China Calls for Complete Lifting of US Empire’s Illegal Sanctions Against Venezuela : worldnews

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How are these illegal sanctions?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

By violating international law:

https://www.isjq.ir/article_145298.html?lang=en

According to Articles 1 (2), 2 (1) and 74 of the UN Charter, the imposition of unilateral sanctions violates the principles of the Charter, the principle of equality of states, the development of friendly relations and good neighborliness, and consideration of each other's interests and well-being.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Read those articles and explain how the US is violating them? Also, your article is in an unknown journal from a place without free speech.

Edit: Love the downvotes from people not bothering to check the primary sources."US is bad so they must be violating international law with sanctions"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Daily reminder that when liberals say "freedom" they mean "of markets"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"free speech" like prosecuting people for supporting Palestine, right?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Are you insinuating that the United States has criminally prosecuted individuals purely for their support for Palestine? Any examples?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How long has China been adopting the UN charter?

This is news to me. I guess we can all forget about the nine-dash line from today.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The UN Charter is the foundational document that the UN is built on. UNCLOS is a convention (one that, for what it's worth, the US never ratified). The PCA is a non-UN body that's sometimes used as an arbitration mechanism between two parties to avoid conflict.

Do you have any grasp on international law, or do you just enjoy whataboutism?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Look at OP’s post history. It’s pretty clear they’re a tankie.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yep, fascist. That's a nazi meme.

[+] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[+] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, they've been here from well before the Reddit migration. It was just that the activity from Reddit migrants had died down and now you're seeing more of what Lemmy was beforehand.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ah. It’s a bummer.

I’m ok with criticism of the US, but this just seems like a targeted stream of anti western crap.

It’s sad that the internet is getting trashed by state actors for their own gain, and unfortunate for those who take it all at face value.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's a more likely target for state actors:

A small federated social media platform with a limited audience and that, by design, decentralizes control

OR

Reddit, which literally has Atlantic Council members deciding content moderation policy

It's not anyone else's fault that the US has been taking L after L recently internationally.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

Reddit is manipulated for sure. I didn’t say it wasn’t.

I said that Lemmy shows all the signs of bullshit propaganda. I think the US has its pros and cons, but I can tell RT like content when I see it.

A small social media platform is easy to manipulate as well. The goal for Russia is to divide the West and anger people. When only 15 upvotes will get something to Top for the day, that’s pretty ripe for abuse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You think state actors are targeting lemmy? That seems like an incredibly bad investment. Do you think the troll farms boss would be happy with me posting on here instead of facebook or twitter?

It's actually far more likely that your opinion (including this hot take right here) has been formed by many an organization or rich dude throwing money at promoting their views in both traditional media and social media. Of course this place here seems out of place to you, you're the one that has taken the propaganda at face value.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

Actually, there is high value in posting where their upvotes matter a lot. That’s why Russia hijacked r/conspiracy - because they didn’t have the numbers to overwhelm some of the bigger subreddits.

A new medium like Lemmy is easy to hijack. And clearly it’s happening. I read a very broad cross section of news, and a lot of the stuff that’s getting upvoted here is simply lame anti—west propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes this is what the world looks like when you don't have nazis and the state department censoring stuff they don't like. You'll get used to it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Uh huh. Riiight.

I’ve been on the internet for 30 years, including BBSes and IRC, so I actually have a pretty good idea what it looked like before censorship.

This is bullshit propaganda and if you’re swallowing it all, I’m sorry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Censorship is when people can say the n word

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Honestly this is just xenophobia.

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