▲ 606 ▼ US seizes nearly 1 million barrels of Iranian oil allegedly bound for China (www.cnn.com) submitted 2 years ago by Rapidcreek@reddthat.com to c/world@lemmy.world 464 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) Seizing over a hundred million of oil is a pretty big ouch to any business permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) For business sure. But what about consequences for the people who made the decisions? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jarfil@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago They get fired for losing the company 100 million? They get a bonus for implementing a better way of doing the same thing the next 50 times? Dunno, I'm not an oil smuggling expert. permalink fedilink source parent [–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Not for the shipping company. It's not their oil. The Iranians can ask the shipping company for compensation, which they could easily refuse and there isn't much recourse that the Iranians would have. The Chinese could demand compensation but if the company again refuses or claims insolvency or whatever, it's easier for the Chinese to just stiff the Iranians with payment instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Acters@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* A dream that won't come true, these people only see this as part of the risk of doing business and will try again in the same way, hoping to not get caught, or will find a legal loophole. permalink fedilink source parent [+] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org -32 points 2 years ago (2 children) You want the United States to arrest someone in Greece for transporting oil from Iran to China? I don't see how it's any of our fucking business. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 years ago (2 children) The company is based in Los Angeles you knob permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] tryptaminev@feddit.de -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) So instead of putting the US capital investors in prison and seizing the assets of the equity firm, they seize the oil and fuck the greek company. That is judiciary colonialism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago judiciary colonialism Colonialism is defined here as "things I don't like" permalink fedilink source parent [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -9 points 2 years ago Good point permalink fedilink source parent [+] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org -13 points 2 years ago (1 child) No. A LA based private equity company technically owned the boat at the time of transfer (they do not own it anymore, it's been sold to the Greek company). That US based company is seemingly off Scott free in this situation and the Greek company is the one being fined and sanctioned. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] deft@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 years ago AT THE TIME OF THE TRANSFER Watch as he desperately reaches for straws!! You literally said this yourself and then ignore that you did lmfao. US jurisdiction, just cause they tried musical chairs or whatever is just nonsense of them trying to pull some shit. Case closed sis. permalink fedilink source parent [+] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org -12 points 2 years ago They plead guilty to violating the IEEPA, which is a law we passed that says if we declare an emergency we can regulate whatever international commerce we feel like. The US being being wealthy enough that companies choose to comply so they can still have our business doesn't make it right. permalink fedilink source parent [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -35 points 2 years ago (3 children) The company is Greek. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 child) The company is Greek. The ship was owned by a US company: "But the Suez Rajan case was unique at the time of the transfer because it was owned by the Los Angeles-based private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management. " source permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -41 points 2 years ago (2 children) Great. You got me on a technicality. So it’s okay for any country to steal oil from another if that tanker, or it’s propeller, was once owned by the thieving country? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (1 child) was once owned by the thieving country? Once owned? You mean during the time the crime was committed? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -42 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why is piracy okay? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not piracy. Being held accountable to the laws in which there is proper jurisdiction. You're making a strange nonsensical argument. Lets plug your argument into a similar theoretical situation: Lets say a US company owns a truck and is transporting cocaine in the United States from a South American drug cartel to their drug distribution networks in Vancouver, British Columbia. The police pull over the truck and find the drugs. Being illegal they seize the truck and the drugs. You're arguing the South American drug cartel should be given their cocaine back because the cartel and the drug distribution network in Vancouver is outside of the United States. That makes your logic laughably naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. My argument is sound. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. This isn’t difficult. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? The company that chose to operate within the US jurisdiction, in these cases, by owning the vehicles to doing the transport. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. What kind of schoolyard logic are you working with here? Do you really have no idea how geopolitics works? No country has to have permission to sanction another. It is a choice one country makes to no buy from another. There is nothing preventing Iran from selling its oil to China. They're just not allowed to do it with anything that is owned by the US government, US companies and those countries that choose to follow the same sanctions. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. They absolutely do if they're using something owned by the USA, in this case the tanker itself. My argument is sound. Your argument is naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. Indirectly Iran agreed to it with the use of a US owned tanker. Why did they think they could do that when it breaks US law? This isn’t difficult. I agree it isn't difficult. Don't want to be bound by US rules and law? Don't use US owned property, operating in US waters, use US banking systems, or any of the other countries that choose to follow US sanctions against a country. See how easy it is? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. The owner of the ship is ancillary. It’s justification for an internationally illegal act. I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. You should take your own advice with this statement. