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No, genocide has a specific meaning -- the wholesale destruction of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group. If someone holds up a bank and shoots two people, that's probably not genocide. If I invade a country and 200,000 civilians from that country die, that probably is genocide.

WW2 would be considered genocidal for their war against the Nazi party, no?

Yes.

Would they be in violation of the act if they did not offer these alternatives at all?

It's almost like the goal was to wipe anyone that opposed the US and its allies or that supported the old guard in Iraq... a large number of people from a particular nation.

Clearly Israel just wants to remove Ismail Haniyeh and his HAMAS coalition government, not wipe out literally anyone who was in favor of him.

You could classify pretty much any war you want as a genocide that way

Yes, that is my point.

People are targeted based on their membership in a “national, ethnical, racial or religious group”.

Targeted like Iraqi Ba'athists.

It isn’t just killing. It’s systematic actions taken to destroy a group.

Systemic actions like the planning and execution of Desert Storm, armed invasion and occupation of Iraq's cities, ports and bases?

large number of people from a particular nation

The large number of people here would be Iraqis that are Ba'athist.

It's possible to support 3rd parties in the US. Just not for the 2024 presidential case. If you really want to support them, unfortunately you will have to do more than just appear at the ballot box.

Before starting a war, ask yourself what victory would look like. It appears here that the goal is wiping Gaza entirely and anything short of that will be construed as a loss.

Congress members don’t make enough to be rich without taking bribes.

That's why so many of them take bribes :)

To anyone struggling in the USA and wondering how to possibly get out, just live like Congress and become rich. Then, money problems are way easier to handle. If you have as much money as a Congressman, you will be equally as unconcerned with them as to the state of our union and you will be able to say things are great with a straight face.

Given that there will be more people like Lia Thomas who want to compete at the highest levels in sports and that people who were born male can have natural advantages at sports, doesn't this mean that over time people who are born male will displace all people who were born female in sports, leaving no biological women in the top slots? If this trend continues, I don't see why this wouldn't happen over years and years. No matter how one feels about this issue this would feel like a profoundly unfair outcome.

If you didn't invent HTTP you shouldn't be posting on the Internet.

Articles like this strain the credibility of MSNBC with clickbait headlines. This comes from a conversation regarding cheap imports causing a "ECONOMIC bloodbath" in the automotive industry.

I have NO love for Trump, but for the love of God, save your outrage for something else he's going to do other than lament the state of the auto industry.

A more honest headline would be "Trump discusses ECONOMIC bloodbath" "Troubles ahead for American autoworkers says Trump", etc. but of course MSNBC is filled with hacky journalists so they go for maximum outrage, knowing full well that most people only read the headline and that's it.

I’ve never had sympathy for this line of thinking. Is the average person truly too ignorant to understand that science is a constantly developing process of better understanding our universe, not some set of unimpeachable rules carved into stone tablets once and forever?

YES because often times the opposing model is the Bible, which is updated very irregularly and people will form sects over a single differing interpretation of a single passage.

Changing your mind / learning new information can be construed as the super-hated "flip-flop".

Unfortunately, the illogical are immune to logic. No amount of it will be effective.

They have time for what they want to have time for. Everything else is just lip service.

Big IF. Talk is cheap.

It isn't good enough... we have fucking nothing and there's been chat about this for close to 2 decades.

If it's money for extra bombs for Ukraine or if it's bank bailouts it can happen really quick. Stop putting people in jail for weed, enh, we'll get it done "right away".... sure you will.