Yes, it is

I mean yeah Zionist is generally used as a stand in for Jew

Why is it hard to believe that the people who started this war don’t actually want it to end

Odd kind of ethnic cleansing, given that Israeli Arabs aren’t getting deported

Oh, I don’t think Israel smells like roses. But when compared to Hamas, they do.

I don’t see how. Ukraine isn’t comparable to Palestine. In fact, the local authority whose attitude is most similar to the Russian government is Hamas.

I don’t really care what the government of Qatar, and by that, I mean Al-Jazeera, thinks is hypocrisy.

Launching rockets at civilians isn’t glorious whether you’re Russian or Palestinian.

I hate Russia. It’s always been crappy and always been a stain on Europe, and a brutal empire. It was that way under the Tsars, it was that way under the Bolshevists, and it is that way now as a fascist hellhole

And yet, it isn’t sovereign

Okay, I suppose, but it’s also a sovereign nation, whole the UN is not

The UN is a political organization and says whatever countries vote it to say. It’s also not a legislative organization, it’s basically a big political club of people who like to write strongly worded letters about things. Only the UNSC has teeth, and that hasn’t declared it illegal for obvious reasons.

That’s all legal actions the US can take.

You and I agree that they’re unwise and unjustified. But they’re legal.

Yeah. No. Like, I’m not a fan of the embargo, I don’t see any purpose to it.

That being said, it is patently idiotic to say that it’s illegal for the US to not want to trade with Cuba. Brazil can trade with whoever they want and embargo whoever they want. Same with the US. It’s called national sovereignty. If the US was interdicting shipping going to Cuba, or blocking air traffic, or whatever, then he might have a point, but that’s not happening.

US trade policy with Cuba might be unproductive and ill advised, but it is dishonest to say that it is an illegal policy. It’s never illegal to not trade with a certain country. Cuba doesn’t have a right under international law to sell their exports to American consumers.

Is that why world poverty rates are quickly declining

Idk man modern life is better than life in any past civilization

Capitalism with a social safety net may have flaws but it’s better than anything else ever tries

Ok

Why should I care

From what I understand there was a lot of election fixing and fraud to secure his victories, so Gabon wasn’t really a democracy anyways. If that’s right, I guess we should all hope that their military transitions to a responsible civilian government soon.

That’s what I thought.

There’s not a single fucking Muslim country where I wouldn’t face dramatic persecution as an apostate or my gay friends for loving who they do.

Lebanon isn’t a Muslim nation. It has a significant Muslim plurality. And homosexuality is de facto illegal there AND extremely socially unacceptable, with 85% of Lebanese people saying it should be “rejected by society.”

Give me a Muslim nation where homosexuality and apostasy are both legal and socially acceptable.