GOP Senators Threaten ICC: 'Target Israel and We Will Target You'
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from jeffw@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 06 May 2024 22:47
https://lemmy.world/post/15104809
from jeffw@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 06 May 2024 22:47
https://lemmy.world/post/15104809
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Signing a document like this makes it clear you’re an antisemite.
Ooo. Scary.
Fuck the GOP
Please don’t. Or at least use a condom.
We don’t need mini-GOP running around.
They are a party obsessed with birth rates, for totally-not-racist reasons.
GOP, the Get…Orrybody Pregnant…Party.
We’ll keep workshopping it.
Just fuck them with a cactus. Without lube. Problem solved.
Poor cactus.
Paige NO!
I don’t think the ICC gives a shit about what the GOP has to say. There have been multiple reported war crimes, something must happen.
ICC doesnt have any real avenue for enforcement though?
They do, but only with participating countries: 124 States of the Rome Statute. You might notice that the usual war crime monger and tinpot dictator countries are not on the list. Countries like Russia, North Korea, China, Israel, the USA are not members of a system that prosecutes war crimes and other crimes against humanity.
i hate the bad guy countries
Yeah, what are they gonna do? Invade the Hague? That’s absurd
Hague Invasion Act
oh…
There aren't enough of them to do so.
Rules for me, rules for thee
This is just how the world works tbh. The ICC has no mechanisms for enforcement. They rely on participating countries, because they don’t have an international mandate to do well, anything, without the approval of the international community. There is no world government, or world police
Yes, but this is basically saying “try to enforce the laws we helped write and we invade”
Yeah sorta. But there’s no way to force the US to participate, there’s zero international law that has enforcement mechanisms. In order to pursue an ICC trial, they rely on the armies/police/prosecutors/judges of other nations, and none of those nations are going to risk fucking up their relationship with the US. In this case, the US is literally not beholden to the laws
That’s kind of the point of being a (near) hegemon
That’s one quick way to destroy America’s position in the global system. But Trump would order it. We all know he would.
Of course Bush did it, who else would do something like this (except for Trump maybe)?
That’s um a bad look even by America in 2002 standards jeez
Ok Europe why the fuck haven’t you prepared for conflict with us‽
Target deez nutz. They both found evidence of genocide and spoken words that imply intent that would make compelling evidence during the trial.
the icc also directed the israeli government to fucking stop the bad shit and they have only intensified
Biden would just veto whatev-
Nah I couldn’t even finish the sentence.
He could. But he won’t.
Oh no, don’t make an enemy of the most incompetent political organization in American history.
“Incompetent”…
Anyone wanna tell this guy what happened to abortion rights?
Name one other thing they accomplished (flipping SC counts as part of what you mentioned)
They keep winning Presidential elections against the popular will, they gerrymandered districts and restricted voting to guarantee themselves electoral wins, and they stuffed the Supreme Court with extremists who will do their bidding for decades. They’re pretty competent at being obstructive and gaming the system for far-right minority rule.
I was more talking about legislation/legal precedent but I do agree with you
They’re totally incompetent at many things, such as governing, but they’re brilliant at brainwashing their followers and causing harm to people at home and around the world. Just like typical fictional supervillains.
Threatening the prosecutors’ families is a typically classy move from the GOP.
They learned it from their daddy Trump.
Republicans standing against justice once again.
Wait a second? So if GOP members say stuff like this, what happens if some unruly ICC people decide to go after GOP and their family? These people sure know how to create a safe world…
Edit for wording
there’s a US law that says the US will destroy the ICC if they try to convict a US citizen, I think. Threats work.
They will do anything and everything to escalate tensions in that part of the world. They believe that if they can hasten Armageddon in the Middle East it will force Jesus to come back sooner. It’s a bullshit lasagna plan (layer upon layer of utter shite). But it’s what these lunatics believe.
This right here. Not enough people realize how bonkers these religious nut jobs really are, or that this is the real reason the US is so invested in Israel.
Seriously, can we push back rules separating state and church? You can’t work for the government if you believe in Santa claus, sorry. Same goes for Allah, god, Jehova, shiva, or any other of the make belief friends.
Why does the GOP go against the wishes of Vladimir Putin when it applies to Israel?
Now that the RuSSian economy is in big trouble, Vlad the war criminal doesn’t have the money to pay them, so they don’t have to comply anymore
first of all, the us isn’t even a member of the icc so you can’t really do squat.
Yeah I think the implication now that they will try and murder them. Thinly veiled threats
The US apparently already put a law in place that if a US soldier is ever tried by the ICC that they would invade the Netherlands and liberate him by force.
TL;DR: Fascists love fascist war criminals
Isnt it a felony to threaten someone or something?
Rules for thee…