It is still considered complicity in violating humanitarian law.

If it only takes an hour to convince someone of a world-changing idea then we’d have an abundance of revolutions that come and go. I mosly found “success” by directing questions to my interlocutor, so I would be in control more or less of where the discussion is heading while maintaining the other person’s introspective and critical spirit. The goal is for them to leave the discussion with something to think deeply about.

If he’s wealthy then he has a lot of assets which can serve as a guarantee for the creditor.

I have a friend who uses it religiously, and I found out they would sometimes sneak pictures of people around them, including me. Totally uncool behavior!

Disinformation on my racism app?? I find it hard to believe!

You’re welcome!

Just gonna leave this here

You thought Lemmy’s co-founder and main developer is a bot? Lmao

Despite the importance of the UN in international law, it is in no real way a superordinate authority, and therefore there is no monopoly of legitimate coercion and hence interpretation internationally. The only bodies able to provide the necessary coercion for international law are the subjects of that law themselves, the states. Given the extraordinary disparities of power between those states, and given that the real content of the legal regulation will be the struggle between them, it is no wonder that materially effective international law, as opposed to the high phrases and noble interpretations of the idealists, has favoured the stronger states and their clients.

International law is a relationship and a process: it is not a fixed set of rules but a way of deciding the rules . And the coercion of at least one of the players, or its threat, is necessary as the medium by which particular contents will actualise the broader content of competitive struggle within the legal form.

– China Miéville, Between Equal Rights, p.151.

Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan. It’s a tale set in 5th-century Egypt and the Levant, following a coptic monk’s journey amidst the theological controversies of the early Christian curch. Apart from the protagonist (and his devilish visitor) I think all the characters are historically real as well as for the events. It’s a very interesting period during which Christians, Jews and Atheists coexisted, although perturbently.

Failing my studies as I am simultaneously naked.

People use AI for making “art” not because of their lack of ability to create art per se, but they use it rather as a way to cut costs in their commercial projects and skip contracting real artists. This is why it’s malicious. I wouldn’t care if somoeone uses it for pure, private leisure.

Hezbollah was effectively paralyzed by the recurring airstrikes on its depots and tunnels, followed by an unfavourable ceasefire agreement which the US sanctioned (and which unsurprisingly Israel itself has violated countless of times). Israeli hegemony onthe borders and beyond has been normalized, and Hezbollah is currently laying low to avoid further damage, be it from the IDF attacking its locations or the Lebanese army dismantling its weapons.

The admins are principled Marxists so they wouldn’t sell out or concede without a fight.

What client do you use?

Thank you for your input! I read your review and I appreciate the fact that you mentioned History, that “great disorderly Tangle of Lines.” I refrained from tackling it mainly because of a quote that I am still struggling to wrap my head around:

As Savages commemorate their great Hunts with Dancing, so History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ, and how we have far’d. If it is undeniably so that he rose from the Dead, then the Event is taken into History, and History is redeem’d from the service of Darkness,— with all the secular Consequences, flowing from that one Event, design’d and will’d to occur. (Ch. 7, p. 75)

Also, I can’t get past how relatable M. is:

Mason gapes in despair. He’ll be days late thinking up any reply to speech as sophisticated as this.

In the hidden Journal that he gets to so seldom it should be styl’d a “Monthly”

I read your text, comprehended it, and asked a follow-up accordingly. I am not pressuring you to answer anything.

What would then be the preferable position, in your opinion?

Why do you think October 7 happened in the first place?