Considering Israel’s history, I don’t know how much agreement there would be between my estimation of military value and the current administration’s.

“© those which employ a method or means of combat the effects of which cannot be limited as required by this Protocol; and consequently, in each such case, are of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians or civilian objects without distinction.”

Would you like to explain how setting up bombs within the personal devices of enemy combatants is striking civilians or civilian objects without distinction? Or do you think all collateral damage is a war crime?

Like, fuck’s sake, not every dogshit act by a criminal state like Israel is a war crime. Jesus H. Christ.

It’s important to note that this is the consensus of much of the international community and the US (and I presume its surrogate Israel) have not signed on to the above provision despite speaking to support it. The weasely approach we (the US) have taken to these standards really demonstrates how hollow our sentiments are when we feign moral authority in international affairs.

Was this really all just to say “US BAD” and “US PUPPET ISRAEL”? Holy shit.

An old joke

Question: What does a lesbian bring on a second date?

Answer: A U-Haul.

It is considered a staple of lesbian humor.[5] It is often attributed to comic Lea DeLaria,[6][7] who claimed in her 1997 comedy album, Box Lunch, that she had written it in 1989 — in the album, she gets the audience to yell back the punchline, showing it was already well-known at the time of recording.[8]

As there are numerous U-Hauls involved here, clearly it’s a polycule

-According to Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, combatants are:

the armed forces of a party to a conflict, and also groups and units that are under a command responsible to that party for the conduct of its subordinates, even if that party is answerable to a government or an authority not recognized by an adverse party. Such armed forces shall be subject to an internal disciplinary system, which, inter alia, shall enforce compliance with the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict

I dunno man. I just feel like if you’re at the point where you can clandestinely intercept huge amounts of your enemy’s personal communication devices, ‘turn them into bombs’ feels like a bit of a low-yield outcome.

Explanation: When Julius Caesar was sieging the Gallic fortified town of Alesia, he built two walls - one to keep the Gauls in Alesia, in Alesia; and one to keep Gallic reinforcements out of his camp, leaving the Romans nestled between the two armies. A siege within a siege!

https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/tizoc-stone.htm

We’re preserving the history and contributions of those who tore it down!

Unfortunately, I made this meme a while ago and lost the book when I was moving. It was in “The Classical Cookbook: Revised Edition” though!

Don’t worry, we only approve of Soviet style here, not Soviet atrocities.

Fried chicken is as American as apple pie, for Christ’s sake! “African-Americans like an American staple!”, uh, yes?? How is that supposed to be a distinguishing mark amongst Americans, much less a bad one??

Racists are not just ignorant and malicious bastards. They’re also deeply weird.

I really don’t get it. Other than the “WAOW” factor, this certainly can’t have been a good use of resources for Israel.

That includes people who are members of your enemy’s military.

No, members of an enemy’s military are combatants regardless of whether they’re holding a gun or in a firefight at the time. The only exception is personnel such as chaplains and medics.

The period of time where the KPD became Stalinist and Thalmann took over?

Thalmann didn’t consolidate his power until 1928, so unless 1920-1928 has a different meaning than the obvious one…

When the Nazis became powerful with th3 support of the ebtrenched hyper right wing?

The Nazis became powerful in 1920-1928.

Are you sure you want to keep to that claim.

The SA 100% grew out of Freikorps.

Your claim was that the Freikorps ‘converted’ into orgs like the SA. Which is not even vaguely true. Like, I don’t really know how to carry on a conversation with someone who looks at the independent paramilitaries of the Freikorps and sees the same thing as a fucking street fighting arm of a minor political party because both are comprised of right-wing WW1 veterans.

And 1920-1928 is not the 8 years prior to 1931, or a half decade.

Being so loosey goosey with these things doesn’t mesh with the kinds of statements you keep making here.

it FORCED Thalmann, coming into power in a KPD that had had a very productive relationship with the SPD for the past 8 or so years, to cooperate with the literal Nazis.

Your lack of literacy is not my problem. Sorry that “Thalmann came into power in 1928 after 8 or so years of a productive relationship between the KDP and SDP” is too complex for you to parse.

Even so: that period of time where Freikorps effectively disbanded was when they converted into orgs like Consul or the SA starting in the 1920s. That component isn’t as fragmented or inconsequential as it may seem. There is continuity there and it isn’t insane to know about it.

The idea of comparing the Freikorps with the SA is insane. Consul was disbanded in 1922 by government repression. But hey, who gives a fuck about facts when you can play Bothsides™ games?

They really did not.

Oh, okay, so the period between 1920-1928 just didn’t exist, cool cool cool.

https://www.rmo.nl/museumkennis/archeologie-van-nederland/nederland-in-de-romeinse-tijd/de-voorwerpen/terra-sigillata-luxe-aardewerk/

Explanation: Julian the Apostate was the last Pagan Emperor of Rome. He pursued a policy of religious tolerance across the Empire - which deeply upset the unified Christian Church, who had spent the past 40 years cheerfully persecuting heathens and heretics. Treating people equally is DEEPLY unfair to the TRUE faith, after all!

Macron et co hate the far-right more than the left, but only barely. Once the far-right was no longer in danger of being in control, Macron felt safe to fuck over the left by going with a fellow neoliberal shill.

Dunno, that might be true in general, but he’d only do it when we were in the living room.

Fuck Macron. It’s a shame this won’t remove him.