I am getting very tired of people blaming “private equity” for changing consumer behavior.
Private equity didn’t degrade the quality of the clothes you buy, ultra fast fashion and online shopping where you sort by low price, then buy clothes without ever actually touching them did that.
Look, I think the correct way to view this whole submarine thing is to ask it this way.
Are the Iranians currently under any obligation whatsoever not to sink a troop transport in the Mediterranean carrying U.S. troops right now if they could?
A corollary to this, it would be a legitimate use of force, not terrorism, for Iranian regular forces to strike a US Navy base (including Newport), or the Pentagon.
The laws of armed conflict are reasonably clear on the restrictions on a national warship firing on a national warship of an opposing combatant that is not carrying ammunition for its main armament.
Namely: there aren’t any.
There isn’t any requirement for immediate threat or anything similar.
The rule is you are required to rescue survivors if you are *capable of doing so* and to be honest the evidence that the IRIN ship was unarmed was very flimsy.
*smol hug*
It's ok to simply condemn a military action as immoral without even questioning whether or not it's illegal. It can be immoral, condemnable, and unambiguously wrong without being illegal!
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It literally didn't.
Disney, Activision, Ben Stiller, and others just need to class action sue the White House so they stop posting cringe already.
Anyways, torpedoing an enemy warship isn't a war crime, but in this case it was an immoral action because the entire war is immoral, we should specifically not launch wars of choice for no reason specifically because any war will always entail atrocities, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
for the bajillionth time it is entirely possible to say "yes this was bad and dumb and pointless and effectively killing people for content is evil" and also acknowledge it was not in any way shape or form a LOAC violation
1) My friend was ignorant and I successfully dissuaded them.
2) Candace Owens is wrong and gross about everything.
okay cool but that's not what Candace Owens is about
I feel obliged to point out that the continuation of the Japanese monarchy was secured *after* the unconditional surrender.
We've got plenty of things we can prosecute these guys for. "A warship sank another warship during a war" isn't one of them, and doesn't have to be
Also, the American Government can't even clearly decide what it's war goals are! They're both evil and stupid!
NYC old money blackballed Trump for years because he was a classless, tasteless boor, & every day he demonstrates they were right to do it. The people's house, now featuring all the sophistication of a Vegas limousine
I also responded by pointing out that I am a left-liberal critic of Israel, and the fact that we've been friends for years, helped get my argument (don't listen to Candace Owens!) across.
Still, as you say, it's awful.
One of my friends* said he found Candace Owens takes on Israel reasonable and I had to spend ten minutes over pints explaining why no, they're not reasonable.
*A friend who is *not* right-wing.
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Christ, no wonder our world-beating aviation industry collapsed.
I think the biggest mistake outsiders have about Israel and Palestine is assuming everyone in or connected to the region hates each other for stupid reasons when in fact they hate each other for pretty good ones that are very hard to undo.
I maintain that simply arresting Elon musk and making a real example of him is the quickest way to global stability
I've not been able to listen to the episodes about the 4th Crusade.
1) what revolution?
2) why are you quoting Napoleon?
They should be villanised because they're fucking idiots.
Whay did he prove? What did he accomplish? What did he change?
JACK FOR NEW YORK Jack Schlossberg @JBKSchlossberg x.com Today is the official launch of the FIX IT NOW petition. I'll be going across the city in a petition drive to make public housing safer, cleaner and stronger. SAY NO TO THE DEMOLITION - The Elliot Chelsea + Fulton Houses are in my neighborhood - repairs, not the wrecking ball !!
Jack Schlossberg is now going full NIMBY and fighting against a plan to rebuild a dilapidated NYCHA campus with even more affordable housing and guaranteed brand new homes for every current NYCHA tenant.
What a joke this guy is
Ethnic states, if not creating ethnicity as such, certainly set the the regulations and boundaries of their desired ethnic communities.
Perhaps constantly testing women would be a better way of putting it.
It's still insanely degrading and unseemly.
