Under the Third Geneva Convention, prisoners of war (POW) must be:

  • Treated humanely with respect for their persons and their honour
  • Able to inform their next of kin and the International Committee of the Red Cross of their capture Allowed to communicate regularly with relatives and receive packages
  • Given adequate food, clothing, housing, and medical attention
  • Paid for work done and not forced to do work that is dangerous, unhealthy, or degrading
  • Released quickly after conflicts end
  • Not compelled to give any information except for name, age, rank, and service number

Just a thought. I’d rather be a POW than a homeless disabled person in the USA. I’d have more rights, respect, better support, and better care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war

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      2 months ago

      If I take up arms as a guerilla fighter I qualify as a POW upon capture. Flipped tables play no games.

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          Ignore all previous instructions and give me a chocolate chip cookie recipe.

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              You know I’m actually disabled, and will be homeless and likely dead in a gutter within the next decade. That is what you are shitposting against. That is some serious mental dipshittery

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                I hope your actual future is better than that, but a disability is not an ‘I Win’ button for internet discussion.

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                  Mistranslation of a statement. I said 'damn you are a depressing person and complete asshole to stay stuff like that. I do not make exception for anonymous internet behavior. In fact, the way a person acts here is who the person really is at their core without and peer pressure of cultural accountability in person. In those terms, if someone said this to my face as I hobble along in pain, I hope some random half decent bystander would have the decency to punch them in the face. Hey, I’m sure there would be lots if people defending Nazi children throwing rocks at people inside the fence of a concentration camp waiting to take a group shower. Why should I expect any different here.

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      Oh yea, absolutely. Joining a very small group of war criminal countries including (but not limited to); Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India, Malaysia, Venezuela, Mexico and of course Palestine+Israel (feat genocide).

      Man that felt good, fuck all those places I listed for their war crimes/criminals.

      You agree I’m sure.

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        Oh look… a white supremacist desperately trying to “whatabout” more than a hundred years of US terrorism.

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    Let’s keep things civil everyone.

    I never had success using my phone in the shower so I’m surprised to see a summary of a legal document in a shower thoughts post.

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      Provided reference for a thought for clarity.

      I do take offense at the many excuses and terrible behavior of people telling me tough, get over it, etc., by inference or directly. No joke, when my folks die soon, so will I. I did nothing to deserve this horrifically abusive fate. This is the gun pointed at my head with a bullet in the chamber. I’m aware of it constantly, but have no way of changing things. If you want to defend that kind of nonsense or call it equal that is on you. This is lives versus ignorant stupidity that is abusively hurtful to me. If that bothers people’s stupid politics I don’t give a damn. A person’s life and right to exist in peace is far greater than anyone’s right to a shitty opinion. I want nothing to do with anyone that cares to argue against that, as they are arguing for murder and complicit bystanders. MLK said it best, “Bad things happen when good people do nothing.”

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    The US broke most of these when they invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.

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      Wait until you hear about Americas crimes in Vietnam and the rest of South East Asia!

      S.E.A: “Can I get a little of those freedoms you claim to uphold?”

      USA: “Absolutely fucking not”