Dolores [love/loves]

how is zelensky going to get a country that can veto any motion to give up its veto? it’s complete fantasy. i’m addressing the idea russia’s veto is unfair or undeserved, but somehow everyone else’s isn’t.

here’s a compromise, we get rid of all the vetos, and let the general assembly make binding decisions. surely the majority of the world’s population & nations would vote in support of Western Democratic interests

when i was looking for chronological comparisons the French apparently decriminalized sodomy in the Revolution, just like the Soviets, but didn’t ever reinstate it lol. in fact the Code Napoleon as it was promulgated to other states also decriminalized sodomy in other parts of europe, notably italy, western germany, and bavaria. germany re-banned it when unified (prussians)

this is not true. Cuba’s been ahead of the US consistently. LGBT rights are not a finish line labelled ‘gay marriage’; they decriminalized decades before the US.

and their recent reforms are constitutional, not protections subject to whims of courts or simple parliamentary majorities. Cuba didn’t roll over one day in the 2010s and suddenly decide ‘we’re pro lgbt now’, these efforts are built on decades of acceptance & reforms, that only recently became entrenched & certified to the highest legal standard.

no socialist society has had a good record regarding LGBT+ rights

Cuba does

no water—no piss.

why can’t you woke tankies understand this is what it takes to disrupt and innovate the marketplace? why do you hate progress?

meet up with my friends and say “wtf is the deal with this new policy”

i’d wear blue jeans and say fuck these assholes, and get to go home for a day off

looks like they got back a bit east of Kharkiv & to the north bank of the Dneipr—long before this last big ‘offensive’ tho. Russia might’ve given that pittance of territory up in a peace deal ooth.

Witwit and i’m sure many others is just tragic, Russia has awful drug laws & i’m sure being Iraqi contributed to his arrest/persecution, then the only chance to get out was to get murdered in Ukraine.

depleted uranium is a radioactive carcinogen, and linked to substantial increases in birth defects and cancer in Iraq

more concerned about DU slicing through the dna of ukrainian children for years after the war like in Iraq

Putin wanted to join without waiting in queue with “insignificant countries”

this is the dumbest excuse ever trotted out in explanation for why Russia wasn’t allowed to join. because the largest military and nuclear arsenal in europe should for some reason wait in a “line” in joining an allegedly defensive alliance, when they’d be the greatest possible contribution to common defense? why on earth would there be a “line” to enter an alliance in the first place? surely they had more than a single clerk doing nations’ paperwork to join?

wdym my lackey i snatched off the street a month ago & paid a US mercenary 40k to train hasn’t been transformed into the Ubermench by the magic powers of NATO doctrine???

ewwwwwww cars

its only a 3% increase over last year and also increases the share of it being electric. its better than it could be i suppose

im just wondering what the fuck Texas, a state, is doing with its personnel regulating an international border. US states have no rights to regulate borders with other US states, much less the international one

europeans insisting they’re independent countries but they need Uncle Sam’s permission to send their own military hardware anywhere 🤔

obviously with the support and assent of the US, but it is a funny counterfactual if the US posturing had actually been to politically pressure the end of Nordstream & it actually fucked up the plan when rogue ukrainians blew it up

you could also say the folding of the ukrainian foreign legion into the territorial defense forces formally makes them not mercenaries with an equal legal footing. either we stringently follow the geneva conventions and there are no mercenaries on either side, or we call a spade a spade

the guy who killed him is also a mercenary. and poles live in ukraine, there are lawful combatants from the polish citizens of ukraine.

e: the article says “volunteer” but that still seems like something that would need a trial to determine whether they lacked protections before a summary execution. that should apply to any participants from neighboring countries’ ethnicities

I also was very clear that I don’t believe in criminalizing the people on-camera in porn so I’m not sure why you’re saying the things you are

you just believe in continuing criminalization of any way for that performance to make them money? that’s why people do it, when only the johns are ‘illegal’ sexwork still has to be clandestine and outside public scrutiny & protections

I would suspect they want less oversight of human trafficking

what oversight do they have now and how is it improved by dragging people to court for visiting pornhub? seriously we’re talking about the trafficking capital of the world (maybe in competition with libya) and you’re worried that being less litigious toward the most widely accepted & least dangerous form of sexwork is going to hamstring the very effective ukrainian police’s efforts against trafficking, if such a thing even exists at all