That’s objectively good news. But sadly the cycle will continue until the apartheid and the occupation are dismantled.

I hope they send him the bill for the work-hours the police wasted. What a tool.

Early 20th century analog: politics in the US and Canada is beholden to the steam engine lobby, while China is moving to corner the combustion engine market.

We’ve been telling conservidiots that climate change is a national security threat for decades. But nooooo, they keep rolling coal like the knuckleheads that they are all the while pretending they are smart independent free thinkers. Fucking idiots, man.

Using “cultural appropriation” to drag down regular people is kind of pointless, like freaking out at someone for putting the wrong recyclable type of plastic trash in the garbage.

Cultural appropriation matters at the corporate level, where media shapes what regular people do. Do you want to talk about cultural appropriation? Talk about Disney, talk about Hollywood, talk about Jeep Cherokee, and Decathlon Quechua. To keep with the recycling analogy: your problem shouldn’t be ordinary people messing up their trash sorting, it should be vendors mass producing plastic trash for everything.

Ditch the GDP, it doesn’t count what truly matters in a civilized society anyway.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Lol, you aren’t engaging with my argument at all. What even is the point of this interaction?

In the article you posted elsewhere in the thread she is quoted as saying:

“In my respectful dissenting opinion the dispute between the State of Israel and the people of Palestine is essentially and historically a political one. It is not a legal dispute susceptible to judicial settlement by the Court,”

I think we would both agree with Mark Kersten, cited in the article, that she’s wrong about that.

It explains however why she would vote the way she did. She is of the opinion that the court does not have jurisdiction, and the rest of her behaviour follows from that. That again does not constitute bias, it constitutes a consistently held (albeit wrong, according to Mark, me, you, and the court majority) opinion.

Listen, I am standing up for her not because she’s right, but because I think that politically this narrative of pro- and anti- Israel justices serves the Israeli Apartheid establishment in undermining the authority of the court.

I think you are misusing the word “bias”. Has she shown any systematic partiality for Israel? Has she expressed over and over again that she is willing to bend the rules for Israel? Is there an inclination?

One opinion does not indicate bias. It is one opinion for a specific issue at a specific time. Bias would be something that happens over and over and shows some kind of inclination. US policy is biased in favour of Israel, while Iranian policy is biased against it. Irish policy, for example, is neither.

Because be very careful here: the same logic applies for the judges who argued to accept South Africa’s case. If “bias for/against” means “they took a favourable/disfavourable position”, then by that definition, the ICJ majority is …anti-Israel. Which is of course exactly the line that the Israeli Apartheid establishment is pushing, that the world is somehow out to get Israel.

I resent the outlet’s labelling of the judge as “pro-Israel”, because that implies that the other judges are “anti-Israel”. The job of the judges is not to be pro or anti whatever country. It is to be judges and interpret the law to the best of their ability.

One more thing that the article fails to do is explain what the ICJ president, giving the impression that the president has the power to shift the opnions of the court in this or that direction. For those interested, here is what the president does.

In effect, the article, as written, politicizes the ICJ and pushes a narrative that legal proceedings against Israel’s conduct have nefarious “anti-Israel” motivations. Fuck. That. When the ICJ ruled against Ecuador, it was not “anti-Ecuador”. Israel is not special.

Yup, big fan of his work, really pissed off to find out he’s such an asshole. But I’m glad we live in an era where creeps can get their due. Fuck this guy.

I wholeheartedly agree with your overall idea, but I think that Netanyahu is not some singular nexus of the bad politics of the Israeli Right. Without Netanyahu, the existing apartheid structure would still produce almost the same outcomes. Probably at a lower intensity and a bit less brazenly, yes, but it’s systemic at this point.

“The Palestinians teach their kids to hate us.”

Oh don’t worry, you guys do a much better job.

I blame extreme wealth inequality. It makes people find it hard to have empathy for sociopathic capitalists.

Breaking: self proclaimed genius is, in fact, an idiot.

That’s between 8 and 10 on the Beaufort scale, holy mother of holy mothers!

Is this wind intensity caused by the fire?

Would make sense, if it wasn’t an exploitation scheme.

In the end, without some kind of society to support you, all you can do with your wealth is stick it up your ass.

(Like not you zarathustra0, the figurative “you”.)

There is no elite prime plan for climate change, bitch.