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Biden’s Job Approval is at 44% in this Harris poll.

The fact that Trump is up 6 should be alarming…..

Phase 5 turnout. Don't ask me to interpret this. I'm not jaichind.

He can try fearmongering but the horse has already bolted. Trump probably has a third of black men under 50.

Nope, any poll that says that is complete bullsh*t.

Anyway, even if that were true, that's irrelevant. Some Black people can be self-hating (and obviously make stupid decisions).

https://twitter.com/ksadjadpour/status/1792321737779974181

Tbf we still have our B52 bombers from like 1952

I'm an atheist because all religions are cults

I feel like you think this was an intelligent or insightful take.  Unfortunately, it’s pretty low hanging fruit spam of the neck beard variety.

This was not spam. This is my real opinion. Wasn’t intending to be insightful. You seem to have no sympathy for people whose childhoods were ruined by being raised religious. So instead, you decide to personally attack me because I quit the denomination you are a part of (probably because you see me as a traitor)

The ICC can go piss up a rope.  Israel should immediately make clear that any attempt to enforce this will be treated as a declaration of war.  Hopefully, the rest of the world does the right thing and uses the warrants for Gallant and Netanyahu as toilet paper.

If Israel does that, the only right thing to do for any European nation is to declare war.

We will obey ICJ whether you like it or not. And if Israel threatens with war, war it shall be.

Western Europe is a joke at this point and our increasingly reliant on major foreign powers to sustain their economy. Without us Western Europe’s economy would collapse and would be under constant threat from China and Russia so please understand that Western Europe is increasingly irrelevant in the world stage now .

As for red velvet , understand that I really don’t care as much about the “west” as you think I do . I care far more about American Hegemony than I do about all these so called institutions that Western Europe supports for example and also I think we are truly unique in our own ways .

Israel needs to immediately make clear that any country attempting to carry out these illegal warrants will be treated as if they attempted a kidnapping and hostage-taking of an Israeli official. And start sending Netanyahu around the world with a security force that can repel such an attempt.

Receiving countries can deny visas. Foreign citizens don't have a right to travel to other countries.

Such an action by the ICC I think would make Netanyahu persona non grata in most of Europe. They won't arrest him but that means to not having to arrest him and being exposed as hypocrites (a bunch of African states right now are salivating at the notion of European states being forced by law to arrest a foreign leader and choose not to), they just won't let him fly or travel there. The U.S. won't do anything to Netanyahu, but that's quite the long plane trip from Tel Aviv to New York and Netanyahu and his ministers would be even more effectively isolated internationally.

If Netanyahu flies to the U.S. and he is under ICC criminal charges and we choose to do nothing, then the U.S. can never say anything "ICC" again in any circumstance and have it be worth ten cents.

The official US position is that we have no obligations to the ICC and are further under no obligations to see the treaty's success. That's been more-or-less the American position since 2002. Hell, in 2021 Blinken made a statement about the State Department's "longstanding objection to the Court’s efforts to assert jurisdiction over personnel of non-States Parties such as the United States and Israel." So I doubt anyone would consider US statements on the ICC regarding Israelis to be relevant anyway.

The ICC can go piss up a rope.  Israel should immediately make clear that any attempt to enforce this will be treated as a declaration of war.  Hopefully, the rest of the world does the right thing and uses the warrants for Gallant and Netanyahu as toilet paper.

Probably wouldn't be a good idea for Israel to declare war on a NATO state creating an even bigger international crisis, most of alliance being Rome Statute signatories.

The thing is, and I think the US would agree, if said NATO state detained a leader of a foreign country based on a warrant from a court that country doesn't recognize, THEY would be the one declaring war.

How is this different than elite prep academies in the northeast? Or is this just another sh**t on the south while we do the same thing in another way

Elite academies in the Northeast at least uphold (or upheld) extremely rigorous academic standards and have extracurricular offerings that rival those of many colleges. That's not the case at segregation academies, where faculty recruitment & standards are lax, often even falling below public schools in the same area. I'm not in favor of either, just pointing out a major difference.

Israel needs to immediately make clear that any country attempting to carry out these illegal warrants will be treated as if they attempted a kidnapping and hostage-taking of an Israeli official. And start sending Netanyahu around the world with a security force that can repel such an attempt.

Receiving countries can deny visas. Foreign citizens don't have a right to travel to other countries.

Such an action by the ICC I think would make Netanyahu persona non grata in most of Europe. They won't arrest him but that means to not having to arrest him and being exposed as hypocrites (a bunch of African states right now are salivating at the notion of European states being forced by law to arrest a foreign leader and choose not to), they just won't let him fly or travel there. The U.S. won't do anything to Netanyahu, but that's quite the long plane trip from Tel Aviv to New York and Netanyahu and his ministers would be even more effectively isolated internationally.

If Netanyahu flies to the U.S. and he is under ICC criminal charges and we choose to do nothing, then the U.S. can never say anything "ICC" again in any circumstance and have it be worth ten cents.

Any country who is a signatory to the Rome Statute would be obliged to arrest him.

Didn't really work in South Africa with the Sudanese leader did it?

That would be a middle ground that would likely still have severe diplomatic consequences, both with Israel and the US, but not nearly the dangerous pandora's box that would ensue if any of these countries tried to detain Netanyahu or Gallant.

Way back in 2016, when all polling, prognostics by pundits and overall political climate point out to a Clinton blowout, I already knew she was in trouble early in the night when the margins in rural Kentucky and Indiana where lopsided for Trump. That was all confirned when Ohio was called before states in the west coast closed at 11PM EST and the margin was almost 10% when just the day before a columbus dispatch (gold standard for Ohio) showed a 1% Clinton edge.