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. Factually false. You operate in the US or with US companies you're agreeing to be bound by our laws. Don't like it? Use non-US or non-US-allies companies. The owner of the ship is ancillary. Here's where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. I weep for the people of Hong Kong. China is systematically stripping them of their representation. However, Hong Kong is part of China. Its Chinese laws, inside of China. I have no say in what they do in Hong Kong. China is fully within their rights to do so even if I believe it will harm the Chinese people with regard to their long term prosperity. I didn't even bring up China here, but curiously you did. 你是 中国人吗? You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… Here's another place where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Id pay so much money to work on HR at a company where you have to take sanctions compliance training. Your emails about "colonialism" would be fucking framed on my desk. This is hilarious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago you got me on a technicality "I can declassify anything I want just by thinking about it" permalink fedilink source parent [–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago (1 child) Oaktree Capital Management doesn't sound very Greek to me. Maybe it's because the company is based in Los Angeles.... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -32 points 2 years ago (1 child) Your justifying piracy. It’s okay when we do it. But not when they do. How magnanimous. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is the opposite of what magnanimous means. mag·nan·i·mous /maɡˈnanəməs/ adjective generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I know. /s permalink fedilink source parent [+] zane@kbin.social -15 points 2 years ago (2 children) If it does business in the US, its a US company. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SpookyOperative@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago ??? There are thousands of companies that do business in the US that aren't american. permalink fedilink source parent [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -15 points 2 years ago Source? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) Seizing over a hundred million of oil is a pretty big ouch to any business permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) For business sure. But what about consequences for the people who made the decisions? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jarfil@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago They get fired for losing the company 100 million? They get a bonus for implementing a better way of doing the same thing the next 50 times? Dunno, I'm not an oil smuggling expert. permalink fedilink source parent [–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Not for the shipping company. It's not their oil. The Iranians can ask the shipping company for compensation, which they could easily refuse and there isn't much recourse that the Iranians would have. The Chinese could demand compensation but if the company again refuses or claims insolvency or whatever, it's easier for the Chinese to just stiff the Iranians with payment instead. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) For business sure. But what about consequences for the people who made the decisions? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jarfil@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago They get fired for losing the company 100 million? They get a bonus for implementing a better way of doing the same thing the next 50 times? Dunno, I'm not an oil smuggling expert. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago They get fired for losing the company 100 million? They get a bonus for implementing a better way of doing the same thing the next 50 times? Dunno, I'm not an oil smuggling expert. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Not for the shipping company. It's not their oil. The Iranians can ask the shipping company for compensation, which they could easily refuse and there isn't much recourse that the Iranians would have. The Chinese could demand compensation but if the company again refuses or claims insolvency or whatever, it's easier for the Chinese to just stiff the Iranians with payment instead. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Acters@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* A dream that won't come true, these people only see this as part of the risk of doing business and will try again in the same way, hoping to not get caught, or will find a legal loophole. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org -32 points 2 years ago (2 children) You want the United States to arrest someone in Greece for transporting oil from Iran to China? I don't see how it's any of our fucking business. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 years ago (2 children) The company is based in Los Angeles you knob permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] tryptaminev@feddit.de -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) So instead of putting the US capital investors in prison and seizing the assets of the equity firm, they seize the oil and fuck the greek company. That is judiciary colonialism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago judiciary colonialism Colonialism is defined here as "things I don't like" permalink fedilink source parent [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -9 points 2 years ago Good point permalink fedilink source parent [+] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org -13 points 2 years ago (1 child) No. A LA based private equity company technically owned the boat at the time of transfer (they do not own it anymore, it's been sold to the Greek company). That US based company is seemingly off Scott free in this situation and the Greek company is the one being fined and sanctioned. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] deft@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 years ago AT THE TIME OF THE TRANSFER Watch as he desperately reaches for straws!! You literally said this yourself and then ignore that you did lmfao. US jurisdiction, just cause they tried musical chairs or whatever is just nonsense of them trying to pull some shit. Case closed sis. permalink fedilink source parent [+] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org -12 points 2 years ago They plead guilty to violating the IEEPA, which is a law we passed that says if we declare an emergency we can regulate whatever international commerce we feel like. The US being being wealthy enough that companies choose to comply so they can still have our business doesn't make it right. