[–] -1 points 2 years ago

The objective of the IDF is to free the hostages. They will make an effort to minimize civilian casualties.

When a legitimate target is hiding among civilians, there are two possible responses:

  • Civilized nations: "F%ck, guess we'll have to wait until they move"
  • Non-civilized nations: "Collateral damage"

But they must achieve that objective even while know civilian causalities are a certainty

No "buts". Like it or not, defend it or not, that's what non-civilized nations do.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    This seems to bring LW closer to Reddit. /s


    But seriously, what is the point of all of this? It only seems to overcomplicate things. Now a user will have to:

    • Follow the ToS
    • Follow the CoC
    • Follow whatever rules a community's sidebar states
    • Match whichever mod's interpretation of all the above

    In that order, or any other order? I see nothing about protesting the breach of the ToS by either the CoC or some community, or some community's mod... so which supersedes which?

    How is this going to be communicated to users commenting/posting from other instances? Or is this only applicable to users registered on this instance? In which case, what is going to be applicable to federated users?


    What are the user's rights?

    • Users Responsibilities: 4.x
    • Our Rights: 6.x
    • Users Rights: none?

    If you want to establish this as a legal document, then you're missing at least a section.


    If this is about giving as many reasons as possible to remove/ban content/users, it's all unnecessary, just say "mods can remove/ban whatever"; it's a private instance, you can do that.

    If this is about having a ruleset that protects the users from arbitrary mod decisions... I see none of that in there.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago*

    Crimea is Ukraine

    Crimea is Stalin's "present" to the Republic of Ukraine after the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Crimean Tatars by the USSR.

    Do you support that genocide?

    that's not how sanctions work at all

    These sanctions work exactly like that: no service, means no service, not "no service, but sometimes some".

    If you want an exception, you ask the US Government, not some rando running the service.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    The use of Starlink was restricted by US Government sanctions: no use on Russian territory or assets.

    Tough luck, that also means no using it for attacking on Russian territory or assets.

    Edit: Here's a link with sources and dates.

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