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"Wow, so Bill Clinton AND Trump get locked up? What's the downside?"
One of Trump's defense arguments for presidential immunity for any action was that if presidents didn't have it, Bush could be prosecuted for misleading Congress about WMDs, and Obama could be prosecuted for drone strikes against civilians.
Yes please.
You mean we should’ve given Nixon his well deserved punishment for treason, instead of a pardon? And we might have set an example to others, and be on a very different timeline? Fuuuuuuu
I want this so bad
One of the biggest improvements of Lemmy over reddit is that people here are willing to take an objective look at Obama instead of falling for his charisma and defending him to the death like MAGAs
When did Obama order drone strikes against civilians?
Or is this just more hyperbole over civilian casualties occurring during military operations? Part of ongoing the effort to "both sides" the genocide Hamas committed, maybe?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/daniel-hale-drones-leaked-documents-b1891826.html
“With drone warfare, sometimes nine out of 10 people killed are innocent,” Hale said on Tuesday. “You have to kill part of your conscience to do your job.”
“I am here because I stole something that was never mine to take — precious human life,” Hale said. “I couldn’t keep living in a world in which people pretend that things weren’t happening that were. Please, your honour, forgive me for taking papers instead of human lives.”
So you admit one of ten is not innocent and therefore a valid target. Nine civilians died when the non-civilian that was the target was hit.
Civilians were explicitly not targeted. What was said above was a lie.
Just more false equivalency between a group that actually does target civilians (Hamas) and everyone else.
What kind of person puts effort into making "both sides" arguments about actual genocide?
People are so desperate to make excuses for the genocide that Hamas committed that it's getting kind of ridiculous, don't you think?
By that logic if we drone strike a school shooter, the children who die in the drone strike are not intended targets. It's actually the fault of the school shooter, not the state, that those children died in a drone strike. And that would be incredibly ridiculous, of course it's the state at fault for killing those children. They did the drone strike.
What are you talking about? I'm sure analogy sounded good in your head, but it only indicates you understand nothing about a military operation.
In a civilian context you don't need to first invade a country so you can have boots on the ground so you can send someone into the school. Invading a country will result in a huge number of civilian casualties before you can send soldiers into that school to take out the target. Is that what you want?
There is basically no probability that you're sending soldiers into an ambush, there's no probability that the school is rigged to explode as soon as the soldier opens the door when it's a school shooting.
It's actually more the opposite. Terrorists have been known to blow up schools do you understand that? So if you have just one opportunity to take out that terrorist and you don't do it, and next week that same terrorist blows up a school and 50 children die, did you make the right decision?
These kinds of scenarios are a constant trolley cart problem. No matter what you do, civilians are going to die. You're just ignorantly calling the guy operating the track switch of genocide triggers the switch and you also accuse him of genocide if he doesn't trigger the switch, you're just someone accusing everyone of genocide constantly which means that word doesn't mean anything anymore. That only benefits the people that actually commit genocide.
True, terrorists have been known to blow up schools. Hundreds of them in fact
Yes and terrorist also fire rockets from schools too. Hundreds of them in fact.
How many children does that justify the IDF killing? Because it's over 10,000 now.
It's pretty wild that we are at a point in which we can say with all seriousness "how many children does that justify the IDF killing?" Like, it's clear that people who approve of what Israel is doing are okay with some number that is above zero, and we have to ask a question like that to understand where the "too far" line could possibly be. And any refusal to answer that question is an implicit blank check. I think I could've forgiven up to maybe a dozen if they had been careful and not signaled clearly that genocide was their intent. We're way past that though, hoping that the answer to your question is some number less than "all of them" and it's really fucking sad.
I'll defer to Israeli leadership on this one...
Prime Minister Netanyahu
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"Defence" minister Galant
Kallner...
Atbaryan...
Halevi...
Why did Israel fund Hamas's successful effort to displace the secular moderates?
Uhh... yeah Hamas committed real genocide. You see when it's actual genocide and not edgy teenage internet keyboard warrior "genocide" people are going to call it evil and completely destroy the evil people responsible. The evil people responsible are Hamas. This war is termed the Israel-Hamas war by the Israelis. Hamas are the evil people that have committed genocide.
The war is termed things other than the Israel-Hamas war by propaganda channels in an attempt to characterize the war as being against the Palestinian people. But that's not Israel doing that, it's propaganda channels that are opposed to Israel that are doing that.
There are members of Hamas who went into villages and massacred everyone they could find. Men, women, children, babies. Decapitated people. Played around with the severed heads like they were toys. They did these things under orders from their commanders. These specific people that did these horrific acts were referred to as "human animals".
