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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7243721
What would justice look like? I’m genuinely curious. There isn’t a court outside of America that can hold the president accountable, and the other option is war, which would be deadly on a massive scale. It’s insane that impeachment hasn’t happened yet, and unless the legislative branch does something to remove the cancer from the White House, then I don’t see justice being delivered.
This whole situation is a nightmare.
There isn’t a court outside of America that can hold the president accountable
Sure there is.
Literally any country that has had one of its citizens involved in Epstein's sex trafficking can issue a warrant for Trump's arrest and prosecution as an accomplice / co-conspirator.
Why the fuck not?
If we can kidnap a President of another country, and try them, for domestic crimes... so can anyone else!
That's the precedent Trump just set.
Why respect really any international laws or norms, when it comes to the US?
We don't!
Maybe I'm being a bit pessimistic here, but I somehow don't see Cuba launching a massive air-sea operation to capture Trump in Mar-a-Lago while he's busy jerking off to kiddie porn with his tiny little hands.
Even some liberals are starting to see the obvious here... courts of law doesn't matter.
Why respect really any international laws or norms, when it comes to the US?
Because they have big guns and they're not afraid to use them.
So do a lot of other people, now we're back to a bunch of Hobbes' Leviathans, vying for power like brutes, in the lawless 'state of nature'.
States will now increasingly just do whatever they can get away with, and still save any face that they care to save.
Jesus, we just had to arrest all the world dictators? Well Jesus, nobody said it was so easy! Gosh we could have got Putin AGES ago!
Ah but why didn't we?
Oh, thats right.
Because laws and norms are a formality, a kind of etiquette, a masquerade, nothing more, really.
Power does whatever the fuck it wants to, justifies it however it wants to.
If it doesn't do something... it's because it doesn't want to.
and unless the legislative branch does something to remove the cancer from the White House, then I don’t see justice being delivered
Unfortunately, this is America and it always has been. This isn't a cancer, it's the system functioning as intended and as it always has.
Justice won't be served, but cheer up. You can also argue this is just business as usual. For example, this is not the first foreign leader the US has kidnapped. There have been a few. Fun fact: Noriega* was also kidnapped on the third of January. And hey, if Maduro is convicted for drug trafficking, maybe Trump can pardon him like he did the former drug trafficking president of Honduras.
Sure, Hegseth is an alcoholic nazi. But unlike Colin Powell, he didn't start his career in politics by whitewashing the My Lai massacre, and hasn't contributed to the death of up to 1.2 million people (yet).
And if the government of Venezuela doesn't decide to spontaneously cave and Trump does decide to send the troops in, I'm sure this particular Special Military Operation will be over in three days.
*Bit of a tangent, have you read the wikipedia article on Noriega? It's a real eye-opener. For example:
... The district court held that information about the operations in which Noriega had played a part supposedly in return for payment from the U.S. was not relevant to his defense. It ruled that "the tendency of such evidence to confuse the issues before the jury substantially outweighed any probative value it might have had." ... Information about Noriega's connections to the CIA, including his alleged contact with Bush, were kept out of the trial.
They convicted him of drug trafficking, but failed to mention to the jury that he'd also been doing it for the US government and the CIA.
TLDR: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Never mind the fact that the only reason the CIA's boy - Noriega - came to power in Panama was thanks to the assassination of Omar Torrijos... almost certainly at the hands of the CIA.
His son Martín Torrijos was also president for a bit. Elected, not a dictator.
The Trump administration revoked his visa a few months ago. Basically a warning not to criticise the US government.
So I wouldn't be surprised if that's one of the next interventions. Venezuela, Cuba, Columbia, Mexico, Panama, ...
On the bright side as a European, perhaps this will keep Trump distracted for a few years, before he starts bombing Greenland and Denmark.
It’s ~~insane~~ completely unsurprising that impeachment hasn’t happened yet
Otherwise yeah...
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I don't get the use of the word "demonic". Demons aren't real, the US however, is.
One of the things I've realized over the years is that it's so hard to talk to people about capitalism and AmeriKKKan imperialism in particular because the reality is so much more evil than the rest of humanity is able to come up with, and the actual words (e.g. capitalism) are taboo.
Like if demons were real, the AmeriKKKan capitalist class would be worse.
And IMO, it's usually a safe choice to sacrifice some precision for agitprop.
... that's a fairly funny thing to say, from a person with the username y0kai.
Even funnier that it's being called out by someone with the username being a l33t sp34k version of the word "spectral"
I mean, I'm all in favor of spooky, fantastic, imagery and language, with layered meanings and connotations, when appropriate.
I'm not arguing against it's use, with a mildly leet-speak version of a kind of demon/vengeful spirit from Japanese folklore, as a username.
... Do you see the difference?
I'm not saying you're against it. I'm just saying it's a funny coincidence that your name is also a word for a supernatural entity related to ghosts/spirits.
Ah!
Well then, I guess we'll have to see if a shinigami or phantasm shows up, maybe a poltergeist will figure out how to work a keyboard =P
They didn't call them demons, they called them demonic
I don't see a problem.
The idea is to create resonance - not dot the "i"s on some secular fundamentalist check list.
Name is weirdly appropriate.
It certainly has the right... but that doesn't mean it has the ability. These creeps just waltzed in and did their dirty business just like that - I'd hate to be a member of the Venezuelan military right now.
One thing is for certain - the global south simply cannot rely on conventional militaries for protection.
No one is safe. Not even allies.
The US doesn't have any allies - just patsies it hasn't stabbed in the back yet.
Sorry to break it to you, but the US has already stabbed most of its allies in the back on at least one occasion.
You "hate to break" something to me that I literally stated in the post you are responding to?
You said US allies are "patsies it hasn’t stabbed in the back yet."
I was pointing out they (invariably) have been stabbed in the back already.
That was fundamentally implied in the statement, don't you think?
My comment fundamentally implied it wasn't.
You're welcome.
Ie, it's a you problem.
Bye.
My comment fundamentally implied it was a you problem.
You're welcome. LOL
Putting the flip in flippanarchy
The global south is so ruined and in so much turmoil almost exclusively due to the damage caused by powerful countries in the north
This is really unfair to those of us called demonic by our parents.
Can we rephrase this with less splash damage?
How about AmeriKKKan?
Works.
When (y)our parents say it, they are referring to actual demons though
Who also don't deserve this slander!
Oh cool... it's an elephant stomping on a donkey. ... never seen that before. Fresh perspective. :)