Even Shapiro sees the writing on the wall. Any Democratic nominee for national office going forward is going to have to address tough questions re: their support for Palestinian rights.
I just had to correct a citation to “Benjamin Ruha”.
Straight from the horse's mouth: the destruction is the point. Force them to spend all their energy and resources on rebuilding critical infrastructure, and they won't have any capability to build anything else.
It's the Gaza strategy all over again.
It's cool though - soon we'll just be using AI to read the articles for us and the circle of life will be complete.
That, and a gigantic "rally 'round the flag" effect from ongoing American threats to Canadian sovereignty. It also helps that the main opposition party was torpedoed as a result of their perceived alignment with Trump's utterly toxic brand.
That'd be the fastest drone strike Trump ever ordered.
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This is wrong though: the destruction is both the strategy and the objective. It's the same thing we saw in Gaza for years. Destroy the country entirely, under the theory that a people focusing on day-to-day survival have no capacity to present an external threat.
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Less than a year since age verification came into force and Ofcom is completely out of control: www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...
"But look at all the Israeli opposition! They're marching in the streets!"
Yeah - plenty of Israelis dislike the corruption and authoritarianism. But even they are, on the whole, super supportive of brutalizing Palestinians, Iranians, Syrians, and everyone else in the region perceived as a threat.
People keep trying to reduce the problem to Netanyahu, which conveniently ignores the fact that he’s democratically elected, and the worst aspects of his regime are overwhelmingly popular among the Israeli public.
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There was a good article in the Columbia Law Review a few years ago about the unique nature on the Palestinian situation, which should give rise to its own understanding of harm in international human rights law (in the same way apartheid did): columbialawreview.org/content/towa...
Gavin Newsom is a consummate opportunist who's been tacking to the right on most issues, so if he sees political advantage in throwing around words like "apartheid" it's a sign of a much broader public shift.
The dam might finally be breaking here.
I keep seeing this issue framed as "income inequality" when very clearly the problem is rich people are way too rich, and too powerful as a result. Almost all of society's problems ultimately stem from concentrations of wealth.
Same with the slavers and their apologists before the U.S. civil war. Emancipation was presented as an existential security threat, that would bring on a Haitian-style purge of white society.
The idea that once people have perfect security they'll do the right thing is always a convenient canard.
For years, governments deflected criticisms of their expanding surveillance power by pointing to abuses in the private sector, while companies deflected by pointing the finger at governments.
Stories like this show the problem with this back and forth: it's all the same surveillance system.
This "diplomatic tightrope" language strains credulity. Are we really meant to believe Canada's situation vis-a-vis the U.S. is more precarious than, say, Barbados or Guyana?
Call a spade a spade: Carney supports these strikes because his view of the region aligns with Trump's.
I also don't understand this logic, since without any pretence of working towards Palestinian statehood, it's just naked apartheid. And they can argue it's justified apartheid, which is I guess where they're at. But I don't see how you win an argument where you're justifying apartheid.
If your interest in international law begins and ends when people on your side are negatively impacted, then we're no longer talking about international law (or any form of law, really).
I mean, does the Iranian response violate LOAC? Maybe? Probably? We've heard some pretty twisted interpretations of what constitutes a legitimate target over the past couple of years.
But you don't get to cite int'l law after saying nothing about the flagrant illegal aggression that kicked this off
Curious as to what these governments feel a proportionate response to the murder of their head of state would be.
Picture of Raymun Fossoway from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms about to be knighted.
Just randomly realized that the reason Dunk is so reluctant to knight Raymun Fossoway is because Ser Arlen never really knighted him, so Raymun would
never be a real knight (and neither would anyone Raymun ever knighted… or anyone they knighted in turn….).
The American/Israeli enthusiasm for AI targeting really does make a lot more sense when you realize they don’t actually care about accuracy of what they’re blowing up, so long as the system gives them a steady list of targets and a veneer of justifiability.
That’s also why I found the stories about tourism spots in Michigan and Maine going out of business because Canadians suddenly stopped showing up so interesting, because it’s a rare case of immediate and direct impacts from the reckless foreign policy moves: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
And with the replacement of the Teevee Brain Public with Social Media Brain Public, incentives and values get even more warped. Because trolling and explosions and dead bad guys make for great content, and the news cycle has shrunk down to the blink of an eye, long term thinking is pretty much dead.
Good thread. The key point to me is the disconnect between long-term impacts and the electorate’s attention span. In a working system, you’d have trusted institutions and experts with a platform to break down why, actually, it’s bad if Denmark & Canada utterly loathe the U.S. Instead we have… this.
Can’t wait to hear whether the kids were all being used as human shields or if the casualties must be fabricated because the death toll comes from Iranian sources.
Two cities in Israel, bomb shelter comparison
By the way when you see reports about how Israelis are going to bomb shelters, you should keep in mind that the vast majority of Palestinian *citizens* of Israel (in the 1948 territories, not the oPT) do not have a single bomb shelter nearby due to the apartheid system Israel has implemented.
This, at least, is an area where some accountability should be possible. None of these people should even practice medicine again.
