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Africa's Catholic hierarchy refuses same-sex blessings, says such unions are contrary to God's will (apnews.com)

In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar issued a unified statement Thursday refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples and asserting that such unions are “contrary to the will of God.”...

hottari ,

You are responding to exactly what they are doing about the situation!

ELI5 why is anarchy not "the guy with the bigger stick" making the rules?

I’m politically agnostic and have moved from a slightly conservative stance to a vastly more progressive stance (european). i still dont get the more niche things like tankies and anarchists at this point but I would like to, without spending 10 hours reading endless manifests (which do have merit, no doubt, but still)....

hottari ,

We have a better word for that. Dictatorship.

hottari ,

If the ICJ judges determine that Palestine is a victim of genocide (indeed), the same so-called global superpower, as one of the ratified members, is bound to stop Israel from committing further genocide on Palestinian people.

hottari ,

Am not even going to dignify that nonsense with a response.

hottari ,

All the 153 nations, including the US, that have signed the convention on genocide.

hottari ,
  1. The US cannot purport to defy an ICJ ruling meant for Israel.
  2. The US cannot stop the other ratified nations from carrying out their sworn obligation to stop genocide under the international genocide convention.
hottari ,

I think you are confusing the ICC with ICJ. Those are 2 different institutions.

hottari ,

Hold on there, the ICJ is not a country you can invade!

And as I said earlier, ICC & ICJ are 2 different institutions.

hottari ,

What ifs don’t add anything to the argument.

Anyway, here’s to hoping other nations will do the right thing when the ICJ ruling is passed and hold all the financial supporters of genocide against Palestinians to account.

hottari ,

Ruling is against Israel, maybe we can hope to see the U.S mentioned as a co-conspirator but am not keeping my hopes up.

hottari ,

They have no choice and let me remind you once again, the U.S is not the only powerful country that has signed the genocide convention treaty.

hottari ,

The US cannot be seen to openly support genocide against the determination of all the other countries that signed the treaty. There’s no world where what you are describing is a win.

hottari ,

Case is against Israel. What the US wants and doesn’t want doesn’t really matter here.

hottari ,

Doesn’t matter. US is not on trial here.

hottari ,

Unless Israel forces itself to become a recognized colony of the US, you don’t have a case here. IDK why you guys insist on arguing with me about some of the most basic shit. It’s almost like you support genocide but are too afraid to come out and say it.

hottari ,

Read my comment(s) again and cope with those facts.

hottari ,

A lot of these countries are at least ally of the US if not pupets, don’t count on those to do anyting about it if the US decide that they don’t care what the ICJ says.

Don’t flutter yourself too much.

If today the ICJ rules that Palestinians have been victims of genocide, that war is ending in the next few days/weeks.

You can take that to the bank.

hottari ,

When did the US get convicted of committing genocide… Where is your logic?

hottari ,

You speak as if openly supporting the genocide of a race is an acceptable norm. It has never been. Not in modern times at least.

And there are many ways for member states to enforce the ICJ’s decision on ISRAEL (IDK why I have to keep repeating myself on this single point) and the US if they get mentioned as well, economic sanctions are just one of them.

hottari ,

Hehe. Not if Hesbolla and the Houthis have anything to say on the matter.

hottari ,

And I will keep reminding you that Israel is not the US in this context.

But the US can fully back and support a genocidal “war” that came to an end all they want after Israel is expunged from Palestine.

hottari ,

There’s no international law forcing and/or forbidding any country from building nukes.

hottari ,

CONSIDER THIS MY LAST COMMENT ON THE MATTER.

AN ICJ RULING FAVOURABLE TO PALESTINE WILL BRING A SWIFT END TO THE GENOCIDE HAPPENING IN GAZA. WHETHER THE US LIKES THE OUTCOME OR NOT.

END OF STORY.

hottari ,

Dump the dollar. Dump US Treasury bond holdings. Exclude the U.S from international activities, sports etc. First two if applied with full effect from “non-allied” countries, the effects on the US economy would be devastating.

hottari ,

Gee. I wonder how North Korea was able to create their nuke stockpiles.

hottari ,

Learn to read questions before you answer them.

hottari ,

What does that have to do with the topic?

hottari ,

The US: “I am going to say I don’t support this, but I do, and all of you understand that I do, and you all know what will happen if you refuse”

True. The world has been following along with this narrative. But times are changing (the US foreign policy has never been weaker) and I don’t think when it comes to it, any country wants to be seen internationally as a supporter of genocide. The West can bluff all they want now but we all know they will be forced to drop Israel just like they did to Ukraine’s war efforts. Genocide is not a casual matter you can brush aside after an ICJ determination.

