• tomiant@programming.dev
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    7 days ago

    “Sieg heil!”

    “Saying that makes you a nazi.”

    “I don’t give a shit what you call it.”

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    So now killing people that poison americans is OK? So all the CEO’ of major companies that pollute are legitimate targets? Is that what vance is saying?

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      I don’t know about you, but to me it sounds like a valid legal argument that Luigi Mangione’s lawyers could potentially use?

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      Yeah, pretty crazy precedent if you applied it to America. So all oil companies employees are fair game along with chemical employees and the majority of people in the food/alcohol/tobacco industry. Now that I think about, it is justification to eliminate about a third of the US population.

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    The problem they’re faced with is a drug epidemic and the solution they come up with is mass murder.

    Obviously very sane and rational.

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    I’m pretty sure if someone gave Vance a gun, he would start shooting the cleaning staff at the WH. He sounds like a coked out lunatic who hears voices making fun of him.

    This is why I’m not convinced when people say maga won’t fall in line behind this guy. They want blood, they don’t care how it’s spilled. They’re foaming at the mouth rabid for it, and Vance promises to deliver.

  • febra@lemmy.world
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    The US has always been this parasitic, lawless, warmongering shithole of a country. Bush did it, Obama did it, Biden did it, Trump did it. Every single president before them did it. As someone who despises the US hegemony, I’m glad this administration is showing the world what the US has always been. This will just make it easier for us across the globe to discredit the US lackeys in our individual countries.

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    Laughts on them. If the flow of cocaine would stop, politics and the rich would be hit the hardest.

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      You’ve made the mistake of thinking that this is about killing members of a drug cartel instead of killing people they decide to accuse of being members of a drug cartel

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        Whether those people on the boat were members of a cartel or not is not the point, it already is piracy and a war crime.

        My point is that the stated ultimate goal is to fight drug cartels, and that would hit certain circles the hardest. Especially with cocaine, which is a drug predominantly used in richer circles.

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    James Donald Bowman is a sad sack of shit and the literal incarnation of his douchebag father.

    He tries to escape his given name, but I won’t let him, I’ll deadname him until he (or myself) is dead.

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    The orange bloated bloviator is bad enough but to have that dark little strange monster hovering in the background seems somehow worse.

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    You could make a very strong argument that a cartel member is a member of a militant group, they certainly use many of the same tactics

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      You could make a very strong argument that the cartel is something for the country itself to deal with, or rely on help through organisations like INTERPOL and not just have the US decide it’s murder time for a random civillian they have no evidence on.

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              I think you’re missing the point there.

              You can’t just eschew justice because cartels - but we both know they won’t come quietly.

              You do the trial in absentia, then send a team to go ‘pick him up’ if he really does come quietly, he’ll go to prison, but we all know that’s not how it’ll go down.

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            Given the tactics cartels use to defend their turf and keep others in line, they’re one group of people I don’t really have an issue with being executed.

            They’re worse than a lot of terrorist organisations.

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      If you have a proper judicial process, some mistakes are caught. On the other hand, extra judicial killings have no recourse for mistakes.

      Even the best processes and well intentioned humans make mistakes. Extra judicial process is a recipe for humanitarian disaster.

      Unknown number of innocent people will be murdered in cold blood without remorse if such a policy is adopted.

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          Except that they have in the past. Coast guard shows up in a big ass boat with guns, they don’t fight back. If drugs are found, they are confiscated, people are interrogated, leads to the organizational structure are worked on, etc. This was just murder. There is a strong reason for due process.

    • IO 😇@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      i think you mean military instead of militant, any violent group is militant. So being militant is still a civilian thing and using the military against civilians is a war crime. Also using the military within your own borders is a crime. So no it’s not a “very strong argument” it’s not an argument at all

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_humanitarian_law