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 years ago (2 children) The company is based in Los Angeles you knob permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] tryptaminev@feddit.de -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) So instead of putting the US capital investors in prison and seizing the assets of the equity firm, they seize the oil and fuck the greek company. That is judiciary colonialism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago judiciary colonialism Colonialism is defined here as "things I don't like" permalink fedilink source parent [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -9 points 2 years ago Good point permalink fedilink source parent [+] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org -13 points 2 years ago (1 child) No. A LA based private equity company technically owned the boat at the time of transfer (they do not own it anymore, it's been sold to the Greek company). That US based company is seemingly off Scott free in this situation and the Greek company is the one being fined and sanctioned. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] deft@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 years ago AT THE TIME OF THE TRANSFER Watch as he desperately reaches for straws!! You literally said this yourself and then ignore that you did lmfao. US jurisdiction, just cause they tried musical chairs or whatever is just nonsense of them trying to pull some shit. Case closed sis. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] tryptaminev@feddit.de -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) So instead of putting the US capital investors in prison and seizing the assets of the equity firm, they seize the oil and fuck the greek company. That is judiciary colonialism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago judiciary colonialism Colonialism is defined here as "things I don't like" permalink fedilink source parent [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -9 points 2 years ago Good point permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago judiciary colonialism Colonialism is defined here as "things I don't like" permalink fedilink source parent
[+] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org -13 points 2 years ago (1 child) No. A LA based private equity company technically owned the boat at the time of transfer (they do not own it anymore, it's been sold to the Greek company). That US based company is seemingly off Scott free in this situation and the Greek company is the one being fined and sanctioned. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] deft@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 years ago AT THE TIME OF THE TRANSFER Watch as he desperately reaches for straws!! You literally said this yourself and then ignore that you did lmfao. US jurisdiction, just cause they tried musical chairs or whatever is just nonsense of them trying to pull some shit. Case closed sis. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] deft@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 years ago AT THE TIME OF THE TRANSFER Watch as he desperately reaches for straws!! You literally said this yourself and then ignore that you did lmfao. US jurisdiction, just cause they tried musical chairs or whatever is just nonsense of them trying to pull some shit. Case closed sis. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org -12 points 2 years ago They plead guilty to violating the IEEPA, which is a law we passed that says if we declare an emergency we can regulate whatever international commerce we feel like. The US being being wealthy enough that companies choose to comply so they can still have our business doesn't make it right. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org -12 points 2 years ago They plead guilty to violating the IEEPA, which is a law we passed that says if we declare an emergency we can regulate whatever international commerce we feel like. The US being being wealthy enough that companies choose to comply so they can still have our business doesn't make it right. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -35 points 2 years ago (3 children) The company is Greek. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 child) The company is Greek. The ship was owned by a US company: "But the Suez Rajan case was unique at the time of the transfer because it was owned by the Los Angeles-based private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management. " source permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -41 points 2 years ago (2 children) Great. You got me on a technicality. So it’s okay for any country to steal oil from another if that tanker, or it’s propeller, was once owned by the thieving country? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (1 child) was once owned by the thieving country? Once owned? You mean during the time the crime was committed? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -42 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why is piracy okay? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not piracy. Being held accountable to the laws in which there is proper jurisdiction. You're making a strange nonsensical argument. Lets plug your argument into a similar theoretical situation: Lets say a US company owns a truck and is transporting cocaine in the United States from a South American drug cartel to their drug distribution networks in Vancouver, British Columbia. The police pull over the truck and find the drugs. Being illegal they seize the truck and the drugs. You're arguing the South American drug cartel should be given their cocaine back because the cartel and the drug distribution network in Vancouver is outside of the United States. That makes your logic laughably naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. My argument is sound. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. This isn’t difficult. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? The company that chose to operate within the US jurisdiction, in these cases, by owning the vehicles to doing the transport. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. What kind of schoolyard logic are you working with here? Do you really have no idea how geopolitics works? No country has to have permission to sanction another. It is a choice one country makes to no buy from another. There is nothing preventing Iran from selling its oil to China. They're just not allowed to do it with anything that is owned by the US government, US companies and those countries that choose to follow the same sanctions. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. They absolutely do if they're using something owned by the USA, in this case the tanker itself. My argument is sound. Your argument is naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. Indirectly Iran agreed to it with the use of a US owned tanker. Why did they think they could do that when it breaks US law? This isn’t difficult. I agree it isn't difficult. Don't want to be bound by US rules and law? Don't use US owned property, operating in US waters, use US banking systems, or any of the other countries that choose to follow US sanctions against a country. See how easy it is? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. The owner of the ship is ancillary. It’s justification for an internationally illegal act. I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. You should take your own advice with this statement. