institutionalize them into the prison system that will suck channel even more US tax dollars into corporate interests.

FTFY.

True, but I think they’ve at least got “worst crime in the early 21st century” in the bag.

For example, ten times as name people died in the Syrian civil war.

The Syrian civil war wasn’t one crime; it was a war by multiple actors none particularly committed to human rights. Also Syria’s population is more than ten times that of Gaza.

The person in the OP is talking about their experience in the 50 years part, so it’s entirely possible they simply weren’t involved in aid during or after the Rwandan genocide.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cambodian genocide.

The Gaza genocide is, in fact, keeping pace with or beating the Cambodian genocide in terms of percentage of population killed per unit time; it’s just that most of them are via malnutrition, disease or outright starvation and therefore not counted in official statistics. In Gaza the deaths are also only the most extreme effect of Israeli crimes; there’s also the widespread (read: near-universal) starvation and disease, and the ridiculous number of injuries. Also Israeli crimes against children trump anything the Khmer Rouge did in that department, so I’m gonna agree with the OP on this one.

First, thanks for the excellent write-up. Second, wow, it’s honestly impressive ancient Romans could come up with a system this fucked up. Third,

The Emperor was an office, and offices are always ripe for new occupants to take their place.

One thing I don’t get: De facto the office of the Emperor was obviously a thing, but de jure what was the Emperor? Like what, if anything, was the legal cover for (if I understand this right) a military dictator running the show in what is ostensibly a republic?

Did any Emperor decide to kill off the Praetorian guard to avoid ruling with an implication of Damocles over his head? If yes how did it go, if no why?

let’s not forget Ukraine is in the middle of a war for its own existence.

Yes, which is exactly why corruption cannot be tolerated. Democratic accountability and efficiency are not mutually exclusive; if anything they’re two sides of the same coin. The fact that Ukraine can count on its weapon stockpiles and army divisions to be there when they need them is a direct result of accountability and anti-corruption measures, and we’ve all seen in Russia what happens when you don’t have those things.

Do you have evidence for this massive Russian conspiracy that’s making the agencies in question a bane rather than a boon for Ukraine?

Give me/us some solutions to that very real and difficult matter.

More internal oversight through the agencies themselves and external oversight through the legislature. Such power simply cannot be handed over to the executive. Russia will be very happy with this bill. Being a functional democracy with everything that entails is the one advantage Ukraine has other than Western aid; take that away and Ukraine will collapse in three seconds like Afghanistan did.

I can’t see your optimism as anything but wholly unfounded. An anti-corruption agency that’s not independent cannot do its job, full stop.

A clumsy attempt, but as long as people are able and allowed to protest, are being heard and talked to, we’re on a good path for a free democracy.

And how do you think free democracies devolve into authoritarianism if not for corruption?

I like the implication that mathematicians are not reasonable people.

Because the system is broken and a good chunk of people thought anyone willing to take a sledgehammer to the system was better than anyone willing to defend the system.

Good twist on the usual template.

Are those even important given the wide scale of American secondary sanctions?

What lesson? That it’s wrong for Iran to exist?

I don’t know that the suppression by the government during those protests was anything like what is going on today though.

The 60s and 70s were the height of COINTERPRO and CIA shenanigans so if anything protesters today have it good, but that aside:

Another big difference is the fact that many of the protestors back then were at risk of being directly affected via the draft, whereas the impact of the Palestinian genocide on the majority of Americans is minimal to nonexistent.

True, but we’re really not looking at just the genocide here. There’s a whole full-speed march to fascism that already is and will continue affecting the majority of Americans, so really what we should be seeing is mass anti-fascist resistance that would naturally have strong anti-Zionist presence. The fact that there’s no mass anti-fascist resistance is the big problem here, but that’s not due to lack of impact on the average American. Also given that the IDF trains American cops using lessons learned from their subjugation of Palestinians, I’d say there’s a fair bit of impact on minority communities.

I’m not saying that the election had no consequences; I’m only saying that things can (and usually do) change without elections, so elections weren’t really the last chance for anything. Whether they will this time aside, they at least in theory can; the problem is lack of popular will, not lack of opportunity. Again not dismissing the impact of the election, just keeping things in perspective.

That’s what they want you to think. The people’s power doesn’t end where the ruling class decides. Elections didn’t end the Vietnam war; mass popular resistance did. Most things you believe the government “gave” to you were actually taken by force.

If you’re from a country materially contributing to this madness, ruin your government’s day until they stop. Especially if you’re from an EU country, push for a repeal of the EU-Israel treaty and sanctions. If you’re not, then unfortunately nothing.

That’s… Wow. I have no words.

That makes sense, but as I said I think stating that you have problems with the instance, maybe with a short TL;DR, and a link for context would’ve been a better way to promote the community. As you can probably guess from the downvotes, titling a post “New Comm for Lord Of The Rings Memes at [email protected]” only to ambush the reader with eight paragraphs of instance drama gives a very bad first impression of you and, more relevantly, the community you’re creating, which kind of defeats the point. The easiest conclusion ends up being “who cares” with a hint of “Pug is in the wrong,” resulting in even potential subscribers deciding not to subscribe. Also there are people out there who tend to subscribe to more than one community about the same thing, so you could count on those subscribing.

Wow. Do you intend to burn these strawmen together with your effigy of Yitzhak Rabin or are they so you can imagine you’re shooting Palestinian children in the head?

Every thinking human being with a moral compass should want to see Israel (as in the apartheid state, not the people) destroyed. That’s one thing and active belligerent action is another. Iran policy with Israel has always been one of low-level proxy conflict, not war.