It would not have been a problem if you had ranked choice voting.

https://fairvote.org/

If Musk sets up his own party that would split the conservative vote so the Republicans would finally be open to ranked choice. Would probably require ⅔ majority in Congress.

But Dems might be too hungry for temporary power to support such a much needed fix.

Your comment contradicts the Wikipedia entry…

The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. ch. 33) is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president’s power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. The resolution was adopted in the form of a United States congressional joint resolution. It provides that the president can send the U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad only by declaration of war by Congress, “statutory authorization”, or in case of “a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces”.

Isn’t that the core ideology of Conservatism? The current lot are radicals though.

Maximized efficiency at the expense of security. Can happen to anyone.

Gaza and Ukraine are completely different conflicts.

Am just passing on what Ireland is doing.

Ireland will not be asserting if genocide is being committed, but asserting its interpretation of the Genocide Convention.

This is the same approach taken by Ireland in the Ukraine v Russia case.

Seems you missed my point:

Again: how does China stop every single Uyghur adult from taking pics with their smartphone?

Not “every single Uygur”, just the ones locked up. That is how detention works, even in the West.

So there was the BBC and the PBS report another person provided in the comments.

By the way, I agree there was no genocide. See my other comments where I acknowledge the Uighur separatist movement threatening access to the Silk Road so obviously the CCP has to try something.

The current definition of Genocide is set out in Article II of the Genocide Convention:

Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
© Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated
to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

To constitute genocide, it also needs to be established that the victims are deliberately targeted — not randomly — because of their real or perceived membership of one of the four groups protected under the Convention. This means that the target of destruction must be the group, as such, or even a part of it, but not its members as individuals.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/Genocide Convention-FactSheet-ENG.pdf

Whether or not Israel has a right to exist, it is a childish fantasy to imagine it will vanish.

Black South African leadership did not express a desire to kill all whites. Hamas have expressed a desire to kill all Jews in the Levant so the analogy does not hold.

Most surviving German Jews went to the Levant (bear in mind that ⅔ were killed by Nazis).

White South Africans didn’t experience genocide.

Infantile indeed. The popularity of Marvel/DC movies is symptomatic.

It is the age of hyperbole and polarization. As if something is not a tragedy worthy of attention unless you can paint it as the worst thing ever.

And the solutions imagined are total fantasy. Jews aint leaving the Levant, neither are the Arabs.

I watched a BBC documentary which blew my mind recently, leaving no party looking clean in the Middle East conflict. Neither ProPal nor Zionist philosophy comes into it. The reality is too messy for the partisan minds: HyperNormalization: A Different Experience of Reality.

Being in my 60’s it has been years since I saw something so challenging. Since this is an anarchist community this should appeal although it is not hopeful. More like an examination of organised Chaos.

Putin kills Ukrainian civilians, not because of their religion or genetics or culture but to terrorise them into submission so that they encourage their military to give up so that he gets to plunder their land and resources.

This is very different to the universally accepted definition of genocide as applies to The Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia.

Ireland is trying to get the ICJ to broaden the UN definition of genocide to include both the Ukraine and Gaza tragedies.

Thanks, I hadn’t seen that. What strikes me as odd is that neither side mentions a huge factor in the conflict: China’s investment in the “belt & road” initiative which relies on the old “Silk Road” route which passes through Xinjiang.

The Uighurs did have an independence separatist movement (China isn’t paranoid) and it would disrupt these plans. China aint letting go of its tight grip any time soon.

Any source from anywhere could be propaganda. Here is your chance to debunk the BBC report if you want.

You are confusing banning news production by foreigners with banning transmission of foreign news.

BBC probably did make it difficult for Russian state news to access UK social media users after Russia invaded Ukraine for their “three day special operation” (obviously a lie from the start). They probably did not forbid access to the Russian journalists wanting to film in the UK.

China probably forbids BBC news with their great internet firewall. I know they ban the Tiananmen Square massacre imagery.

I don’t think UK forbids Chinese from filming in UK. China did not forbid BBC from filming in China either but they did try to forbid filming the detention centre.

Again: how does China stop every single Uyghur adult from taking pics with their smartphone?

Not “every single Uygur”, just the ones locked up. That is how detention works, even in the West.

No, not according to the current definition. That is why Ireland is trying to change it. Words change all the time so it is possible.

That would equate Gaza and Ukraine with the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, the nature and magnitude of which were very different. Perhaps they could create a new word for those?

Yes a higher civilian death ratio in Gaza but the Ukraine military are not in civilian areas.

Admittedly Russia actually targets civilians but it is with long range missiles and drones, most of which get intercepted.

That article says Ireland is also trying to expand the definition of genocide to include Ukrainian deaths. I don’t know why it does not fit the definition currently; perhaps because Russia are not trying to wipe out the Ukrainian population? I dunno. Get back to us if you find out.

Am just pointing out the legal definition of the word regardless of whether courts are just

Not a shred of photographic evidence

That is misleading. Why did authorities try to stop BBC from filming?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=t28nnviKar4

Where should the Israel Jews go now though?

Iranian citizens are not being targeted whereas Iran (and previously Hezbollah) bombed at least one Israeli town where there are no military.