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. Factually false. You operate in the US or with US companies you're agreeing to be bound by our laws. Don't like it? Use non-US or non-US-allies companies. The owner of the ship is ancillary. Here's where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. I weep for the people of Hong Kong. China is systematically stripping them of their representation. However, Hong Kong is part of China. Its Chinese laws, inside of China. I have no say in what they do in Hong Kong. China is fully within their rights to do so even if I believe it will harm the Chinese people with regard to their long term prosperity. I didn't even bring up China here, but curiously you did. 你是 中国人吗? You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… Here's another place where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Id pay so much money to work on HR at a company where you have to take sanctions compliance training. Your emails about "colonialism" would be fucking framed on my desk. This is hilarious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago you got me on a technicality "I can declassify anything I want just by thinking about it" permalink fedilink source parent [–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago (1 child) Oaktree Capital Management doesn't sound very Greek to me. Maybe it's because the company is based in Los Angeles.... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -32 points 2 years ago (1 child) Your justifying piracy. It’s okay when we do it. But not when they do. How magnanimous. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is the opposite of what magnanimous means. mag·nan·i·mous /maɡˈnanəməs/ adjective generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I know. /s permalink fedilink source parent [+] zane@kbin.social -15 points 2 years ago (2 children) If it does business in the US, its a US company. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SpookyOperative@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago ??? There are thousands of companies that do business in the US that aren't american. permalink fedilink source parent [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -15 points 2 years ago Source? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 child) The company is Greek. The ship was owned by a US company: "But the Suez Rajan case was unique at the time of the transfer because it was owned by the Los Angeles-based private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management. " source permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -41 points 2 years ago (2 children) Great. You got me on a technicality. So it’s okay for any country to steal oil from another if that tanker, or it’s propeller, was once owned by the thieving country? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (1 child) was once owned by the thieving country? Once owned? You mean during the time the crime was committed? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -42 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why is piracy okay? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not piracy. Being held accountable to the laws in which there is proper jurisdiction. You're making a strange nonsensical argument. Lets plug your argument into a similar theoretical situation: Lets say a US company owns a truck and is transporting cocaine in the United States from a South American drug cartel to their drug distribution networks in Vancouver, British Columbia. The police pull over the truck and find the drugs. Being illegal they seize the truck and the drugs. You're arguing the South American drug cartel should be given their cocaine back because the cartel and the drug distribution network in Vancouver is outside of the United States. That makes your logic laughably naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. My argument is sound. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. This isn’t difficult. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? The company that chose to operate within the US jurisdiction, in these cases, by owning the vehicles to doing the transport. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. What kind of schoolyard logic are you working with here? Do you really have no idea how geopolitics works? No country has to have permission to sanction another. It is a choice one country makes to no buy from another. There is nothing preventing Iran from selling its oil to China. They're just not allowed to do it with anything that is owned by the US government, US companies and those countries that choose to follow the same sanctions. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. They absolutely do if they're using something owned by the USA, in this case the tanker itself. My argument is sound. Your argument is naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. Indirectly Iran agreed to it with the use of a US owned tanker. Why did they think they could do that when it breaks US law? This isn’t difficult. I agree it isn't difficult. Don't want to be bound by US rules and law? Don't use US owned property, operating in US waters, use US banking systems, or any of the other countries that choose to follow US sanctions against a country. See how easy it is? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. The owner of the ship is ancillary. It’s justification for an internationally illegal act. I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. You should take your own advice with this statement. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. Factually false. You operate in the US or with US companies you're agreeing to be bound by our laws. Don't like it? Use non-US or non-US-allies companies. The owner of the ship is ancillary. Here's where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. I weep for the people of Hong Kong. China is systematically stripping them of their representation. However, Hong Kong is part of China. Its Chinese laws, inside of China. I have no say in what they do in Hong Kong. China is fully within their rights to do so even if I believe it will harm the Chinese people with regard to their long term prosperity. I didn't even bring up China here, but curiously you did. 你是 中国人吗? You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… Here's another place where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Id pay so much money to work on HR at a company where you have to take sanctions compliance training. Your emails about "colonialism" would be fucking framed on my desk. This is hilarious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago you got me on a technicality "I can declassify anything I want just by thinking about it" permalink fedilink source parent
