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Thanks for giving me the feed for my community
I mean, everyone should read up on how "International Law" is an absolute failure.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/04/amnesty-international-sounds-alarm-international-law-flagrant-rule-breaking-governments-corporate-actors/
If there's no enforcement, there is no law. That's how we got a 2nd fucking Trump term.
Keep digging 🤣
Sure, you want more links about how you have no idea what you're saying?
I can literally do this all day:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/65614/does-international-law-exist-david-allen-green-israel-russia
Again, the problem is enforcement. You can say "x is illegal", but unless there's an agency willing to actually enforce that law, it means exactly fuck all.
You probably aren't old enough to remember when George W. Bush was saying the same things about Iraq that people are now saying about Iran, but the one that stuck out to me was that we had to invade Iraq because they were in violation of 16 UN resolutions.
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/09/text/20020912.html
Folks like me were pointing out we don't actually give two shits about UN resolutions because, at the time, Israel was in violation of over EIGHTY of them and we weren't making noises about invading THEM. It would have been over 100 except the US held veto power on resolutions.
So, again, there is no such thing as "international law" as there's no international body capable of or willing to enforce it.
Carry on 🤣🤣🤣
So wait, laws should be enforced? Like with violence?
Because if laws are necessary and what society is made of, as you say elsewhere, and laws do not exist wuthout violent enforcement
You are advocating for violence, sir!
Removing infringing comments is only violence to teenage edge lords who can't stand being told "no".
Always the memes when you can't refute the facts. LOL.
I just find you ridiculous in general, I don't even have an agenda to call you out on or anything.