• tomiant@programming.dev
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    “Sieg heil!”

    “Saying that makes you a nazi.”

    “I don’t give a shit what you call it.”

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    So now killing people that poison americans is OK? So all the CEO’ of major companies that pollute are legitimate targets? Is that what vance is saying?

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      I don’t know about you, but to me it sounds like a valid legal argument that Luigi Mangione’s lawyers could potentially use?

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      Yeah, pretty crazy precedent if you applied it to America. So all oil companies employees are fair game along with chemical employees and the majority of people in the food/alcohol/tobacco industry. Now that I think about, it is justification to eliminate about a third of the US population.

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    I’m pretty sure if someone gave Vance a gun, he would start shooting the cleaning staff at the WH. He sounds like a coked out lunatic who hears voices making fun of him.

    This is why I’m not convinced when people say maga won’t fall in line behind this guy. They want blood, they don’t care how it’s spilled. They’re foaming at the mouth rabid for it, and Vance promises to deliver.

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    Your daily reminder that as a matter of fact, international law means pretty much nothing. It’s funny to me that people still keep bringing it up.

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      It never meant anything to the USA and other imperialists, it is regularly used to justify action against those outside the “international community”

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        The thing about justifications is that you can just make them up. There’s no international law against hypocrisy.

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          Only tangibly related but

          All laws are made up, no matter how much your try force authoritarian rule people will always have the the inherent freedom to oppose.

          The sooner we realize the natural anarchy of individuals the sooner we can replace build in forced compliance with build in aligned mutual interests.

          People who have no interest in “committing wrong” usually don’t commit too many wrongs.

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          International law only springs into existence when it’s convenient for the “international community”

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            You could say that about any law, not just “international”.

            Look at how laws are applied in your country and you’ll probably find them disproportionately applied against the poor over the rich.

            We can’t just set and forget laws. If you want them enforced justly, you need to be active in your political environment and elect people who will do that.

            If you want international law applied to the US, you need to elect politicians who would be willing to push for sanctions against them until they comply.

            Or if you’re American, vote for politicians who actually respect the international community.

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              That’s a really naive take TBH, bourgeois “democracies” are designed in such a way that whatever you do, in virtually all cases you can only elect representatives of capital

              Electoralism and reformism are impotent at handling systemic problems and injustises

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                I’m not denying the game is rigged, but what’s your suggestion?

                Skip to violence out of laziness or simply comply in advance?

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      If that’s how you feel, then all laws mean pretty much nothing. The only reason any of it matters, is if we all agree to abide by them. Technically, anyone can commit any crime, at any time. The rest of us need to hold those people accountable, or as you said…none of it matters.

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        Laws aren’t a matter of public consensus (although public consensus is one way of determining what should be illegal). They’re meaningful if men with guns show up and use force against someone who breaks them.

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        Invading somebody else’s nether lands is certainly on brand for the prick, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind having an excuse.

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    The problem they’re faced with is a drug epidemic and the solution they come up with is mass murder.

    Obviously very sane and rational.

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    The US has always been this parasitic, lawless, warmongering shithole of a country. Bush did it, Obama did it, Biden did it, Trump did it. Every single president before them did it. As someone who despises the US hegemony, I’m glad this administration is showing the world what the US has always been. This will just make it easier for us across the globe to discredit the US lackeys in our individual countries.

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    It’s alright. He won’t be but a small blemish on the blotted history of the US

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    Laughts on them. If the flow of cocaine would stop, politics and the rich would be hit the hardest.

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      You’ve made the mistake of thinking that this is about killing members of a drug cartel instead of killing people they decide to accuse of being members of a drug cartel

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        Whether those people on the boat were members of a cartel or not is not the point, it already is piracy and a war crime.

        My point is that the stated ultimate goal is to fight drug cartels, and that would hit certain circles the hardest. Especially with cocaine, which is a drug predominantly used in richer circles.

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    James Donald Bowman is a sad sack of shit and the literal incarnation of his douchebag father.

    He tries to escape his given name, but I won’t let him, I’ll deadname him until he (or myself) is dead.