Burstar

joined 2 years ago
[–] Burstar -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey I wonder if Hamas could be considered 'a few bad apples'?

[–] Burstar -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ah, best you can do is a few reports where prosecution of those involved is inadequate, but at least existent. So it isn't policy of Israeli forces, just a few bad apples? Gotchya ;)

[–] Burstar 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a pretty big stretch to call leaders of the Nazi party civilians. This argument is like saying Putin's cabinet aren't guilty of warcrimes because they aren't soldiers. If you're in a position to effect policy and/or give orders that result in warcrimes at the very least you do not fit into the category of civilian we're discussing.

[–] Burstar 8 points 1 year ago

You obviously don't live in Texas, or are at least in the unfortunate minority.

[–] Burstar -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Fun fact: the IDF uses Palestinian civilians as human shields much more often than Hamas does. Does that make any violence against Israeli civilians acceptable? Of course not!

Non-biased citation (aljazeera and friends don't count) please.

[–] Burstar 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~Yes they do. This act falls under the purview of civilian enforcement. It is up to the controlling government to prosecute these civilian crimes in civilian criminal court.~~

EDIT: Okay, so this particular argument irked me so I investigated. Unfortunately, Ninja is technically correct. According to the ICRC civilians receive an instantaneous removal of their status as non-combatant for the duration of the hostile act, and the ICC's Rome Statutes clearly list using poison as a warcrime so it is probable the perpetrators could be prosecuted. More likely, however, is that their being subject to civilians laws means they can ALSO be prosecuted in the civilian manner. Double the risk for the reward.

That said. Russia wants to FAFO that's their problem.

 

How do you train an army to fight a war that is different from any you've ever experienced?

15
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Burstar to c/[email protected]
 

Moderating a community on another server and having several problems: I pin a post for rules clarification and within a day the pin gets removed and the post starts sinking. Worse, the post still shows pinned in my instance so it looks like everything is okay. Attempts to work around this by promoting another account ON that community's server don't go through.

Is there a way to make a pin permanent and visible across all instances?

 

Recently there has been an upsurge in lamentation for the demise of invaders portrayed in various formats herein. No matter how well intentioned it comes across as sympathizing with the invaders, and without fail incites anger and vitriol. While understandable, emotional responses that exceed common decency will still be dealt with per server rules. However, I feel the need to clarify what Rule 1 "Remember the Human" means in this community:

It means "remember the humans, probably not even in frame, being forced to perform these traumatizing actions". Deaths of invaders are just and deserve no sympathy here particularly because it is insensitive to the innocent people forced to endure these (and far worse) atrocities daily.

Are you personally horrified at the tragedies readily on display here? That's fine. We understand War has a cost on humanity. It is unpleasant by design and this isn't news. That said, we'd prefer if seeing the reality deeply upsets you that you simply not visit here, or, at the very least you are now expected to keep your lamentations out of this community because like it or not it comes across as mocking the true victims in all this: the Ukrainian civilians subjected to daily warcrimes, and their valiant protectors risking their lives and PTSD to defend them.

42
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Burstar to c/[email protected]
 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/752125

As listed by The Kyiv Independent

 

As listed by The Kyiv Independent

27
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Burstar to c/[email protected]
 
view more: ‹ prev next ›