[+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -41 points 2 years ago (2 children) Great. You got me on a technicality. So it’s okay for any country to steal oil from another if that tanker, or it’s propeller, was once owned by the thieving country? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (1 child) was once owned by the thieving country? Once owned? You mean during the time the crime was committed? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -42 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why is piracy okay? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not piracy. Being held accountable to the laws in which there is proper jurisdiction. You're making a strange nonsensical argument. Lets plug your argument into a similar theoretical situation: Lets say a US company owns a truck and is transporting cocaine in the United States from a South American drug cartel to their drug distribution networks in Vancouver, British Columbia. The police pull over the truck and find the drugs. Being illegal they seize the truck and the drugs. You're arguing the South American drug cartel should be given their cocaine back because the cartel and the drug distribution network in Vancouver is outside of the United States. That makes your logic laughably naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. My argument is sound. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. This isn’t difficult. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? The company that chose to operate within the US jurisdiction, in these cases, by owning the vehicles to doing the transport. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. What kind of schoolyard logic are you working with here? Do you really have no idea how geopolitics works? No country has to have permission to sanction another. It is a choice one country makes to no buy from another. There is nothing preventing Iran from selling its oil to China. They're just not allowed to do it with anything that is owned by the US government, US companies and those countries that choose to follow the same sanctions. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. They absolutely do if they're using something owned by the USA, in this case the tanker itself. My argument is sound. Your argument is naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. Indirectly Iran agreed to it with the use of a US owned tanker. Why did they think they could do that when it breaks US law? This isn’t difficult. I agree it isn't difficult. Don't want to be bound by US rules and law? Don't use US owned property, operating in US waters, use US banking systems, or any of the other countries that choose to follow US sanctions against a country. See how easy it is? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. The owner of the ship is ancillary. It’s justification for an internationally illegal act. I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. You should take your own advice with this statement. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. Factually false. You operate in the US or with US companies you're agreeing to be bound by our laws. Don't like it? Use non-US or non-US-allies companies. The owner of the ship is ancillary. Here's where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. I weep for the people of Hong Kong. China is systematically stripping them of their representation. However, Hong Kong is part of China. Its Chinese laws, inside of China. I have no say in what they do in Hong Kong. China is fully within their rights to do so even if I believe it will harm the Chinese people with regard to their long term prosperity. I didn't even bring up China here, but curiously you did. 你是 中国人吗? You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… Here's another place where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Id pay so much money to work on HR at a company where you have to take sanctions compliance training. Your emails about "colonialism" would be fucking framed on my desk. This is hilarious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago you got me on a technicality "I can declassify anything I want just by thinking about it" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (1 child) was once owned by the thieving country? Once owned? You mean during the time the crime was committed? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -42 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why is piracy okay? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not piracy. Being held accountable to the laws in which there is proper jurisdiction. You're making a strange nonsensical argument. Lets plug your argument into a similar theoretical situation: Lets say a US company owns a truck and is transporting cocaine in the United States from a South American drug cartel to their drug distribution networks in Vancouver, British Columbia. The police pull over the truck and find the drugs. Being illegal they seize the truck and the drugs. You're arguing the South American drug cartel should be given their cocaine back because the cartel and the drug distribution network in Vancouver is outside of the United States. That makes your logic laughably naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. My argument is sound. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. This isn’t difficult. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? The company that chose to operate within the US jurisdiction, in these cases, by owning the vehicles to doing the transport. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. What kind of schoolyard logic are you working with here? Do you really have no idea how geopolitics works? No country has to have permission to sanction another. It is a choice one country makes to no buy from another. There is nothing preventing Iran from selling its oil to China. They're just not allowed to do it with anything that is owned by the US government, US companies and those countries that choose to follow the same sanctions. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. They absolutely do if they're using something owned by the USA, in this case the tanker itself. My argument is sound. Your argument is naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. Indirectly Iran agreed to it with the use of a US owned tanker. Why did they think they could do that when it breaks US law? This isn’t difficult. I agree it isn't difficult. Don't want to be bound by US rules and law? Don't use US owned property, operating in US waters, use US banking systems, or any of the other countries that choose to follow US sanctions against a country. See how easy it is? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. The owner of the ship is ancillary. It’s justification for an internationally illegal act. I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. You should take your own advice with this statement. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. Factually false. You operate in the US or with US companies you're agreeing to be bound by our laws. Don't like it? Use non-US or non-US-allies companies. The owner of the ship is ancillary. Here's where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. I weep for the people of Hong Kong. China is systematically stripping them of their representation. However, Hong Kong is part of China. Its Chinese laws, inside of China. I have no say in what they do in Hong Kong. China is fully within their rights to do so even if I believe it will harm the Chinese people with regard to their long term prosperity. I didn't even bring up China here, but curiously you did. 