You’re correct, the ICC’s jurisdiction has never been recognized by the US, or a bunch of other countries for that matter. They could still prosecute individuals and convict them, but the US wouldn’t hand them over, and it’s not likely that anyone would attempt to come get them.

There is a pretty large number of ICC fugatives from all over the world, notably Russian and Israeli officials. Afaik, France and the UK are the only two UN members with veto power that recognize the ICC’s official jurisdiction.

None of these demands are remotely acceptable to European leaders, either. Donbas is the part the headlines focus on, but the security guarantees sought by Russia are more egregious, given they would leave Ukraine totally defenseless.

I heard about this on the “If Books Could Kill” podcast. Pretty hilarious stuff.

Edit: Actually, I think it was Maintenance Phase. I listen to anything Michael Hobbes does.

Even if I don’t learn anything new, it’s always good to refresh. It’s literally one hour out of my year, so not much of a sink.

In the US, I don’t think anyone reads their state driver manual. I read it every year because it’s the only thing I can be sure of that makes me better than 99% of everyone else.

Feel a real sense of superiority

Jake Hanrahan, from Popular Front, recently made a documentary about favelas with footage and interviews from a number of gang members. It’s part of a project called Away Days and there is also a podcast of the same name.

Garry

If this played out like a procedural crime drama, the DoJ would be interviewing everyone on these flight logs to figure out who is connected to crimes and how much everyone knew at the time. That will never happen, since all of these people have lawyers on retainer and won’t answer anything.

I mean, even if they are innocent and were totally unaware of any wrongdoing, they still wouldn’t willfully open themselves up to this questioning.

The official line is that they are victims who were trafficked.

Pam Bondi said back in February that they would release the list as soon as they had redactions for all of the victims.

Roughly 1M anecdotes in the comments already

So very heartwarming the ethnic cleansing has been for Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, and the Western hegemonic powers happily letting it go on to keep Azeri oil flowing cheaply.

Yes, it’s a relief that the war is ending, but do not construe this as some fairy-tale ending.

It’s an extraordinarily racist and ignorant posture to take. African American Vernacular English is a widely known dialect at this point and is really interesting to learn about.

Old Testament Jesus

Is ignoring robots.txt considered “honest”?

It’s the first thing I think of when I see that creepy shriveled windbag.

Yeah let the Harvard alums cover the 3b. If it’s anything like all the other land grant universities in the country, they are just using it to build swanky dorms.

Yeah no shit, they fucking ass. I still voted for Harris with puke in my mouth, though. For me to back another Dem for president in the future, it needs to be someone I want to vote for. Otherwise, I’m voting for whatever candidate aligns most closely with my values.

I think we agree on the broad points, I just don’t think that the Harris campaign position on genocide was a big enough factor to swing the election either way. I believe all of their policy positions were calculated to protect party funding streams as much or more than winning the election.

The problems with Dems are so systemic, that it reaches far beyond that single campaign. How many congressional seats did they also lose? How many state legislatures are Republican super majority?

I’m not very clever on solutions, but involvement in local politics is where it starts. This is where I honestly think we are truly well fucked, though. People are too fucking busy and scraping by to get involved. Even though the people doing it for the Democrats are super old and burned out in most cases, they want young people to get more involved and will appoint them to positions and run them for councils and shit.

That’s what the right did. Grass roots shit, school boards, party committee headquarters, etc. I just assume someone else who is smarter, more qualified, and motivated is taking care of that shit, but that’s probably not the case.

I don’t think it’s as unilateral across the party, but the leadership certainly have let Israel and AIPAC too far up their ass. For politics it’s all just money imo.

Also, a lot of people do not care, especially older folks who remember Israel being scrappy in the 60s, or just care about how to pay for their health care or mortgage. Gaza and West Bank genocide is really important to the internet, but a lot of people in their 40s and up are not online much.

It’s the cynicism that is bred by and fuels the political furnace. Cynicism can be understood and respected by your opposition.

Those decades have been spent working to keep progressive and leftist voices out of their party, especially ones that threaten their scaffolding of seniority and stability. They have actively prevented the DNC from what the right pulled off with the Tea Party Movement by tightening the reigns on primaries, disenfranchising and ignoring grassroots movements showing good faith, selling out to corporate lobbies, keeping fresh ideas out of policy by manipulating committee appointments, and so much more.

And are they sorry at all when their machinations play into the hands of fascists? No, they actually seem fucking proud of it.