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What muscle lies behind the ICC?

The 124 countries on this list.

Unfortunately as you can see from a glance at the linked map, although much of the world is on board with it, the US and China refuse, and the rest of us are not militarily strong enough to stop them from carrying out or supporting war crimes. The usual story of this is why we can't have nice things.

Note that the ICC is a court of last resort, it was set up for cases where people lacked the power or the infrastructure to try cases of crimes against humanity etc in their local jurisdictions.

It's an admirable project and the world needs it.

Sure, I can probably dig it up if you're interested. Like I said, it wasn't a spat, it was just you telling me not to reply to your comments.

I'm a bit of a film fan and was pleasantly surprised when Spielberg of all people said something vaguely against killing civilians in Gaza (half of Hollywood seem to be wildly pro genocide), so I posted it in a movie sub.

Emotive subject, might explain it. Also I get lazy about deleting tags. Maybe when you see it again you'll remember how annoying I am and block me this time!

Anyway here it is, I can't seem to format it for other instances but here it is viewed through kbin.

https://kbin.social/m/movies@lemmy.world/t/922119/Steven-Spielberg-denounces-antisemitism-and-makes-first-comments-on-Gaza#comments

This is terrible.

I remember he was at Al Shifa and spoke to the press about the IDF attack on the hospital.

I think that's a great tip. You're right.

Your relation is being callous.

My tip for elderly incontinence is make a designated area (I use thick plastic like a tablecloth cover to protect the floor) and line it with Puppy Pads/ mats.

Also if you get an oil drip tray from an auto shop you can put kitty litter in it and the cat doesn't have to step over anything to use it.

Nope, the Israel Palestine occupation has been a thing for decades. Redfit was different in, say, 2014 (another hostage situation) to what it is now.

Personally I think it has a lot to do with the total unleashing of bots and astroturfers, but it's definitely noticeable to me.

Idk, the subs I used to frequent the most have definitely shifted to the right.

Worldnews over there is just a horrendous shitpile of fascism and Hasbara. It used to be way more variable depending on time of day and stuff.

Settlers of Catan generation.

Based on my observations (of various old people in my life) of what works and what doesn't:

• continue to gather and use evidence to make decisions
• continue to be open minded to new ideas and new evidence
• recognise your blind spots and have trusted people in your life to help with decisionmaking in those areas

Too much of a leap.

The idea that everyone who says down with a regime is willing to kill people over it, doesn't really hold water for me.

I did not know that. I thought it was like, a cornerstone of American identity.

@someguy basically I was just pointing out that unlike the Israel situation neither side here is an important US ally. This is going to take either an AU intervention or a UN one.

I don't think we've had disagreements. For reasons I don't really understand you objected to me replying to your comment on my thread once and told me not to reply to your comments. I objected at first but you got quite irate and told me off.

I don't block people because reasons, but I hoped you'd just block me, to avoid a repeat of whatever it was.

I normally refrain from replying to you at all in my threads but in this case I thought it was worth pointing out because the world really can do more for Sudanese civilians if there is more awareness of the situation.

Yeah you're probably right. It surprised me how many people my age are here but it does make sense because we're the generation that enjoyed a less corporate internet.

Well, I looked into it and found credible sources that support
@AllNewTypeFace's claim, so I'm going to believe them.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=31116

https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1558/929

Selection bias. Lemmy users by default are probably more sensitive to/negative about enshittification than those on reddit.

Many of us came here in response to the enshittification of reddit.

The term "enshittification" is a useful neologism because without it we'd need half a sentence to get the same concept across.

Gaza wants aid. Famine is setting in. But this is mostly theatre.

Road crossings could deliver a lot more aid a lot faster. The US plan for this pier is to gradually ramp up to 150 truckloads a day. For reference Gaza needed 200 truckloads a day in peacetime. That was back when people could still work, before all the housing and infrastructure got destroyed.

The aid pier has Israeli positions on both sides of the port meaning it can be subject to the same IDF chokeholds as the road crossings.

Why not make a rule for if they get attacked by unicorns while they're at it. There are IDF posts on both sides of the pier.

Wait so when they appear next to me does that mean they are now real IRL instead of in the piece of media?

If so I'm going to pick Neo from The Matrix.

Single handedly destroys the need for sequels and gives me a Keanu-esque friend.

Bizarrely, God is the main antagonist in the Old Testament in terms of plot.

So the stories would be more boring but also a lot calmer.

That's literally the opposite of what the person I was replying to said.