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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember when America firebombed civilians during World War Two?
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#13It's called war crime only if you lost
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#15The US certainly has a mixed track record here. But the culture of lawlessness in this administration is hard to overstate. Every crime committed by this regime is followed by a "what about" argument from a pundit, citing an example where someone in time, committed a vaguely similar offense. But no regime in US history did so many crimes so often. This is historically corrupt and criminal; everything else is disingen…
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember when America firebombed civilians during World War Two?
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No, the fire bombing of Japan did far more damage than the nuclear bombs. What made early nuclear bombs scary is that instead of needing hundreds of bombers you now only needed one for the same amount of damage
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wasn’t regret for and fear of the scale of that damage partly why we supported the Geneva Convention?
Ever heard about Laos? "Between December of 1964 and March of 1973, the US launched more than 270 million cluster bombs on Laos during Operation Barrel Roll. This number is equivalent to dropping a full plane cargo load every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years. Laos is thus the most heavily bombed country in the world." "The legacy of this once secret war continues today. More than 80,000,000 undetonated bombs ar…
I’m not remotely claiming we didn’t do war crimes afterwards. Just that the firebombing, if I recall correctly, was explicitly cited as a reason why we needed rules going forward.
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#18Now? There is reason why United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
It's their policy for decades. There is no bigger threat for world peace than US (and maybe Israel).
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#19It's called war crime only if you lost
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#20The US certainly has a mixed track record here. But the culture of lawlessness in this administration is hard to overstate. Every crime committed by this regime is followed by a "what about" argument from a pundit, citing an example where someone in time, committed a vaguely similar offense. But no regime in US history did so many crimes so often. This is historically corrupt and criminal; everything else is disingen…
For anyone who hasn't, I recommend reading up on Watergate and watching the resignation speech. It represents the kind of presidential conduct that a few decades ago was considered so abhorrent that the president should immediately resign over it.
Well initially Nixon was following a similar playbook to what you see Trump et al pull off successfully today. He only resigned when it became clear the he had lost too many votes in the Senate and would lose the impeachment vote. That took a few months from when the story initially broke.