I’m not a legal expert, but if what Lawrence Atkin-Teillet said is based on strict technicality, then by all definition it’s “not violating the law”. Whether someone agrees or disagrees with this doesn’t matter, because for anyone who even has an inkling of awareness and knowledge of international laws and legal philosophy, is that there is no enforcement. Even in a different reality where someone says that US confiscating a ship is piracy, if it there is still no enforcement then in its spirit it’s now a law. Most “international laws” are more like guidelines. Both the US invasion of Iraq and Russian invasion of Ukraine are illegal as deemed by the UN. Both weren’t punished in any case.

The reality is that there is no such thing as “law” on the international level, because something is a law if it’s strictly enforceable and violators are punished. But none are punished. We are in a ruderless ship with different big boys trying to wrestle the helm from one another while the rest of us are drowning. We’re all just monkeys in suits pretending to be “civilised” and above animals.

Injustice Gods Among Us if it’s still available!

People are in their own information bubble even before social media became a thing.

Marxist Leninists obsess over theory, but when they are challenged with empirical information, they will revert back to their script “just read theory bro!”

I don’t lament the decline of the American empire. I am yet to see you explicitly denounce the imperialism of YOUR paymasters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_change?wprov=sfla1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_involvement_in_regime_change?wprov=sfla1

not reasons (because we all have many reasons to revolt) but a clear strategy, demands or even much information

Such a typical Marxist Leninist bubble view if you are genuine. PLENTY of protests and revolts throughout history happened spontaneously at grassroots level. And the most common reason is being against government ineptitude and demanding to meet basic material needs of the public. The French Revolution, Singing revolution, the 1848 liberal revolution, Occupy Wall street, and even the Tea Party movement are ad hoc. If you actually read world history then you would not be such an antidemocratic simp.

Tech workers is like the majority of fediverse. You won’t run out of people to ask.

Edit: A friend of mine working in IT mentioned that his ex-boss retired and then became a children’s book writer. If financial constraint isn’t an issue, I would be a polymath and travel to learn more about the world. That was actually the point of education is to be a more well rounded person.

I’m not American, dum dum. Are you a bot repeating talking points like an NPC? Will you ever call out the long history of your pay master’s imperialism and interference in Eastern Europe, Siberia, Caucasus and Central Asia?

Boomers aren’t Gen Z.

The previous Nepali government, before being overthrown, literally stole tax payers money and flaunted their wealth and then tried to violently put down peaceful protestors, until people fought back and stormed the palace.

You are just anti-democratic. You will just call everything a CIA sponsored coup or colour revolutions except for the illiberal ones you personally approve of.

Steam reviews are comedy gold.

“I will call out Western interference but I won’t call out Russia propping up illiberal regimes because I am in Kremlin’s pocket.”

you are the one who seem to be obsessed with making this about “kremlin” instead for some reason. i don’t see any connection at all.

“I am biased to look the other way.”

And not every revolution you don’t like is CIA-coup. Oh right, nuance doesn’t exist with .ml. Of course it is in your interest and your pay masters to muddy the water. Again, even if there was external influence on colour revolutions, where is the indication that there is right wing authoritarian elements on these revolutions like before? Oh wait, for the typical tankies, the only legitimate form of revolutions is if it’s a violent one led by your OWN authoritarian and imperial ideals. As expected, you haven’t even called out the right wing movements funded by Kremlin.

Oh fuck off with that Kremlin propaganda of colour revolutions. Even if Gen Z protests has external influence, what is so bad about promoting democracy and end of government corruption? As bad as Western interference has been in the past, the colour revolutions tend to be influenced by soft power and no right wing elements. Would you call the French Revolution a colour revolution because it was influenced by the American revolution? Or the overthrow of Chinese Imperial dynasty by Sun Yat-sen because it was influenced by European liberalism? But I bet you aren’t saying anything about Russian-influenced far right movements because you’re a useful idiot for Kremlin!

Kremlin is trying to demonize the colour revolutions because it will undermine their own personal power. It was Putin who helped Lukashenko violently put down protests in Belarus and those in Kazakhstan. If democratic change happens in Russia and their satellite states, their own kleptocratic regimes will decline and their own hold to power. That’s why they demonize colour revolutions despite being organic. Autocratic governments and sock puppets like yourself do everything in their power to de-legitimise grassroots movements that undermine the ruling class’ hold to power.

The 1990s was the most peaceful and prosperous time in humanity. This is not universal, if you were in Russia, Rwanda or the Yugoslavia, but overall there was fewer conflict. Humanity as a whole was riding high on the end of cold war, democratisation, and economic growth.

a utopia but the humans still rebelled.

Humans will complain no matter what. There is catharsis.

The payphones are still available in my country in case of emergencies. They were refurbished and less dirty than they were in the past. But funny enough, some payphones were converted as first aid stations. As much as our government can be deliberately inefficient and corrupt, they are good with adapting to changing times to keep some public services relevant. One thing I’m proud of is our postal service, which branched out to mobile network operator and banking to stay relevant.

Original Sin 2 I mean

I am currently playing Divinity 2, and the game’s humour and lore is indeed dark.

Companies and large retail stores have these donation boxes for individuals to donate food into. I thought: why won’t the companies donate themselves? The French have a good idea with legislating restaurants to donate unserved food to the homeless.

Times New Roman is precisely what Trump admin wants. You know, since the far right has a hard on on the Roman empire.

Me: Maybe in a few MORE DECADES people will wake up!

What Westerners don’t realise is that Facebook’s main audience are people from developing countries. FB provides free and unlimited access to everyone even without internet data. But the actual price? You guessed it.