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[cat @psybrcat]

@DCNewsLive what app is this?

[cat @psybrcat]

@ATPJudge @OkieLibSherry @namelessvoid85 @BridgetCambria8 good to know, thanks

[cat @psybrcat]

@ReichlinMelnick @politico do you know which visa classifications are being affected by this? A, B, F, E, IB, BX etc

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

this is right now. under a Democratic president.

[cat @psybrcat]

fucking insane

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

oh my god I have never seen a brawl like this on CNN

[GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic]

if this was an American-made MK-84 that came as part of any arms package from the last 3 years, I think this account should post about it. they need all the Biden Wins they can muster right now, and this could possibly qualify

[Houston Chronicle @HoustonChron]

Food Not Bombs trial rescheduled after too many jurors objected to $500 fine for feeding homeless https://t.co/dl1m5sZm8y

[professional hog groomer @bidetmarxman]

In 2022, Nord Stream was bombed, forcing Germany to import gas from the US.

In 2023, the govt of Niger—France's largest supplier of uranium—was overthrown in a coup.

Are these events connected? 🧵

[Shirley | AI & Crypto @shirleyusy]

@zhusu @BoredApeYC 腦殘

[Avery Edison @aedison]

I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

[August - standing with ☮️ @AugustLund0]

There is no "International law", but only what is decided in Washington, and even @potus has been told he should not use that term, as there is no law behind it and as an American law professor wrote the other day "only people from the losing nation go to Hague". This is why the people charged and detained by the International Criminal Court (ICC) always come from weaker nations – predominantly African – while the US can get away with actually sanctioning ICC staff if they so much as talk about to investigate US war crimes and suffer no consequences for it at all. It is also why in 2002 the Bush administration introduced what became known as the "Hague Invasion Act", stressing that military force will be used to free any US or US-allied military personnel from any attempt by the ICC to prosecute them for war crimes. It is also why Noam Chomsky famously said that if the Nuremberg Laws had continued to be applied with fairness and consistency, then every post-WWII US president would have been hanged.
The problem here should be obvious - If we don't hold our own leaders accountable, we can't hold other leaders accountable. If the law is not applied consistently, it is not the law. It is simply an excuse we use to target our enemies.
We didn't just fail to punish Bush, Blair or you Fogh, etc.: we rewarded them. We re-elected them. We knighted them and unfortunately it's not just about Iraq in 2003, it's about everything we do.
Objectively, the West does not occupy any moral high ground in relation to China, Russia, India, etc. The West holds all records when it comes to imperialism and colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries, the West's recent aggressions against the peoples of Indo-China, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq were more serious and more murderous than the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Western actions have resulted in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed with total impunity, thereby creating "precedents of permissibility" now followed by Russia and others.
The problem is that we in the USA, England, Germany, etc actually believe our own propaganda. It is not a matter of hypocrisy, but a matter of faith. Since high school, we are indoctrinated to believe that we are "the good guys" per definition, and that we have a mission to bring democracy and human rights to the rest of the world. This may sound amazing to a Chinese, an Indian or an African, but the brainwashing of the American and European population has been phenomenally successful. So shouldn't we really start by stopping the crimes we in the "Collective West" commits first?
The responsibility of every reflective person is to look within first!
#hypocrisy #internationallaw #ICC

[Michael Martin @aero_doc_martin]

@NewYorker Publishing this article with no discussion of how problematic a grad student/faculty relationship is a decision by the New Yorker to normalize abusive behavior.

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

Tell me carefully, how is this not a riot, where mobs publicly lynch fellow Hong Kongers who disagree with them.

Donnie Yen is absolutely right.

[Dan Collins @DanCollins2011]

“China depends on us.” Actually no… they don’t. Just because the U.S is dependent on China making products for them doesn’t mean China depends on us. They could stop the trade ships and the U.S will never recover. The depression would be unlike anything you have ever seen. We couldn’t even make container ships to buy goods from 3rd party countries.

[Synthesia @Synthesia]

@psybrcat Not that I know of. For what it's worth, our web server never sees your credit card details. That info goes through Stripe directly. (And if they're breached, it'll be on the news.)

I'm sorry you have to deal with that kind of trouble though, especially around the holidays.

[cat @psybrcat]

@Synthesia was your payment database compromised? i paid for Synthesia without paypal a few days ago, and my card was used without my knowledge today

you are one of the only non-paypal websites i have used that card, that's why i'm asking

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at [email protected]