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Apartheid in South Africa was ended because nations chose individually to apply sanctions to oppose the inhuman conditions in the country. You don’t need world police to enforce international law, it has meaning and substance through countries choosing to stand up for decency.
Without international law, and rubbishing standards of decency as meaningless without a global world police, leads down a very dark path. The horrors of the mid 20th century, like the holocaust and atrocities committed by Japan, among many other examples, happened under a might makes right mentality. Many international laws about crimes against humanity were a response to this to prevent it being repeated, because it is utterly horrific
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World News@lemmy.ml•Trump sends a letter Today to Morocco’s king to confirm that US joins Israel in recognizing Morocco's control over Western Sahara
14·2 days agoLemme guess, this is a reward for sending the mob to crash the borders with Ceuta (Spain)
The League of Nations was a precursor to the UN which did include enforcement, it turns out that is really complicated. One description was that collective security:
failed ultimately because of the reluctance of nearly all the nations in Europe to proceed to what I might call military sanctions … The real reason, or the main reason, was that we discovered in the process of weeks that there was no country except the aggressor country which was ready for war … [I]f collective action is to be a reality and not merely a thing to be talked about, it means not only that every country is to be ready for war; but must be ready to go to war at once. That is a terrible thing, but it is an essential part of collective security.
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News@lemmy.world•Reddit stock collapses 23% as AI eats away at user growth
6·3 days agoHere’s your ), you lost it about halfway through
And if you don’t know you don’t know
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•From the day you were born until today, what was the best piece of advice you still follow?
10·5 days agoSo… take your time?
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Technology@lemmy.world•eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaignEnglish
4·5 days agoDefinitely
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Technology@lemmy.world•eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaignEnglish
8·6 days agoIf eBay, Amazon and Facebook are all cesspits, where can you buy stuff online in a decent way? Search small shops individually?
Colonialism was occupation for wealth extraction, it relied on exploiting a local population for economic gain. That is different from ethnically cleansing the population and taking their land
You might have more luck with a hamster, pythons are not hairy
What is the orca about, did I miss something? Please let it be sinking a boat with all of the tech bro billionaires on it…
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Technology@lemmy.world•I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.English
2·12 days agoThere’s other camera apps which remove the awful filters that automatically get applied and give more manual control, for example open camera or camera on fdroid
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World News@lemmy.world•Israel Refused to Help Ukraine to Avoid ‘Upsetting Russia,’ Former UK Defence Secretary SaysEnglish
41·14 days agoWell that’s an understatement, the countries are closely aligned with trying to destroy final institutions like international law, war crimes, and both are actively trying to redraw borders through force, not to mention the leaders having active arrest warrants from the ICC. That’s before you even get started on the Epstein blackmail network and manipulation of influential people around the world. They are so aligned the most surprising thing is that people are surprised by statements like this
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Just Post@lemmy.world•Remember, kids! Capitalism can and will crush you under its heel. It's happened before.
2·14 days agoCan you give an example?
“Imagine if I had played for Spain instead”
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•volkswagen’s smart eBike puts a rear-view camera between the handlebars
6·15 days agoSeeing behind can be tricky on a bike, it’s not safe to turn your head when moving fast and often you need to watch in front as well as see behind, eg to pass an obstacle. Some kind of rear view can be handy, although mirrors are also possible to use
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World News@lemmy.world•Germany moves to criminalize denial of Israel's existence | The Jerusalem PostEnglish
9·22 days agoSo… does calling for a revised state in Israel/Palestine that is democratic and without bias towards one race break this law? It is calling for Israel in its current form to be replaced










When is Anubis useful (eg vs CloudFlare)? The GitHub page doesn’t say much-