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   Kierkegaanks regretfully (kierkegaanks@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Oct-2025 08:30:44 JST Kierkegaanks regretfully

   Technically, doesn’t that greenlight a sic semper tyrannis move?

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     Parade du Grotesque 💀 (paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Oct-2025 08:30:39 JST Parade du Grotesque 💀

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     • Milcom Miasma
     • sleet01

     @sleet01

     Right now? I agree.

     But Gandhi said it best: evil never triumphs in the end.

     Right now, the US fascism is ascendant, perhaps even triumphant. After the civil war, or at least the purge of the MAGA, I think a new US government may well seek re-engagement with the international community by delivering war criminals to the ICC for judgment.

     Sounds far fetched? Today, yes, but a lot can happen, and perhaps even faster than we think.

     @Kierkegaanks @mmiasma

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     Parade du Grotesque 💀 (paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Oct-2025 08:30:40 JST Parade du Grotesque 💀

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     • Milcom Miasma

     @Kierkegaanks @mmiasma

     Except this is how you commit war crimes and end up in the ICC...

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     sleet01 (sleet01@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Oct-2025 08:30:40 JST sleet01

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     • Parade du Grotesque 💀
     • Milcom Miasma

     @ParadeGrotesque @Kierkegaanks @mmiasma What is the ICC to these people? It's a joke.

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Parade du Grotesque 💀 (paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Oct-2025 08:30:42 JST Parade du Grotesque 💀

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     • Milcom Miasma

     @mmiasma @Kierkegaanks

     Not to mention "rules of engagement" are there for a simple reason: reciprocity.

     Don't respect minimal conduct? Things like warning shots? Don't expect your enemies to respect them either.

     This is how you end up bombing fishing boats with no warning just because someone suspects they may be drug smugglers.

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     Kierkegaanks regretfully (kierkegaanks@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Oct-2025 08:30:42 JST Kierkegaanks regretfully

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     • Parade du Grotesque 💀
     • Milcom Miasma

     @ParadeGrotesque @mmiasma that’s ok, it’s not whisky pete’s ass on the line

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     Milcom Miasma (mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Oct-2025 08:30:43 JST Milcom Miasma

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     @Kierkegaanks

     I think it's actually more dangerous than that. Ignoring "stupid rules of engagement" can lead to all kinds of deadly behaviors within a military force. For example, destroying civilians homes or foodstuffs as a punitive action. Killing people who aren't shooting at you but don't like you. Things like that. It always comes back to bite you.

     'Thus always to tyrants' is more a rationalization for personal outrage and conduct.

     Steve's Place repeated this.