BadmanMassive
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Communist swag-maker. Everything Louis, everything Gucci.
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Socialists can’t get their hands dirty creating wealth because those hands are too busy picking other people’s pockets.
Yes but more needs to be said. Many people mistakenly believe "the United Nations/international law" and the "rules-based international order" are interchangeable terms. They are not. International law exists and must be upheld, especially by those who abhor war and atrocity. Just because international law is violated by states does not mean it does not exist. The "rules-based international order" is a rhetorical trick used by American and European leaders to claim the moral high ground of international law without any of the obligations, to denounce opponents even as they launch their own wars of aggression and participate in the live-streamed holocausts of entire peoples. The "rules-based international order" has no basis in law. It does not exist except as a propaganda term for promoting the myth of Western exceptionalism. Every time a Western leader or institution uses this phrase, it is a deliberate omission of international law. They omit international law because it applies to everyone, including them. In the "rules-based international order" of their imaginations, the world is expected to dance to their double standard: they make the rules, and everyone else just has to follow orders. It is little wonder this language is rejected at the UN by a majority of the world's countries representing a majority of the world's people, many of whom remember the last time Europeans made all the rules and everyone else had to follow orders. This is a really important distinction to remember. As the world has watched unspeakable atrocities happen without accountability, many are losing faith in international law. Many are concluding it was all just a self-serving lie. That is a mistake. To do this is to unintentionally aid the attack on international law that is so abhorrent in the first place. The world cannot afford for those who oppose war and genocide to fall into listless cynicism. The post-war international system is not perfect, but it is hard won, and it is all we have. The UN Charter is the single most consensual document of international law in history. It was the product of decades of war and nearly 100 million deaths. It was written to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind." Those ignoring and eroding it (including those in Europe parroting the lie that the UN is "no longer fit for purpose") are attempting to bring us back to the violent free-for-all where "the strong do what they want and the weak suffer what they must" - the world that created the need for the Charter in the first place. The war criminals and the genocidaires in Tel Aviv, Brussels, London and Washington would like nothing better than to convince us all that international law does not exist. Do not reward them! It is imperative that those of us who insist on a world free from war and injustice ensure that it is the myth of Western exceptionalism that dies in the bonfire they are building, not international law and the United Nations.
BREAKING: Counter Terrorism Police have confirmed the name of the suspect in the Manchester synagogue attack as 35-year-old Jihad al Shamie. They have also announced that there are now three people in custody in relation to the attack. Read more: trib.al/cdYU4GJ
