• mlg@lemmy.world
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    I think the Geneva conventions were also something rather new because biological warfare, civilian hostages including women and children, massacres, and destruction of vital resources like food and water were pretty standard for thousands of years of war and combat.

    Of course as history has shown, no one actually bothers to follow the Geneva conventions when they face zero consequences but will totally complain if anyone else doesn’t (cough Israel cough).

    Biological weapons, for the time being, are mutually banned because disease is hard to control in a warzone where anything has the chance to mutate or evolve. Gas attacks are used exclusively against civilians because every army has gas masks. Although iirc Iraq used it to create a massive untraversable barrier against Iran. Otherwise everything is apparently still the same.

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    8 hours ago

    A rich jackass with no actual government position took the podium at the presidential inauguration, did the nazi salute, and wasn’t promptly shot or arrested. That says a lot about the state of this country.

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    9 hours ago

    I’m like 99% sure that “Violence is never the answer” is just yet ever more rich fuck propaganda.

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      It’s also very Liberal propaganda.

      Martin Luther King Jr. protested and he won so peaceful protest works!

      While of course barely mentioning the Black Panthers and how MLK was suddenly a reasonable alternative to their violent resistance.

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        The only reason MLK didn’t do more was because what they were already doing was illegal, and anything more could get them jail time. And this is still what they thought of him and his “peaceful” protests:

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        And his “peace” was met with an extreme act of violence. Certainly was an answer for someone(s).

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        8 hours ago

        Exactly this. The “carrot and stick” strategy doesn’t work without the stick. Every time a nonviolent movement achieves something, it’s because they were seen as the preferable alternative to a more militant contemporary.

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      9 hours ago

      I thought it was just something we taught children