• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      Let’s start with the Taft-Hartley Act, then move on to private property privileges, and then pause to assess.

    • araneae@beehaw.org
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      You cant stop a national government from making weapons and conducting war. A national government, however, should regulate corporations in its territory or sphere of influence to prevent attrocities and tragedies the corporations would conduct. You do not yet live in an idealic valley of plenty where there are corporations but not a government, so you must lend your voice; do you want one Tyranny Machine to run or should there be two Tyranny Machines and the second one has no oversight or regulation from the appropriate parties. Remember that when the government turns on its Tyranny Machine at least competing governments can oppose it. If you are not careful the Free Market Beast will allow many Tyranny Machines to run simultaneously.

      • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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        Environmental destruction because of greed: inexcusable.

        Environmental destruction because you don’t like those bastards over there: totally acceptable.

        • frezik@midwest.social
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          Since leftists tend to also condemn those things, as well, what the hell are you on about?

        • Rooskie91@discuss.online
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          Nobody said that. You can’t just make shit up and act like it’s what the person you’re arguing with is thinking.

          Also people talk about this shit like we bombed today’s Japan. Japan was a horrendous empire. They were doing the same shit the Nazis were doing but in asia. Do you condem the Dresden Fire bombing this fervently? Or do you just defend the stuff that’s buzz worthy?

          Not nuking Japan would have allowed the USSR to invade Japan before they surrendered. Meaning another East/West Berlin/German situation. Can you honestly say that would have had a lower death toll?

          Stop hopping on this contextless internet hills for dying on and learn your history.

          • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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            Like I said…

            And yes, I do condemn the Dresden Fire Bombing. Sure the Nazis were bad but wiping out thousands of innocent civilian lives like that was a war crime, nothing else.

              • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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                A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime

                It’s literally the first part of the definition.