Or calling a massive civilian bridge "dual use" so you can bomb it. Basically as long as you can argue some military vehicle might use infrastructure, it's a valid target, according to the US.
Miltary dudes are experts at coming up with ways to make illegal shit look legal enough to say it's a legal order. That's likely why CENTCOM announced a blockade of Iranian ports rather than the Strait of Hormuz like Trump said. Both are illegal but the former "passes" their legal bureacracy better
Okay, and you wasting your time to write this instead of canvassing for Democrats in real life means youre fine with whoever you couldve convinced to vote for Democrats not voting because they didnt know how or needed help. Two can play your game.
It's not an exaggeration to say there is no tent without trans and queer organizing. Most of the ICE protests this year were largely backed by trans people, queer people, and women, while cishet white liberal elites spent that time blaming their failures on trans people or Twitch streamers.
one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"
Yeah I mean my point is that the point of the law is to oppose immoral acts of war and it's obvious this entire war and everything that came from it has been oppositional to everything international law stands for, regardless of whether op can find some loophole
People arguing that any part of this criminal war is "legal" shows how dead international law has become since the genocide in Palestine.
International law was never about law. It is about formerly-widely agreed morals and principles that have been thoroughly discarded by both parties in the US.
Minor correction/misspeak--the protests were around 100k, which is still a huge number for a banned event.
But it's not an exaggeration to say that queer organizers defeating Orban's crackdown on Pride last year showed that his power could be defeated with enough solidarity and defiance.
Right-wingers keep spelling out the link between regressive gender politics and authoritarian rule if people would only pay attention.
So you've done nothing, got it!
The idea that it's socially unacceptable to oppose ethnostates is so ridiculous. I dont think any specific religion or ethnicity "has a right" to a state.
And no, the NY state verdict doesnt count. There were no federal jury criminal verdicts against Trump before November 2024. It took years before charges were even brought.
Biden had four years and his DOJ couldnt even bring Trump to a jury verdict on any of his more serious crimes before the 2024 election, let alone any of his cronies. The idea that the Democratic party of today has any interest in deradicalizing MAGA and holding them accountable is delusional
im sorry but we dont have to "deliver" democrats anything. they have to deliver US reasons to vote for them in droves.
if you seriously believe that friend of Charlie Kirk Gavin Newsom will arrest anyone in MAGA, expand the supreme court, etc even with 60 senate votes, you are wrong.
Well Joe Walsh is literally a Republican and wants that outcome so i think i understand why he says this
So what did you do to protest the genocide of Palestinians or the bombing of Lebanon?
people like this are why it takes years for victims of people like Swalwell or Franken to come out to the public about the abuse they face. this behavior is humiliating and you all should feel ashamed. Even Dem politicians don't go this far.
you know who else smiled in photos? Epstein's victims.
from an ethical standpoint i think that when you personaly feel iffy about a mutual aid request it's definitely okay to simply do nothing and shut your fucking mouth
I agree! not a big fan of the winning party, just pointing out that queer people helped break Orban's grip before any election did
so if we are basing our politics and shaming off of opportunity costs rather than actual direct impacts of our actions, every liberal who wastes their time with yelling at leftists on their internet is voting for Trump several times!
liberals always say this but it's mathematically false. a vote for a Republican is a vote for a Republican. the opportunity cost of not voting for either is equal to half a vote for each party. the opportunity cost of chastising leftists instead of canvassing for Democrats is more than one vote.
I don't care about Hasan Piker and he doesn't matter, but if it's Gavin v Vance, I'm out. They're the same dude. Slimy dipshit ghoulish oppprtunists. Neither is getting my vote
What have you done to protest? are you willing to lose your job, go to prison, get deported?
NEW: There is real appetite among House members in both parties to expel Swalwell, Gonzales, Cherfilus-McCormick and Mills in one go and be done with it, @axios.com has found.
"We want a full house cleaning," said one Democrat. "Get the garbage out of here."
www.axios.com/2026/04/12/s...
21 Hours in Pakistan: How Vance Tried and Failed to End a War He Opposed
THREAD. This single headline in the NYT contains two outrageous claims reported as fact: 1) Vance "tried" to end the war; and 2) he "opposed" it. Neither is supported, but the thing to understand is: why is lying about the *intention* of powerful people so key to propaganda?
Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country.
Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.
Since Nuremberg in 1945, international law has established that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is a punishable war crime.
No serious international lawyer would deny that this is what Israel is doing in South Lebanon.
Reminds me of how the ashes and light from the LA fires last year turned the moon completely blood red just weeks before Trump was inaugurated. If I was religious, I would definitely be some kind of Satanist after that lmao
Hillary Clinton called universal health care a pony and didn’t pay for one of her top staffers cancer treatment. They had to do a go fund me
American slave, American slave and American slave should negotiate a separate peace unfortunately requires something to change about them, probably the slave part.