US lawmakers urge PayPal to end ban on Palestinians in Occupied Territories

Post by danlugo92 » Thu, May 25, 2023, 8:53 PM UTC

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If a Israeli kills a Palestinian child (like this [0]) and is later killed himself, would his family receive survivorship benefits? If Palestinian fighting men aren't soldiers does that mean Israel is killing non combatants? [0] https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/eight-palestinian-chil...

I don't understand the confusion on this topic. One side will pay the family of a suicide bomber that murders innocent civilians, the other won't. It's not complicated. War is ugly, but as a global society we do have some idea about the difference between combat and terrorism. Firing rockets indiscriminately into a civilian area is not combat. Hiding your guns, bombs, and bases inside of civilian buildings is not som…

Post by nunobrito » Thu, May 25, 2023, 10:04 PM UTC

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What good reasons? Kim Jung Un can send boats with gold bars. Meanwhile I can't send money without the bank asking me 'what ya gonna do with "your" money little friend?' Just have the money in escrow for 30 days or whatever if fraud is a concern. It is all about messing with us and showing who is in charge.

> Kim Jung Un can send boats with gold bars. Which is orders of magnitude more complex than running a SWIFT transfer, which is the entire goal of the sanctions : make it as hard as possible for the sanctioned country to do anything. Everyone knows and we've seen it over the last years that it is possible to evade any sanction - hell, even over many decades like Cuba - but it is a serious incentive for any government…

Post by flagrant_taco » Fri, May 26, 2023, 12:02 AM UTC

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That's a pretty serious step with the federal government directly limiting what every business can do. I'm not actually sure if that would even be constitutional given that it severely limits how potentially privately owned businesses set their own terms of use. Defining what those limits are is entirely arbitrary, how do we pick a number that makes sense universally? Is that number adjusted for inflation, population…

> That's a pretty serious step with the federal government directly limiting what every business can do. I'm not actually sure if that would even be constitutional given that it severely limits how potentially privately owned businesses set their own terms of use. See: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/civil-rights-ac...

Post by hutzlibu » Fri, May 26, 2023, 1:37 AM UTC

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No one claimed that sanctions alone will stop the war. And ALL of the russians are under sanctions since 2014 btw. and that clearly did not prevented the big war, or made Putin less powerful. So if anything, this refutes that sanctions against a whole population are helping.

No, it doesn't, because you don't know what the world would have looked like if there were no sanctions. If the impact of the sanctions delayed the war or forced Russia to go in with fewer supplies then the sanctions absolutely had a measurable impact. Just because Putin has strong authority now doesn't mean he wouldn't have been stronger without sanctions. Your arguments have no basis in reality.

Post by TimJRobinson » Fri, May 26, 2023, 2:16 AM UTC

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Why would people use Bitcoin over sending USDC or other USD stablecoins directly on any other chain?

Because that new boss is same as the old boss ``` /* * @title Blacklistable Token * @dev Allows accounts to be blacklisted by a "blacklister" role */ contract Blacklistable is Ownable { ``` [0] https://etherscan[.]io/address/0xa2327a938febf5fec13bacfb16a...