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   Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 01:27:08 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

   2024 saw two significant steps towards the repudiation of the death penalty and other state-endorsed executions.

   "US declares its military actions worldwide killed no civilians in 2022"
   https://airwars.org/research/analysis-us-declares-its-military-actions-worldwide-killed-no-civilians-in-2022/

   "President Biden announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row"
   https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/23/fact-sheet-president-biden-commutes-the-sentences-of-37-individuals-on-death-row/

   As Chomsky famously said, «If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged». Biden and Obama are no exception.

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 02:59:36 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     • karen coyle

     @kcoyle It is! And it also stopped being true few weeks later (if we are to interpret those words in any way that makes remotely sense). It's shocking that we have to consider such a statement as progress, yet it is. In 2029 hopefully we'll see another such report, and it will not say the same thing, and we'll be lucky if in 2032 we'll be able to hear something like that about 2030.

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     karen coyle (kcoyle@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 02:59:37 JST karen coyle

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     @nemobis "We didn't kill any innocent people in 2022" is an amazing thing to brag about, since it's being touted as admirable when it should be the default. If I announced "I didn't run over any dogs in 2022" you would surely wonder about all of the other years.