The white South Africans did not starve to death when we boycotted them over Apartheid. The Israeli people can stand a few sanctions over their democratic choice to allow openly genocidal actions.
Personally the first sanction I would like to see against Israel is a complete embargo on buying or selling any weapons, armaments, or other military equipment. This would not hurt the innocent but it would hurt arms dealers and genocidaires alike.
I've noticed a few people doing it but they only seem to use like 4 accounts each. Usually people spamming/promoting a blog.
Sure. But votes aren't private or anonymous. Anyone on Kbin can see a list of every account that upvoted something, so it's easy to spot.
It's only a matter of time before someone writes a third party client that allows Lemmy users to do this as well.
That I've actually encountered irl? The Anti 1080 conspiracy in New Zealand.
Its members do things like go out and kill protected birds themselves and dump them because they think the Department of Conservation's pest control plan is on behalf of the Illuminati who want to terraform NZ etc.
There's nothing unhinged about Time Cube. It's just so obviously true. 4 similtaneous rotations, 4 corner earth days. Circle times square.
Either you need to read it again, or else you're part of the conspiracy of suppression.
Great, an equal opportunity genocidist.
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This is the crux of it:
The ICC has 124 state parties, while the United Nations has 193 member states. This disparity makes clear the gap between what the ICC seeks to achieve – namely, universal accountability for international crimes – and what it can practically achieve when it lacks the support of implicated or nonaligned countries.
This is like cartoon villain level evil at this point.
I don't have a dog in this fight but I do want to point out a flaw in your reasoning. The fediverse is way different than reddit when it comes to karma.
not all instances have karma
of those that have it, not all instances federate it
there isn't a cross-instance hivemind so if your downvotes come from, say, Hexbear it doesn't mean the same thing as say, Lemmy.world
therefore, where you spend your time affects your various scores
I'm on Kbin which does not federate downvotes. We can only see downvotes if they are from other Kbin accounts, and they're also public. Downvotes from us are often to indicate spam or trolling, but only we can see them.
Narrator: "...it was."
dangerous precedent, where the US government shows complete disrespect of international law
With all due respect the US has been in open contempt of international law for the past 20+ years.
Guantanamo for example is completely illegal.
@That edit was your attempt at some dark humour?
If Gazans stand in a big group anywhere without permission from the occupiers, they can get bombed and sniped and chased with drones.
The majority are internally displaced and homeless. A significant number are now starving to death. We know from doctors - before the IDF rounded them up and imprisoned them in Sde Teiman (Israel's version of Abu Ghraib torture detention) - the number of burn injuries, amputations, etc civilians are facing.
And you dare to sit there and compare these to the uninjured, well fed citizens of a richer nation that all have their own homes to sit in and organize their protests about how they want their hostages back?
Palestinians want their hostages back too. The thousands of children whose parents have been killed and vice versa want their loved ones back too.They are HUMAN BEINGS just like you. If Israel had treated them as humans and observed international law instead of turning into a rogue genocidal state the civilians of Palestine may have had the same chance for expression that you do yourself.
Try for some compassion.