ship was already sanctioned in 2022 tho

Yes, they should but Ukraine’s drones are already on it.

I hate trump as anyone else here but reading into this it looks like an absolutely legal and normal procedure?

The ship in question named Skipper was already sanctioned since 2022 for transporting Iranian oil to fund Hezbolah. So minus conflict escalation with Venezuela this seems like a good thing? Hezbolah is an incredibly evil terrorist organization and cutting off it’s funding is good.

Nice.

So fighting inequality with more inequality? Doesn’t sound like that would work no matter how you justify it.

I’m a feminist and I honestly don’t understand this mentality. Mixing genders in all activities is good for our society, period.

So? Are we supposed to have a fair, equal society or are we playing these games of measuring each other’s cocks?