NoneOfUrBusiness

I mean they killed Rachel Corrie so… Israel doesn’t need to follow the melanin laws.

I believe wrongdoers deserve justice no matter where it comes from. The law is supposed to be a way to achieve that, but if it ceases to achieve that purpose then to hell with it; I prefer incivil justice over civil injustice.

It’s an injustice, if anything. Thompson should have had his assets seized and returned to his victims, but now that opportunity is gone forever.

Do you believe it’d have ever come? Even if he was prosecuted for anything his victims weren’t gonna get a cent.

And he didn’t even do it out of some misguided religion - at least Bin Ladin thought he was making the world a better place.

For accuracy’s sake, I’ll just point out that Bin Laden didn’t do 9/11 for some misguided religion; he did it because he correctly considered the West with America at its head the cause of the state of the Middle East at the time (and right now), and especially the state of Palestine. Therefore, he targeted what he considered (whether correctly or not I can’t tell you; I wasn’t born at the time) the symbol of US capitalists who direct policy and profit from American warmongering. Not saying he was right to kill 3000 people who are almost all innocent along the way, or that it was an appropriate or even smart way of expressing these grievances, but it was nothing as simple as misguided religion that led him to blowing up the towers (and Pentagon, which I think was a lot more appropriate as a target).

How many people do you need to kill before you’re worse than Bin Laden? At least Bin Laden had legitimate grievances with (some of) his victims; this guy was killing thousands every year for money.

The violent revolutionaries added an “or else” to Ghandi’s message.

I thought in Gandhi’s case what he preached was to just not cooperate with the British occupation and let it collapse under its own weight, which is kind of its own or else. Where can I learn more about the violent revolutionaries?

if Talib uses Amnesty to prove her case, she should know it doesn’t

It does as much as Amnesty International is reputable, which is very. Just because the ICJ (not the ICC, those aren’t relevant unless you’re talking about Netanyahu specifically) hasn’t called it a genocide (optional yet) doesn’t mean it’s not in the same way you don’t need a court verdict to call a murder a murder. Amnesty did an independent investigation and published their conclusion according to the definition used in international law, which is not “when we call it a genocide”. By your logic all corrupt politicians and CEOs (including Trump before 2020) would be innocent simply because they haven’t been found guilty by a court of law. She’s appealing to logic, not to any particular enforcement mechanism of international law.

I mean that’s true, and also not relevant.

I mean they got Gaetz to resign so they weren’t wasted.

As someone who doesn’t really watch movies, I didn’t.

Just FIY those are called phrasal verbs and they’re probably the second worst thing Europeans invented after capitalism.

I wonder why there are so many entries in this page. Definitely not because Palestinians have been the victims of continuous ethnic cleansing since 19 fucking 48.

Is this an anglophones stick together kind of thing? I mean this isn’t a very productive statement to be fair but Trudeau is trying to throw Mexico under the bus to appease Trump here and they decided to put Steinbaum’s statement as the headline.

I mean isn’t that like 90% the US’s fault?

Oh I thought they were caught at the scene for some reason. Now this is a victimless crime.

Arabic speaker here and now that you mention it, the way sentences can get very long without a way to tell what the fourth “it” in the sentence refers to can be a bit of a pain, as is having to reword said sentences when writing to avoid ambiguity, but what you’re thinking of there is declensions more than gendered nouns themselves. I mean gender doesn’t hurt to have but it’s the fact that in other European languages words change shape depending on their role in the sentence that’s making the difference here.

Non-gendered wording isn’t exclusive to English. Asia exists.

I mean to be fair those languages have other ways of determining which word does what other than sentence order and vibes if my knowledge of basic Chinese is correct.

I seriously have no idea.

It’s not even extreme; that applies to most of their decisions, but not this one, which literally makes no sense. The 100% Islamic thing to do even if you don’t care about women’s lives or autonomy or any of that would be to encourage women to become doctors so they can treat other women and minimize haram mixing between genders. I mean they haven’t exactly been following Islam up to this point but this time it’s particularly egregious because it crosses from “Islam doesn’t tell you/allow you to do that what the fuck are you doing” to “Islam explicitly tells you not to do this what the fuck are you doing”.

Source: Am Muslim, up until now I could at least comprehend most of their decisions (in the sense that I was familiar with the thought process that lead to them because misogyny is everywhere around here; I obviously don’t condone any of it), but now I’m as flabbergasted as everyone else.

A creole between English and… What exactly?