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1 hour agoTrue, but it’s a first step… Although at $28 million for 3,000 beds, that comes out to be $9,333.33 per bed? Seems awfully expensive for what they’re trying to do.
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3·2 hours agoFacebook post would be a step up for some of these… :)
1·2 hours agoFrom your article:
“Prosecutors in The Hague said on Monday that they would not, for the moment, investigate allegations that China had committed genocide and crimes against humanity regarding the Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group, because the alleged crimes took place in China, which is not a party to the court.”
They have no legal jurusdiction in China.
4·2 hours agoSorry about that, it looks like it got shoved down as more stories came in, I swear it was at the top when I linked it! ;)
Laken Riley Act passes Congress, awaits Trump’s signature
The House has passed a bill to require the detainment of unauthorized migrants accused of theft and violent crimes. It marks the first legislation that President Donald Trump can sign as Congress, with some bipartisan support, swiftly moved in line with his plans to crackdown on illegal immigration. The Laken Riley Act is named after a Georgia nursing student who was murdered last year by a Venezuelan man. Its passage shows just how sharply the political debate over immigration has shifted to the right following Trump’s election victory.
Representative Tom Emmer, the House Republican whip, posted the final vote on X, showing that it passed with 263 votes in favor to 156 against, with 14 members not voting.
In an impassioned floor speech against the bill before it passed, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued that the law would be a financial windfall for private prison companies, by mandating detention for minor offenses. “I want folks at home to look, look at what members of Congress are invested in private prisons companies, who receive this kind of money, and look at the votes on this bill. It is atrocious that people are lining their pockets with private prison profits in the name of a horrific tragedy and the victim of a crime. It is shameful.”
No, you can discuss anything you want, but you won’t be allowed to assert blatant falsehoods as true.
Same goes when I remove the arguments about Ukranians being Nazis or how they were the real aggressors after Russia invaded them or how the Uyghur genocide is all made up by Western powers to make China look bad.
Bullshit gets removed, repeated, unrepentent bullshit gets a temp ban. Repeated temp bans get longer and longer until the bullshit is excised.
Again, not a moral viewpoint.
Objectively, by any and all legal definition, Israel is responsible for the genocide in Gaza NOT Biden.
Quoted, and cited. You can go on and on about how you “feel” diferently, but you can’t say that and ignore a legal ruling as being subjective.
Unless, and I’m open to the very real possibility at this point, that you don’t ACTUALLY know the definitions of “objective” and “subjective”.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/objective
1: expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations
The ICC found Israel and Netanyahu responsible for the genocide in Gaza. Factually true. They did not charge Biden. Factually true. Cited above. This is the objective reality of the situation and comments accusing Biden of genocide will continue to be removed as misinformation.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subjective
3a : characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind
4a(1) : peculiar to a particular individual
(2) : modified or affected by personal views, experience, or background
5 : lacking in reality or substance
“I don’t care what the ICC says! I feel different!”
That would be you. We’re done here, it’s like talking to a poorly informed wall.
Again, morality and philosophy are subjective. Legally, which is objective, Biden is not responsible.
It absolutely is, you kept bringing up the subjective vs. objective argument.
The objective truth is the legal rulings from the ICC court cited above.
Your subjective notion of what’s “philosophically true” cannot be objectively proven one way or the other. That’s the very nature of philosophy.
I gave you the citations from Biden stating his reasoning, I gave you the ruling from the ICC. These are all the legal standings surrounding Biden’s support of Israel.
If you want the objective truth, you have it, quoted and sourced. If you choose to reject it, well, I can’t help you with that.
“AHHH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!”
Yeah, I could see that.
Just leak it, what’s the worst that could happen?
They never did find who leaked the Supreme Court rulings.
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I’d add the Sten Mk II S. :)
Hard to beat the Wolfenstein games and the Indiana Jones movies.
1·5 hours agoThat’s the joke I tell about Portland “You know, the city TRIES! First sign of snow? Both of our plows are out there making the roads safe!”
“it passed with 263 votes in favor to 156 against, with 14 members not voting.”
So 43 Democrats voted for it? More or less depending on who the non-voters are.
No, they have jurisdiction in the State of Palestine, you know, where the crimes are happening.
https://asp.icc-cpi.int/states-parties/asian-states/Palestine
Which is how they charged Israel for the ongoing genocide, Israel isn’t an ICC states party either, but you run around committing crimes in a states party, yeah, they do have jurisdiction.
Same for Ukraine and Russia.
https://asp.icc-cpi.int/states-parties/eastern-european-states/ukraine - Member state, Russia is not. Putin gets charged as a war criminal.
So if Putin, like China, started committing atrocities inside his own country, the ICC couldn’t cover it, not an ICC issue.