[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

To play devil's advocate, leahy law;

...prohibits the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense from providing military assistance to foreign security force units that violate human rights with impunity.

But the fact that Israel is a democracy, suggests there are reprocessions, eg. Netenyahu could lose the election, and even face reprocessions from the next elected leader. So that's not acting "with impunity".

Israel has taken measures to make their genocide look considered (eg. Dropping flyers, naming bombing targets)... And to some extent, anyone wanting to claim they're acting woth impunity (although it's highly unlikely they'll ever see reprocessions) - will have similar issues to those faced at Nuremberg, where the US didn't want to invent laws to accuse them of being guilty of or having violated (as that would look like a kangaroo court, or future crime)...

...and unfortunately, due to the US having it's own patchy human rights record, they avoid being a signatatory to international courts like The Hague.

So yeah, your claim wouldn't be substantiated. It's not that simple, you may as we'll be claiming we can "reform our way our of Capitalism"..... That's a nice idea (as Leahy Law is), but they're just not practically applicable.

Which is why I directed people to the "Rules for Rulers" video (by CPG grey), because it explains these basics to Socialists who basically live in these fantasy land conceptions of politics.

Of course fantasy land conceptions get upvotes, reality checks get downvotes, it's a great system, designed to cause mental stagnation and "apathy through idealism" in the masses.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Sonic was really not the game I thought would come true.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world -5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

That vote was made in the Obama era. There's a 35 billion dollar funding scheme for Israel that's bin full swing.

Stopping it would require a lot of changes across multiple stratas of government and legal procedures.

... it's not as simple as "the president" or "the party" can just stop a long term international set of contracts across industries and government agencies and departments.

The video "Rules for Rulers" by YouTuber CPGGrey covers some of this.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I've heard it said, lawyers and police create criminals, doctors create sick people, politicians create corruption.

Don't know how true a sentiment that is, but I can see some true aspects to it.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Just to clarify, the majority of active pedophiles are opportunistic, they go after those they have access to.

This is why every industry that has greater access to children, also has an greater number of pedophile scandals... It's a problem, and yeah, giving someone direct access via a computer to a child's digital life is a form of access that might be used opportunistically by such people.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Swords really ruined stone spear heads, sharpened sticks, and clubbing people to death.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Ha, this guy doesn't think one party authoritarian states have political prisoners.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Just roll over lift the bllanket a little, and pee into the kiddie pool you keep next to your bed for late night peeing, and early morning foot baths, don't people know it prevents athletes foot?

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

You're free to look up these various systems of political punishment. Just answering 'theyre conspiracy theories ' isn't a convincing argument.

You have to win people to your cause if you want your systems to win.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago

There's always more than one side in a revolution, and there's always massacres.

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