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Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague

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Re: Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague

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Post by spwa4 »

Rodeoclash wrote: post #310
mr_toad wrote: post #287

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So it’s like a court where only law abiding citizens agree to its jurisdiction and all the criminals get away with murder because they never signed a treaty.

Yes. These are countries, not individuals. Short of aliens taking over control of earth, this is the best we have.

In essentially all cases it is very well known which individuals have committed these crimes. This is an excuse.

And yes, I do agree with your general point: the ICC idea is beautiful. The problem is that the parties to the Rome statute (the real "meat" behind the ICC) has no intention to provide justice to the world, but want to use the ICC as a political weapon, in some cases to prepare for war.

If you intend to do nothing, a center that keeps files on individuals, nothing more, documenting all known human rights abuses, would achieve more.

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Post by pydry »

avoutos wrote: post #363
pydry wrote: post #302

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>It doesn’t. It’s why I never cite general popularity for Israel Yet you cited "Israel is uniquely popular" as a reason for why they get their way. Which is not true. >Israel has a vocal minority that loves it. It has not had, until last last year, a vocal minority that hates it It not only had a vocal minority that hates it it had a vocal minority of Jews that loathe it. The minorities arent the point though, the mo…

To say that Israel has fully captured the American government is ridiculous. Pro-Israel spending is a fraction of all political spending. take aipac, which barely scratches the top 10 of single-issue focused organizations. Aipac donated 43 mil to campaigns in 2023-24. The League of Conservation Warriors donated 50 million. Is the U.S. gov't being captured by environmental advocacy groups? If you look at foreign agent…

Israel's influence is not just about how much money it spends openly on candidates and AIPAC is not the only foreign agent of Israel channeling cash to political campaigns.

Re: Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague

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Post by slt2021 »

bigyabai wrote: post #108
chii wrote: post #97

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> this administration is ruining that position. this administration is ruining many things. China doesnt even have to fight to win new soft power - the US is doing it to themselves.

Agent Krasnov, mission accomplished.

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Re: Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague

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Post by slt2021 »

flyinglizard wrote: post #188
creatonez wrote: post #101

Not surprising that the biggest tech companies are complicit in the biggest war crimes and atrocities of a generation. In the 1940s it was IBM providing holocaust tabulation machines. In the 2020s, it's companies like Microsoft providing the tech infrastructure for AI-assisted targeting and pervasive surveillance in the ongoing Gaza holocaust.

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memri is a propaganda site, funded by the US DoS and israeli entities

Re: Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague

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Post by computerthings »

SllX wrote: post #144
soulofmischief wrote: post #126

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We decided to not be a part of it. Meanwhile, we systematically bully other nations and kill high ranking officials with impunity. We can't have our cake and eat it too.

Put another way, we defend American interests.

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Re: Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague

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Post by belter »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #43
belter wrote: post #40

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Why stop there? You have a call, its a Rafale: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/no-us-in-nato-thats-ok-rafal...

No AI features in Rafale?

Neither does the F-35 https://c3.ai/customers/improving-f-35-mission-capability-wi...

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Post by xorcist »

a_bonobo wrote: post #17
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #10

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The power that comes with military contract-type money, connections, and influence. That's the kind of situation that gives CEOs lifelong reputations (that they think it's in a good way).

The NSDAP-style alignments went both ways: if the industry bigwig joined the party, he got access to lucrative contracts and insider information. The NSDAP also helped strike down strikes for the bigwigs, and later, supplied slaves from concentration camps for cheap. In turn, the party got to deeply control the bigwig: don't toe the party line and you're either out, or you're in danger. Join the party and publicly de…

It's also objectively the definition of fascism; a society where industry and party is working together as one body with the strong leader as the head.

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Post by xorcist »

spwa4 wrote: post #73
conradev wrote: post #44

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They’re working on it! And they’re making it open source :) Our goal is to offer a privacy-focused, vendor-neutral alternative to platforms like Microsoft Exchange. https://stalw.art/blog/nlnet-grant-collaboration/

Great, but look at this. This is a joke. Let's see ... the EU funded Microsoft to the tune of 234.26 billion USD per year, and have been funding it for 50 years (starting at 0 of course). How much software does the EU expect to get for "between 5000 and 50000 euro"? (one-time). A software engineer in Bangalore can expect to make more than that, even after tax! The EU got INCREDIBLY lucky after Microsoft's rise. Linux…

It is impossible to analyze the EU without the context of the US. The EU exists because the US allows it to, which wasn't at all obvious in the beginning.

It has been popular lately to complain about European states military spending, which is more than just naive given that NATO decides what can exist and an alternative to NATO would be unrealistic, especially in the shorter term.

If the EU really threatened the US in any manner, that situation would be rectified in a heartbeat. That may sound violent, but it mostly isn't. A lot of it is just the free market at play, but it is a market in harmony with US interests.

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Post by avoutos »

an_guy wrote: post #377
avoutos wrote: post #359

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The data doesn't seem to support this claim. Israel has not "bought" any Presidents. Even assuming all pro-israel spending comes from the government of Israel and not from say U.S. groups that support Israel, it is a fraction of the combined and individual spending of other interest groups. The pro-Israel lobby has spent roughly 10-15M per year since 1990 except for the past 2-3 years when it has ramped up due to the…

> The pro-Israel lobby has spent roughly 10-15M per year... This is hardly enough to offset the billions of dollars spent in U.S. politics Those $10-15 mil are given to politicians and the billions are spent from US tax payers money. > For this to be true it would also require Israel to "buy" presidents who acted against Israel's interests You might want to look into campaign contributions made by AIPAC and similar i…

> Those $10-15 mil are given to politicians and the billions are spent from US tax payers money.

regardless of where the money comes from, my point was that money is not enough compared to the rest to claim that Israel has "bought" candidates.

> You might want to look into campaign contributions made by AIPAC and similar isreli institutions to these presidents.

The pro-Israel lobby certainly donated to them, it was just not enough to justify the claim that Israel has "bought all previous US presidents." And the fact that those presidents acted against Israel's interests shows that if there was an attempt to "buy" them, it failed with respect to policy.

> Which effectively makes these weapons free for Israel. US is literally funding Israeli army.

You are right that the U.S. is funding Israel's military, but my point was that there are in fact conditions to the funding and the U.S. does get something in return if you consider the indirect subsidy of the American defense industry.

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Post by jeroenhd »

NewJazz wrote: post #133
jeroenhd wrote: post #72

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Trump won the majority vote in an election that brought out a huge amount of voters compared to previous elections, and Republicans won every other government body. He's not unpopular and many people do support him, unfortunately. Best case scenario, the silent majority didn't bother to prevent Trump and his lackeys from taking over the American government. I don't think denying Trump's popularity is going to solve a…

Donald Trump has never won a majority vote in any public election. 49.9% is not a majority.

That's true, I shouldn't have said "majority vote", just "most voters". The tiny sliver of irrelevant candidates did prevent Trump from gaining the majority vote.

Though, as he absorbed Kennedy into his government, I would argue his current leadership gained 50.29% of the votes.

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