How much you wanna bet this costs more money than it saves in the end?

Not sure why they’re leaning like that, though.

Shit’s heavy, I believe.

If your point of view is that you can’t compare ultranationalists who send dissidents to prison camps while invading neighboring sovereign countries and slaughtering their populations in campaigns of ethnic cleansing and genocide to Nazis, I’d thank you to unmod me.

Or I’ll do it myself, I suppose.

Until you’ve got the government itself proclaiming master race shit, they ain’t Nazi.

In 2021, the official discourse in Russia changed quite unexpectedly: in the summer and autumn an anti-migrant campaign unfolded in state media, as reflected in statements by pro-government politicians and public figures. Actively discussed were such (supposed) issues as the threat of “ethnic crime,” excessive numbers of migrants and the harm they do to the labor market.

The reason for this campaign remains unclear, especially considering that the number of foreigners in Russia had declined significantly due to pandemic-related entry restrictions. In addition, in many cases the media wrote about threats emanating not only from migrants, but also from Russian citizens – for example, from Dagestanis or from foreigners who had long ago taken Russian citizenship – which only showed the racist underpinnings of the campaign.

“Gangs of uninvited guests threaten every Russian individually and all Russians collectively. It would not be an exaggeration to say that before our eyes a threat to the Russian State itself has emerged,” wrote Konstantin Malofeev.

Since the beginning of 2024, the SOVA Center has recorded 136 cases of such vigilantism. In Kaluga Region, for example, Russian Community participated in police checks of migrants at construction sites and restaurants, collaborated with the Directorate for Traffic Safety in cracking down on illegal taxis, and in Ryazan and Yekaterinburg, as well as Krasnodar Region, even patrolled the streets.

“The convergence of the official political rhetoric with nationalist ideology is perceived by nationalists as an unofficial green light for vigilante initiatives.”

Prisons are also not concentration camps. You know what I mean by concentration camp, where people go to be exterminated en masse. Russia Prisons are shit, but they’re not concentration camps.

So Nazi Germany wasn’t Nazi Germany until 1941?

Chechnya (twice), Georgia (twice), Ukraine (twice or three times, depending on how you count it).

Racist ideology

Prison camps for dissidents

How much more do you want? Are we only allowing post-1939 Nazi Germany? Are we going to have to wait for Poland to be invaded and another Katyn Massacre, since Ukrainian genocide isn’t enough to call them Nazis?

I resent that!

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Kids didn’t start preschool until 6?

That’s, uh, interesting.

Look, I’m not saying crashing public transportation should be allowed…

… but as the protagonists of a 1980s school comedy, I feel like this can’t end too harshly for them or else it’ll just be bleak and unwatchable.

Americans are pretty ideologically incoherent anyway.

Fuckin’ mood. You can’t have an IRL conversation about political policy with people because it’s all fucking feels to them. My personal ‘favorite’ is people saying they’re against gun control, and voting accordingly, but if you ask them what their policy preferences are they’re more pro-gun-control than many people who claim to be pro-gun control.

Every part of the SS was engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide, even the medical corp.

Only if you assume that all support for the institutions of the SS was in some indirect way ethnic cleansing and genocide.

How are you comparing them to Hezbollah, which only exists out of resistance to Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Lebanon?

Do I have to quote Hezbollah’s extensive history of antisemitism and calls for ethnic cleansing of Israel?

You haven’t made an argument for why they should not be considered non-conbatants

I quite literally did.

-According to Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, combatants are:

the armed forces of a party to a conflict, and also groups and units that are under a command responsible to that party for the conduct of its subordinates, even if that party is answerable to a government or an authority not recognized by an adverse party. Such armed forces shall be subject to an internal disciplinary system, which, inter alia, shall enforce compliance with the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict

It’s worth noting that Hezbollah members aren’t just militant fighters.

The SS also included members that weren’t ‘militant fighters’, running a vast economic, political, and charitable apparatus, but few would dispute that attacking members of the SS would be attacking members of a paramilitary organization and legitimate targets.

Would you like to more precisely outline the hypocrisy that is comparable in this case - between the targeting of combatants that results in collateral damage, and the assertion that attacking civilians with rocket barrages is valid because Israel has a ‘conscript army’, implicitly asserting that all Israeli civilians are legitimate targets?

Which states are not fascist states? I’m curious. Or is every state a fascist state?

I don’t ascribe to it.

Then repeating things like this

Hmmm I guess with Israel having a conscript army then rocket barrages aren’t acts of terrorism.

in attempting to equate collateral damage with attacking civilians should probably be avoided.

We should declare them terrorists and ship them to gitmo.

Let’s not. In fact, let’s not abuse US and international law with Gitmo ever again, please.

This is terrorism and a violation of International humanitarian law. It’s not a war crime because Lebanon and Israel are not formally at war

War crimes are not restricted to polities formally at war.

As an attack on Hezbollah militant fighters, sure, fair game. But this didn’t just attack them.

Photographs and videos filmed by victims and witnesses to the incident and reviewed by Human Rights Watch showed pagers exploding in various locales, such as grocery stores. Other videos that appear to be linked to the incident show adults and children in emergency rooms with severe penetrating traumatic injuries to their heads, torsos. and limbs, and other injuries consistent with the detonation of high explosives.

Unless there’s some proof that Israel targeted civilians or was exceptionally lax in targeting combatants, this has no relevance as to whether what they did was a war crime.

Hezbollah, in a statement, said that the pagers belonged “to employees of various Hezbollah units and institutions” and blamed the Israeli government. US and former Israeli officials speaking to the media said that Israel was responsible for the attack. The Israeli military has not commented.

Hezbollah is a paramilitary group. It’s going to be a hard sell to any lawyer or judge that targeting their members is targeting noncombatants.

“Customary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps – objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use – precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon today."

That’s a very curious claim regarding international law on booby traps.

68% also support a path for citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came here as children. Really, the only thing this says is 54% of Americans don’t support mass amnesty - which, while unfortunate, should not be surprising to anyone who hasn’t bought into the “99% of the electorate is secretly far-left!” shite sometimes peddled by the deluded.

Not unless you’re making a meaningful attempt to target combatants. “All civilians are combatants” is the kind of Nazi shite that Israel indulges in, so I’d thank you to not peddle such grotesque views.

Good.