你是 中国人吗? You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… Here's another place where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Id pay so much money to work on HR at a company where you have to take sanctions compliance training. Your emails about "colonialism" would be fucking framed on my desk. This is hilarious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -42 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why is piracy okay? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not piracy. Being held accountable to the laws in which there is proper jurisdiction. You're making a strange nonsensical argument. Lets plug your argument into a similar theoretical situation: Lets say a US company owns a truck and is transporting cocaine in the United States from a South American drug cartel to their drug distribution networks in Vancouver, British Columbia. The police pull over the truck and find the drugs. Being illegal they seize the truck and the drugs. You're arguing the South American drug cartel should be given their cocaine back because the cartel and the drug distribution network in Vancouver is outside of the United States. That makes your logic laughably naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. My argument is sound. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. This isn’t difficult. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? The company that chose to operate within the US jurisdiction, in these cases, by owning the vehicles to doing the transport. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. What kind of schoolyard logic are you working with here? Do you really have no idea how geopolitics works? No country has to have permission to sanction another. It is a choice one country makes to no buy from another. There is nothing preventing Iran from selling its oil to China. They're just not allowed to do it with anything that is owned by the US government, US companies and those countries that choose to follow the same sanctions. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. They absolutely do if they're using something owned by the USA, in this case the tanker itself. My argument is sound. Your argument is naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. Indirectly Iran agreed to it with the use of a US owned tanker. Why did they think they could do that when it breaks US law? This isn’t difficult. I agree it isn't difficult. Don't want to be bound by US rules and law? Don't use US owned property, operating in US waters, use US banking systems, or any of the other countries that choose to follow US sanctions against a country. See how easy it is? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. The owner of the ship is ancillary. It’s justification for an internationally illegal act. I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. You should take your own advice with this statement. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. Factually false. You operate in the US or with US companies you're agreeing to be bound by our laws. Don't like it? Use non-US or non-US-allies companies. The owner of the ship is ancillary. Here's where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. I weep for the people of Hong Kong. China is systematically stripping them of their representation. However, Hong Kong is part of China. Its Chinese laws, inside of China. I have no say in what they do in Hong Kong. China is fully within their rights to do so even if I believe it will harm the Chinese people with regard to their long term prosperity. I didn't even bring up China here, but curiously you did. 你是 中国人吗? You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… Here's another place where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Id pay so much money to work on HR at a company where you have to take sanctions compliance training. Your emails about "colonialism" would be fucking framed on my desk. This is hilarious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not piracy. Being held accountable to the laws in which there is proper jurisdiction. You're making a strange nonsensical argument. Lets plug your argument into a similar theoretical situation: Lets say a US company owns a truck and is transporting cocaine in the United States from a South American drug cartel to their drug distribution networks in Vancouver, British Columbia. The police pull over the truck and find the drugs. Being illegal they seize the truck and the drugs. You're arguing the South American drug cartel should be given their cocaine back because the cartel and the drug distribution network in Vancouver is outside of the United States. That makes your logic laughably naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. My argument is sound. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. This isn’t difficult. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? The company that chose to operate within the US jurisdiction, in these cases, by owning the vehicles to doing the transport. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. What kind of schoolyard logic are you working with here? Do you really have no idea how geopolitics works? No country has to have permission to sanction another. It is a choice one country makes to no buy from another. There is nothing preventing Iran from selling its oil to China. They're just not allowed to do it with anything that is owned by the US government, US companies and those countries that choose to follow the same sanctions. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. They absolutely do if they're using something owned by the USA, in this case the tanker itself. My argument is sound. Your argument is naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. Indirectly Iran agreed to it with the use of a US owned tanker. Why did they think they could do that when it breaks US law? This isn’t difficult. I agree it isn't difficult. Don't want to be bound by US rules and law? Don't use US owned property, operating in US waters, use US banking systems, or any of the other countries that choose to follow US sanctions against a country. See how easy it is? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. The owner of the ship is ancillary. It’s justification for an internationally illegal act. I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. You should take your own advice with this statement. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. Factually false. You operate in the US or with US companies you're agreeing to be bound by our laws. Don't like it? Use non-US or non-US-allies companies. The owner of the ship is ancillary. Here's where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. I weep for the people of Hong Kong. China is systematically stripping them of their representation. However, Hong Kong is part of China. Its Chinese laws, inside of China. I have no say in what they do in Hong Kong. China is fully within their rights to do so even if I believe it will harm the Chinese people with regard to their long term prosperity. I didn't even bring up China here, but curiously you did. 