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[–] [email protected] 223 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Do something about it, then.

[–] [email protected] 150 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Oh man this letter is going to be worded so sternly!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

"This letter is so VIBRANT with EXTREME ANGER that it will explode... but only metaphorically."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~Respectfully~~ submitted,

United Nations

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (12 children)

What is the UN human rights chief supposed to do about it?

He did all that was in his power:

Volker Türk told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council there must be an independent and transparent investigation of the two attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday where these devices exploded, reportedly killing 37 people and injuring more than 3,400 others.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are...

They've had arrest warrants out for a while, but they do t have their own police force to enforce it

It relies on member states arresting them when they enter their country. It why Bibi hasn't been going anywhere besides America. Biden is one of the few leaders willing to side with Israel over the UN

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (103 children)

Honestly, the real question to me is how many innocent people were maimed, injured, or killed in this attack. This is incredibly indiscriminate, even though the idea is that only the bad guys are holding the pages or walkie-talkies, but if they're in a cafe they're not the only ones getting hurt. Think of it as attaching an explosive to a thousand Hezbollah people, and then exploding them as they wander through a city. That's the true crime, the potentially disproportionate massacre of innocent civilians.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Agree, I am incredibly disturbed by the nature of this attack and the implications for how other countries might use this idea.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (19 children)

In one sense this is much worse, and more terrifying than the run-of-the-mill IED's used by militant groups. Having to be suspicious of everything around you would be maddening. It's indiscriminate mass psychological warfare, where the collateral damage goes way beyond the people actually carrying the devices.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

OK, I’m gonna tell a little story that we used to tell in my part of the country. In my part of the country they grow a lot of watermelons.

So there was this watermelon farmer who got upset that everybody kept sneaking into his fields at night and taking watermelons.

So he came up with his great idea that he put a sign at the edge of the field that said one of these watermelons is poison. Now he knew that no one could take a watermelon cause they wouldn’t know which one was poisoned. He was quite proud of this idea.

So we came back in the morning to see how his sign worked. And sure enough no watermelons have been taken overnight.

However, he noticed the number one on his sign had been crossed out and somebody had put two.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

However, he noticed the number one on his sign had been crossed out and somebody had put two.

That is both genius and a total Bond villain origin story.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

Israel:

seen ✓✓

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

puts a minigun on my dryer

come and take it, I dare you

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

My ied is gonna make me billions. Improvised explosive dildo

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

All you have to do to realize that this is a terrorist attack is to close your eyes and imagine the media response if Hezbolah did this to the IDF.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

We're talking double secret probation. Super cereal shit man.

Constantly wringing my hands at the lack of adults in leadership. Accountability ends atrocity.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Attacking a civilian population of a country you're not at war with is a violation of international law.

And Isreal has done it at least nine times in the last year.

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