Apparently free speech is when you can't criticize Israel but can advocate for war crimes.
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Free Speech is when you have money and the more money you have the more free your speech is.
Crazy to even talk about "Making War Crimes Legal", as though this is anything more than a bureaucratic speed bump for the Thielist Techno-Theocracy.
Not saying someone should assassinate this guy. But man would it be convenient for someone to off this guy.
Also he has meth teeth. Bro is a drugo.
I will keep saying this till I die, aspiring to be a billionaire is a very strong sign of multiple mental diseases involving addiction and sociopathy.
I would argue that "aspiring to be a billionaire" is more of a fantasy than a fixation in the population at large. People don't really get to choose whether they become billionaires, as they have very little control over the mass appeal of their business ventures.
I would counter that becoming a billionaire is what results in multiple mental illnesses, as the rapid elevation of social status, the alienation from your non-billionaire peers, and the functional immunity from legal censure drives you insane.
Like, JK Rowling didn't set out to become a billionaire when she wrote Harry Potter. But once her net worth crested into the nine-figures, her mouth-brain barrier disintegrated along with any sense of humility or decency.
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Those monkeys would kill the shit out of the hoarder long before scientists got a hold of it.
Scientists would study that monkey
Well, jokes on the scientists. We've killed most of the primate population and now we're moving on aggressively to the homo sapiens sapiens. So no more monkeys. No more bananas. And the scientists are on notice.
Ill bet my nuts that this guy is on drugs.
[Karp]>“Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more constitutional you want to make it, the more precise you want to make it, the more you’re going to need my product."
Blowing up unarmed fishing boats is not a "constitutional question" it's a straight-up criminal act. War crimes are well-defined, so there's no wiggle-room about what one IS.
The problem with constitutional immunity is that it protects indiscriminately. And presidents are using it to commit acts of barbarism rather than as necessary acts to protect national security.
War crimes are well-defined, so there’s no wiggle-room about what one IS.
It's not a war crime actually. A nation state cannot declare wars on individuals under which the war crime would come about. Article 7 of the Rome statute (The UN thing that defines war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, etc.) defines blowing up civilians as a crime against humanity.
Too many Lex Luthors walking around these days.
When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be rich so I couid be Batman. How did we end up in this world full of jokers?
Therein lies the problem. When I was a kid all I wanted to be was spider-man so I could help people.
Notice the difference?
Batman/Iron Man/ et. al are ok as heroes but really their super power realistically should be the number of people they could lift out of poverty with that money. The fact that they haven't speaks volumes.
I don't blame the writers per se. They exist in a world same as ours so God forbid a billionaire give away all their money because no one needs all that money.
I also wanted to help people, and be spiderman. My point was when I thought of having a lot of money I thought of the good I could do with it, which is clearly not how the rich think.
In the defense of Batman he does actually try to lift people out of poverty in lots of versions. Wayne industries is basically the only thing keeping Gotham vaguely functional because that city is quite literally cursed while also being in New Jersey.
Like it varies by version but at least with the animated version Batman is dumping cash into charities, job programs, urban revitalization program, infrastructure expansion and repair, and probably some things I'm forgetting. Point is Batman knows that the difference between crime and prosperity is poverty, which he has done his best to eliminate, now he's stuck with the personally and ideologically motivated as well as the weirdos. Hell some versions of Batman have cured Mr. Freeze and Nora once he found out what was going on with that.
I feel like the Joker would have kicked these guy's asses.
It’s true. The joker is just in it for the love of the game. In reality he also hates fascists.
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Eh, Lex Luthor although a fictional character seems way too competent to be compared to these mustache twirling villains.
damn I dream of letting this guy loose in the forest at night, butt naked, so I can hunt him with my dogs. They love the scent of fear
him, spez and donnie
I hear bloodhounds are great animals for such an endeavor.
Bear country.
Palantir is the enemy of humanity.
He created a company named after the evil wizards spy glass, he is not subtle about his villainy
If we just make murder legal, I'll be able to murder anyone I want! Wouldn't that be great? Give that to me, I have to have it, I demand it.
MAGA: Okay.
Do we need a purge? One day per year for doing something about the CEO problem?
He is correct, but the conclusion to draw from that is that the system that allows those businesses to exist needs to be remedied.
I'm thinking of another thing that can move a lot the businesses: hunting CEOs.
I'm GLAD we're giving HIM Taxpayer Money INSTEAD of Teachers or Hospitals or Children!
-LITERALLY EVERY Republican Voter!
This dude has got to be trolling otherwise he needs to be put in a mental institution.
Carp, Thiel, Musk, Vance and a bunch of these douchebag technofascists subscribe to this really nonsensical philosophy called “dark enlightenment “ it’s basically just the feudal system with mass surveillance and AI to enforce it. They openly advocate for the dismantling of democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
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Part of it is to get into the media.
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uhh... isn't it the ICC/ICJ who determines what is a war crime and what is not? How would making them legal in the US affect the ICC/ICJ in ANY way?
We’re not subject to the ICC/ICJ.
Never signed that treaty.
In the US what makes a war crime criminal is the UCMJ and various other us law codes. We get rid of things like “no double tapping” and “you can declare no quarter be given” and suddenly it’s legal.
(There is a very pointed distinction between legal and moral. Explaining that to these fucks is useless.)
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