你是 中国人吗? You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… Here's another place where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Id pay so much money to work on HR at a company where you have to take sanctions compliance training. Your emails about "colonialism" would be fucking framed on my desk. This is hilarious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. My argument is sound. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. This isn’t difficult. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? The company that chose to operate within the US jurisdiction, in these cases, by owning the vehicles to doing the transport. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. What kind of schoolyard logic are you working with here? Do you really have no idea how geopolitics works? No country has to have permission to sanction another. It is a choice one country makes to no buy from another. There is nothing preventing Iran from selling its oil to China. They're just not allowed to do it with anything that is owned by the US government, US companies and those countries that choose to follow the same sanctions. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. They absolutely do if they're using something owned by the USA, in this case the tanker itself. My argument is sound. Your argument is naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. Indirectly Iran agreed to it with the use of a US owned tanker. Why did they think they could do that when it breaks US law? This isn’t difficult. I agree it isn't difficult. Don't want to be bound by US rules and law? Don't use US owned property, operating in US waters, use US banking systems, or any of the other countries that choose to follow US sanctions against a country. See how easy it is? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. The owner of the ship is ancillary. It’s justification for an internationally illegal act. I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. You should take your own advice with this statement. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. Factually false. You operate in the US or with US companies you're agreeing to be bound by our laws. Don't like it? Use non-US or non-US-allies companies. The owner of the ship is ancillary. Here's where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. I weep for the people of Hong Kong. China is systematically stripping them of their representation. However, Hong Kong is part of China. Its Chinese laws, inside of China. I have no say in what they do in Hong Kong. China is fully within their rights to do so even if I believe it will harm the Chinese people with regard to their long term prosperity. I didn't even bring up China here, but curiously you did. 你是 中国人吗? You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… Here's another place where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Id pay so much money to work on HR at a company where you have to take sanctions compliance training. Your emails about "colonialism" would be fucking framed on my desk. This is hilarious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) What gives the US proper jurisdiction? The company that chose to operate within the US jurisdiction, in these cases, by owning the vehicles to doing the transport. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. What kind of schoolyard logic are you working with here? Do you really have no idea how geopolitics works? No country has to have permission to sanction another. It is a choice one country makes to no buy from another. There is nothing preventing Iran from selling its oil to China. They're just not allowed to do it with anything that is owned by the US government, US companies and those countries that choose to follow the same sanctions. Nor do they have to adhere to a law made in the United States, unless they agreed to it internationally. They absolutely do if they're using something owned by the USA, in this case the tanker itself. My argument is sound. Your argument is naive, willfully ignorant, or maliciously in bad faith. Other countries don’t have to obey US law, unless they agreed to that law. Indirectly Iran agreed to it with the use of a US owned tanker. Why did they think they could do that when it breaks US law? This isn’t difficult. I agree it isn't difficult. Don't want to be bound by US rules and law? Don't use US owned property, operating in US waters, use US banking systems, or any of the other countries that choose to follow US sanctions against a country. See how easy it is? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. The owner of the ship is ancillary. It’s justification for an internationally illegal act. I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. You should take your own advice with this statement. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. Factually false. You operate in the US or with US companies you're agreeing to be bound by our laws. Don't like it? Use non-US or non-US-allies companies. The owner of the ship is ancillary. Here's where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. I weep for the people of Hong Kong. China is systematically stripping them of their representation. However, Hong Kong is part of China. Its Chinese laws, inside of China. I have no say in what they do in Hong Kong. China is fully within their rights to do so even if I believe it will harm the Chinese people with regard to their long term prosperity. I didn't even bring up China here, but curiously you did. 你是 中国人吗? You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… Here's another place where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Id pay so much money to work on HR at a company where you have to take sanctions compliance training. Your emails about "colonialism" would be fucking framed on my desk. This is hilarious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -10 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. The owner of the ship is ancillary. It’s justification for an internationally illegal act. I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. You should take your own advice with this statement. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. Factually false. You operate in the US or with US companies you're agreeing to be bound by our laws. Don't like it? Use non-US or non-US-allies companies. The owner of the ship is ancillary. Here's where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. I weep for the people of Hong Kong. China is systematically stripping them of their representation. However, Hong Kong is part of China. Its Chinese laws, inside of China. I have no say in what they do in Hong Kong. China is fully within their rights to do so even if I believe it will harm the Chinese people with regard to their long term prosperity. I didn't even bring up China here, but curiously you did. 