The propaganda channels you're subscribed to probably left out some details on that, didn't they? That's all they have to do, just don't mention a few specifics and people will jump to the conclusion that someone was saying it about an entire ethnicity. But it's false. Someone referred to the specific people that committed the most horrific acts imaginable as being animals. Personally I prefer to use terms like "psychopath" or on occasion "monster" to describe people capable of doing the things that were done on October 7, but it's not all that offensive to me to call people like that "animals" since those kinds of acts are inhuman. How do you describe the people that went into villages and massacred men, women, and children? Freedom fighters?
I don't have time to go through all of the propaganda you've collected via your "internet research". But I think it should be plain to see that you've been misled on a lot of things.
You didn't answer why Israel backed Hamas's rise to power - it's not like Hamas's rhetoric has meaningfully since Israel helped them displace the secular moderates - they knew who they were backing, so why did they do it?
Let's cut through your nonsense with 2 basic questions:
What is the definition of genocide you're using?
In what way was October 7th bad in a way Israel hasn't been worse since?
Israel have the means to commit a genocide (Israeli officials have even been talking about nuking them) they've talked about genociding Palestine for a while now, manufactured the pretext in supporting Hamas, and now they've begun their genocide in earnest.
Hamas are terrorists, would love to genocide those that pushed them to power, but armed with small arms, a handful of rockets and an airforce consisting of a single paraglider, they lack the means to take down a nuclear power with F35s, backed by the US.
Bonus points: instead of whining vaguely about what you assume is my media diet (when I did nothing but quote officials from the regime you're defending), where am factually wrong?
For the curious, this moron has given their definition of genocide in a separate thread. His definition would mean that dropping a nuke on Netanyahu as he sits in Tel Aviv, wiping Israel off the map wouldn't be a genocide, while a marketing campaign to sell bottled water to African Americans would be a genocide.
This is the kind of incoherent bullshit tying yourself in knots to deny a genocide leads you to.
How slow of a reader are you that you can't read 5 quotes but have time to barf out Israeli propaganda all day.
It disagrees with their nonsense narrative, so it doesn't count - because... reasons - also, you're anti-semitic.
Go check their post history - it's clear they're just lying to defend a genocide, and they know it. Their definition of genocide alone is an absolute joke.
Obama killed US citizens overseas by drone strike, with no trial. These were murders by the state, if you believe in due process.
https://www.amnestyusa.org/updates/is-it-legal-for-the-u-s-to-kill-a-16-year-old-u-s-citizen-with-a-drone/
Before we continue, do I take this to mean you're cool with killing people who are not citizens of the US? It's only when it's a citizen of the US that takes a hellfire missile to the face that you have an issue with? You're conceding that the other drone strikes are okey dokey because they didn't involve US citizens?
Please change your name to SpaceSealion
lol
Imagine being this retarded
so, what happens... if I mash that thing multiple times?
also, is it pressure sensitive? if I mash it harder... ?
Can I stick a robot to spam it 24/7/365/9999?
…. Let’s add maintenance windows to, you know, make sure it stays working. First sunday every month?
You want to perform maintenance during football? Can’t we just buy two and do in-service maintenance during the week?
This kind of depends on the original question.
what happens?
I mean, if there needs to be lube or something... and in any case switching over requires some down time...
What kind of button mashing bot are you building that you are worried about lubricating your robot? It’s really not that hard to implement a lube tube that dispenses a small amount on a set frequency. Then you just have to monitor lube levels, tune your lube tube, and replace consumables whenever.
I’d be more worried about maintaining the button, to be honest. That’s an external system that we have no control over, it’s a single point of failure and it’s mission critical.
... "actuator"... is that what we're calling it now?
Pressing it starts an investigation. We don’t know what happens when it’s released.
I would expect mashing it would have one of two outcomes. Either you have a bunch of very short lived investigations, or you have so many active investigations that they start tripping over each other like lemmings in a ditch.
The right solution is to place a heavy weight on it one time, and then protect it to prevent the weight from being moved.
Iza button. no need for weight. Get some light weigh, UV cured epoxy resin.
in any case if that's all that happens, I think we need some expanded functionality. Maybe some electrodes... ?
It only starts the investigation.
But you can restart it whenever some rich slob tries to block it.
Boring.
Guess I need to build my own button.
I like the joke that puts them in hell where Trump is forever giving Clinton a blowjob. This way we can know they are both miserable forever.
Clinton said this (12-14 years old when she died) mummy was attractive, so clearly his standards are pretty low.
Trump said he would fuck his daughter if they weren't related, so there's that.