hottari ,

The facts keeps breaking your brains as regards matters international foreign policy and the issue with Israel. Unless you send U.S soldiers to continue the genocide, an ICJ determination will prevail in Gaza. Your feelings do not matter on this. Only facts.

hottari ,

The USA is not the one on trial at the Hague, so you are definitely delusional and in your feelings there. And the ICJ has before put a stop to many genocides.

hottari ,

The US has never had genocide cases brought against it to the ICJ, so you are theorizing the issue there. Instead of talking about hypotheticals, it is important to stick to factual events that actually took place while also making the distinction that the ICC is separate court that has nothing to do with the ICJ. ICJ stopped further genocide in Bosnia and recently for the Rohingya people in Myanmar. Here’s a list of all ICJ cases to date.

hottari ,

Again ICC and ICJ are 2 different courts. You are not listening to my arguments. You are responding for the sake of responding.

  1. US has had only one case against it in the ICJ brought up by Nicaragua.
  2. The Hague Invasion Act applies only to ICC and is totally irrelevant to this case as we are dealing with ICJ and to point out the obvious, it is Israel on trial not the U.S.
hottari ,

The thing about facts is that they are irrefutable and stubborn in the face of ambiguity.

Have a good day.

hottari ,

A win in this court will put pressure on other nations to remove Israel from Palestine. For similar judgements on specific perpetrators, we have the ICC. An institution well-known to be corrupted by the US/West.

hottari ,

Coz you bought their NFT dumb dumb…

hottari ,

Currently following the ICJ live feed and some lawyer is providing video testimony of Israeli soldiers having some sort of internal challenge for snuff videos of committing atrocities on Palestinians. This is what some misguided people support when they say they are Pro-Israel in this conflict btw.

hottari ,

UBI is not about wealth redistribution. The easiest way I’d describe it is if we created food stamps but for cash.

And the phenomenon you are describing where the rest of society is subsidizing the wealthy is our current reality.

UBI in a sense ditches the concept of money as an incentive tool for productivity.

hottari ,

Don’t buy the lies. AI cannot automate everything and the jobs it will replace are ones that aren’t of much value in the age of improved efficiency (which is what AI really is).

Though I won’t argue that the owners of AI will be the winners of whatever revolution comes out of this whole cacophony of noise.

hottari ,

Outrage doesn’t stop wars. We live in an autocratic system all while pretending to be in a democracy.

hottari ,

Not the uncapped US military budget and the ‘mysterious’ rise of wars popping up in almost every corner of this planet.

hottari ,

Climate apocalypse? Climate has been apocalypsing long before we humans got language to even describe it.

hottari ,

AI is nothing more than a program developed by humans.

hottari ,

Then call AI what it is. Not some skynet bot from some other planet coming to take over Earth.

hottari ,

It’s a popular culture reference from the movie The Terminator.

hottari ,

Yeah, US and China are totally buddies now.

hottari ,

This is different. AI as a transformative tech is going to usher the US economy into the next boom of prosperity. The AI revolution will change the world and allow people to decide if they want to work for money or not (read UBI). In case you haven’t caught on, am being sarcastic.

All this despite ChatGPT being a total complete joke.

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Whoopsies! "Free speech absolutist" "accidentally" suspends the accounts of journalists who are critical of him, and people whose political views he disagrees with.

He seems to have quite the habit of firing or banning people he disagrees with, doesn't he?

Via Gizmodo:

"X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, purged an unknown number of prominent accounts over the last 24 hours with little to no explanation, and then restored the accounts minutes after this article was published.

"The list includes popular accounts belonging to journalists, writers, and podcasters. Among them are Ken Klippenstein of the Intercept, writer and podcaster Rob Rousseau, Texas Observer correspondent Steven Monacelli, the account for TrueAnon, a left-wing politics and news podcast, and a number of others.

"One thing the accounts have in common is recent criticisms of the Israeli government.

...

"Musk, who calls himself a “free speech absolutist” has previously said no one should be banned from X unless they break the law.

"Update, 1:12 p.m.: Shortly after this article was published, Musk responded to a question about the issue from far-right influencer Jackson Hinkle. Musk promised to investigate, and the accounts went back up soon after. Musk later blamed the “mistake” on X’s spam algorithms. The Hamas account is still suspended."

Source: https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-journalists-banning-spree-1851151593

#X @technology

hottari ,

Musk is a fucking idiot.

hottari , (edited )

With this guy, I can only assume he’s saying so because video ads generate more profit.

Twitter has no skin in the video serving game and they have no USP there (aside from famously allowing porn). When he realizes the folly of his actions, he’ll do another U-turn like the many he’s done since purchasing Twitter.

I didn’t know this guy’s character before he bought Twitter but am now fully convinced he’s but a charlatan who’s always trying to seek the popular ‘vote’ as a billionaire.

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