你是 中国人吗? You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… Here's another place where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Id pay so much money to work on HR at a company where you have to take sanctions compliance training. Your emails about "colonialism" would be fucking framed on my desk. This is hilarious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so. Iran did not agree to be sanctioned. You should take your own advice with this statement. Therefore, any “laws” the United States implements is illegal. Factually false. You operate in the US or with US companies you're agreeing to be bound by our laws. Don't like it? Use non-US or non-US-allies companies. The owner of the ship is ancillary. Here's where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." I wonder if you would defend China so vociferously if they played the same game with America? I don’t think you would. I weep for the people of Hong Kong. China is systematically stripping them of their representation. However, Hong Kong is part of China. Its Chinese laws, inside of China. I have no say in what they do in Hong Kong. China is fully within their rights to do so even if I believe it will harm the Chinese people with regard to their long term prosperity. I didn't even bring up China here, but curiously you did. 你是 中国人吗? You are defending a crime. But, muh freedom… Here's another place where you should apply your own logic: "Just because you want something to be true, doesn’t make it so." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is exhausting. The sanctions are illegal and condemned internationally. Any law approved and applied after that fact is immaterial. Get it. It doesn’t matter if the boat is American. It doesn’t matter if it was US dollars and an American company. The overarching sanctions are illegal, so any adjudication after is illegal. Capiche? Those are the same three flawed ideas you've stated over and over again. You are disconnected from reality if you're trying to pass that off as truth. The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Capiche? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way. Then maybe we should change it. Or do you want to conserve the status quo and not progress into the future? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please tell me one nation that has it all figured out whose rules we can use for the world. No one has. We have many different versions and the US is just one. You're complaining about the laws the US writes for itself and its citizens. Is it perfect? Far from it, but its much better than authoritarian regimes like Iran, Russia, or China writing the rules that everyone would have to follow if you get your way. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) My concern are the sanctions, which don’t accomplish their goals, and disproportionately affects the people of Iran. It is an exercise in power, to demonstrate power, and is condemned by the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) So for our thought experiment now, YOU'RE the one writing the rules: What rule (besides sanctions) would YOU put in place to accomplish the goals without disproportionately affecting the people of Iran? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. Follow the UN. A rule: The Golden Rule. Don’t do anything to another country that you wouldn’t want done to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) We have an organization for this, the United Nations. They condemn the sanctions. I've seen no sources say that. Back up your statement with a real source that says that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Iran: US sanctions violating human rights of all living there, say UN experts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) First, thank you for posting that. Second, you should be seeing the problem with it. Its not the UN, as a governing body, saying that. From your source: " the group of Special Rapporteurs and the Independent Expert on international solidarity, said in a statement." This is a group of people hired by the HRC, not even a binding UN resolution either. The HRC is following its mandate to: "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights ". They call out the results of actions, without addressing the reasons or actions to solutions to why those actions were taken. They're not wrong, but their statements are incomplete. Its okay for them though, its not their mandate to come up with solutions, just to call out problems. Where is the UN's enforcement answer to curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program? This is hard and confusing world or geopolitics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* The UN still sanctions their nuclear ambitions. Which I agree with, because it’s the UN. America is unilaterally doing the economic sanctions, which they do not agree with. It would be difficult for the UN to vote to condemn the US due to the structure of the organization (US led). So they have to do it with press releases. They did vote on the Cuban embargo and blockade. And every member country except the US and Israel voted to end it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Id pay so much money to work on HR at a company where you have to take sanctions compliance training. Your emails about "colonialism" would be fucking framed on my desk. This is hilarious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Glad you enjoyed it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago you got me on a technicality "I can declassify anything I want just by thinking about it" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago (1 child) Oaktree Capital Management doesn't sound very Greek to me. Maybe it's because the company is based in Los Angeles.... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -32 points 2 years ago (1 child) Your justifying piracy. It’s okay when we do it. But not when they do. How magnanimous. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is the opposite of what magnanimous means. mag·nan·i·mous /maɡˈnanəməs/ adjective generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I know. /s permalink fedilink source parent
[+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -32 points 2 years ago (1 child) Your justifying piracy. It’s okay when we do it. But not when they do. How magnanimous. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is the opposite of what magnanimous means. mag·nan·i·mous /maɡˈnanəməs/ adjective generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I know. /s permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is the opposite of what magnanimous means. mag·nan·i·mous /maɡˈnanəməs/ adjective generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I know. /s permalink fedilink source parent
[+] zane@kbin.social -15 points 2 years ago (2 children) If it does business in the US, its a US company. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SpookyOperative@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago ??? There are thousands of companies that do business in the US that aren't american. permalink fedilink source parent [+] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -15 points 2 years ago Source? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SpookyOperative@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago ??? There are thousands of companies that do business in the US that aren't american. permalink fedilink source parent