would like to be a fly on the wall during jury selection
youâre not alone. the light is there within you, hold on.
I havenât read this yet, will put it here for later https://www.commentary.org/articles/susan-sontag/the-imagination-of-disaster/
What shooting-up an ambulance looks like:
https://video.nostr.build/fe6df79ee76ebcbaf1c6b45f49a501ae0f043f7e776032dfb78ea4f73059e714.mp4
War crimes are not crimes because they are cruel and brutal.
(All war is cruel and brutal.)
War crimes are crimes because they are, also, counterproductive for achieving normal State strategic goals.
Attacking undefended ambulances and hospitals, whether with guided missiles, 120mm HEAT, 40mm autocannon fire, or merely automatic rifles like this time, gains zero military advantage, but motivates the enemy to fight on against your side regardless of costs because you are clearly monsters.
This is why all the (mostly-evil) governments that signed the Geneva Conventions agreed not to do it. And don't. Unless they're already committing genocide and just want to impress their own people (and others) with their power.
what will the propagation of imagery of war crimes via the internet to countless viewers do to the populations of complicit nations? do you speculate it will break resistance by a kind of inoculation to despair and powerlessness or increase it?
Not I. Have heard of Robert Anton Wilson somewhere, never read any of his writing tho.
Who knows but I wish I could have my time back from watching Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. I was worse off in every way from having watched it.
I had the misfortune to listen to an interview with Rahm Emanuel wherein he was complaining that no one was held accountable for either the âwars of choiceâ in Iraq and Afghanistan or for the financial system blow-up in 2008. Thankfully the interviewer called out that HE HIMSELF was in the position to do the job of holding people accountable at the time. And. Did. Not. Do. So.
Like a politician he kept on talking right through the point, unscathed.
for sure, not saying itâs right, rather an observation that the power is imbalanced and the people who donât pay as much and have greater power probably arenât incentivized to change the status quo
one question is how enforcement plays out based on what bracket youâre inâi.e. those 87,000 newly armed IRS agents probably arenât knocking on any billionairesâ doors
one hour like this and just now noticedâand the song is only one minute long 𤨠
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