In my experience most parents will do anything for their kids, except change their planet-fucking-lifestyles or fight for a future their children might get to survive.
Earth’s hottest recorded day was 16.92°C (62.46°F) on 24 July 2022
We’ve broken this record on each of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 July 2023, so far
It’s the hottest it’s been in 125,000 years. Now back to drilling for oil everyone
Question for the economists out there.
If unearned income from capital gains, dividends and inheritance were to be taxed at the same rates as wages, what would be the net gain to the Exchequer?
Apart from being morally disgusting, dropping unmarked minefields leaving scattered explosives to kill children for years, cluster bombs are a weapon that admits the vaunted "counter offensive" is a failure.
If you are going forward you don't sow a minefield in front of you.
I do hope that Biden supplying cluster munitions to Ukraine, with inevitable long term civilian casualties, will make more people realise this war is more morally complex than simply good vs evil.
The solution is not more and quicker killing and maiming of people, but diplomacy.
It is now public that the Biden administration is giving Ukraine cluster bombs. And the U.S. is offering risible caveats about why this is an acceptable act rather than a clear case of facilitating war crimes. Remember that the U.S. condemned Russia for using these bombs in Ukraine and said it was a violation of international law.
The U.S. has repeatedly used these heinous weapons, going back to the war in Vietnam and the "secret" bombings of Cambodia. In the modern era, both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush used them. President Barack Obama used cluster bombs in a 2009 attack in Yemen that killed some 55 people, the majority of them women and children. Despite an international ban, which was finalized in 2008 and went into effect in 2010, the U.S. continued to sell cluster bombs to nations like Saudi Arabia, which regularly used them in its attacks in Yemen.
In 2017, President Donald Trump reversed an internal U.S. policy aimed at limiting the use of certain types of cluster munitions, a move which a Human Rights Watch expert warned "could embolden others to use cluster munitions that have caused so much human suffering."