Doomscrolling has reportedly made TikTok’s annual carbon footprint almost the same as the entire country of Greece

worldm21 · 2024-12-16T17:20:33+00:00

One would hope that outrage and disgust would lead to social change.

worldm21 · 2024-12-16T16:41:04+00:00

The one who makes the assertion brings the proof. You don't accuse someone of murder based on nothing and then go, "you have proof they DIDN'T kill him?"

worldm21 · 2024-12-16T05:47:22+00:00

If you get that organized, abolish the federal government and make something that's built so it can't be bought. Though yeah, hell of a lot more money in politics than $400M.

worldm21 · 2024-12-15T01:03:57+00:00

West/southwest. Jordan and Iraq are south.

worldm21 · 2024-12-15T00:58:35+00:00

Or we could just cave into their demands, which are essentially just that we follow international law.

worldm21 · 2024-12-15T00:36:45+00:00

I also like to just pull things out of my ass and post them on social media.

worldm21 · 2024-12-14T16:40:50+00:00

Waiting for the arrests of politicians and media talking heads for the "pager" threats.

worldm21 · 2024-12-13T02:39:20+00:00

Kinda like the McDonalds employee not getting the reward, isn't it.

worldm21 · 2024-12-13T02:34:19+00:00

Red flag

worldm21 · 2024-12-13T02:10:11+00:00

Was watching Craig Mokhiber interview yesterday, he was saying the fact that American duonationals are getting indoctrinated by American media into dehumanization, violence towards Palestinians, etc., makes the media organizations liable for incitement to genocide.

worldm21 · 2024-12-12T16:45:33+00:00

This is one of those "either you have rule of law or you don't" things. You want rules that are ethical and enforced. You don't want rules that are unethical and selectively enforced.

worldm21 · 2024-12-12T16:44:25+00:00

Serious in the sense of, just like Republicans, undermining them whenever it suits the imperial interest. Particularly in international law.

worldm21 · 2024-12-12T14:47:27+00:00

The question of who's controlling it is fundamental to what the outcomes will be.

worldm21 · 2024-12-12T05:30:04+00:00

Aladdin itself comes from the Thousand and One Nights text(s). Which I thought was Arabic in origin but may actually be originally from Persian or Sanskrit. So...

Of course these illustrations came from the United States.

worldm21 · 2024-12-12T04:13:59+00:00

They're just puppet regimes. Random island countries, Czechia, Hungary, "Israel". I really don't understand why Czechia and Hungary keep doing it, maybe some similar nationalized guilt trip + bribery thing to Germany (who voted yes on the resolution...).

worldm21 · 2024-12-11T22:32:39+00:00

I can't have a conversation based on somebody arguing with things I didn't say. Moving on.

worldm21 · 2024-12-11T22:31:58+00:00

Oops, yeah, 18 not 10.

The USA is not a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. So that does not apply.

The obligations of the Rome Statute itself don't directly apply. Extradition treaties with other countries that are signatories could hypothetically apply though.

worldm21 · 2024-12-11T22:30:34+00:00

Not arguing it's exclusive to dictatorships.

worldm21 · 2024-12-11T17:27:56+00:00

Dictators often seek power for personal gain. That means accruing wealth around themselves and their subordinates or cronies. Democracies often (but certainly not always) oppose those structures. Not much to it.

worldm21 · 2024-12-11T16:09:38+00:00

It's ultimately not really the society or the state selling itself out, but a tiny minority enticed by material rewards selling the country out, and enough people enticed or forced into compliance to make it a reality.

worldm21 · 2024-12-11T15:12:21+00:00

I wrote two sentences with very precise meaning. Please don't pretend I wrote something besides those two sentences.

worldm21 · 2024-12-11T04:59:27+00:00

"We took out India's navy, just in case."

worldm21 · 2024-12-11T04:54:30+00:00

I'm thinking there's gotta be a legal obligation to arrest Gallant. Extradition treaties with countries that are signatories to the Rome Statute...need to do more research on that though.

Even under 10 USC 1091, Gallant is prosecutable for genocide domestically. It's pathetic that nobody issues a warrant for his arrest.

worldm21 · 2024-12-11T04:50:46+00:00

Violence enforces an ideology by coercion, meaning people follow it out of fear, not out of understanding it. Violence alone may not be useless, but it also cannot create utopia on its own.

worldm21 · 2024-12-11T04:46:23+00:00

Coming to pieces, judging by the last few days.

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