[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

This is about an Indian-Canadian being assassinated in Canada by the Indian government.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago
[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

I've heard that the young'uns call "ohio" things that are weird and cringey.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

This makes no sense. Why would Hamas, that has spent all this effort digging a whole network of underground tunnels use an overground school as a command center?

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh look, the Israelis did that thing that they always do, and ensured the new guy is someone more hardcore than the previous guy. And then they will act all surprised when the next bad thing happens. And when we say "we told you so, wtf did you expect would happen", they will throw a hissy fit.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Americans, take a look at how the European Court of Justice is staffed:

The Court of Justice consists of 27 Judges who are assisted by 11 Advocates-General. The Judges and Advocates-General are appointed by common accord of the governments of the member states[7] and hold office for a renewable term of six years. The treaties require that they are chosen from legal experts whose independence is "beyond doubt" and who possess the qualifications required for appointment to the highest judicial offices in their respective countries or who are of recognised competence.[7] In practice, each member state nominates a judge whose nomination is then ratified by all other member states.[8]

The Court can sit in plenary session, as a Grand Chamber of fifteen judges (including the president and vice-president), or in chambers of three or five judges. Plenary sittings are now very rare, and the court mostly sits in chambers of three or five judges.[19] Each chamber elects its own president who is elected for a term of three years in the case of the five-judge chambers or one year in the case of three-judge chambers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Justice

Not to mention that there are more than one "supreme courts" with different types of expertise.

There is the General Court, the Civil Service Tribunal, and of course very importantly the European Court of Human Rights.

Spread the hazard of hyper-concentration as thin as possible.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago

Here's a fucking idea: tax wealth.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Let’s say that Hamas is 10% of the population - I don’t think it is, but let’s use that number.

The Palestinians are already on the verge of famine. This will make things worse, and disease is absolutely going to decimate the population.

Decimation was the Roman practice of killing 1 out of every 10 mutinous/deserter (i.e., guilty of something) soldiers to punish an entire legion while still keeping it operational as a combat unit. Here we have the opposite. It is killing 9 innocents to get to also kill 1 additional (very hypothetically) guilty person.

This is the saddest "um ackchyually" I have ever written.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Meunier developed a major pressure sore on his buttocks that eventually worsened to the point where bone and muscle were exposed and visible — making his recovery and prognosis bleak.

He was told the sore — a gaping hole a few centimetres in diameter — would, at best, take several months to heal, according to the experts they consulted.

Don't trivialize the sore.

Also, what is mind blowing is that this monstrosity is nosocomial. The healthcare system gave it to him.

So why would he have any trust to such a system afterwards to care for him with his disability in the long term?? This is a completely catastrophic healthcare failure.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 6 months ago

hUmAn ShiELdS

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Just because there were all sorts of people living in historic Palestine that used the word "Palestinian" to mean a geographic origin does not mean that the people that are known today as Palestinians do not exist as a people with the right to its own self determination and nationhood. Saying that kind of thing because Palestinian Jews existed (who today in their vast majority clearly identify as blue-passport Israeli, and no longer as Palestinian) is at best as ludicrous as the stupid claim that "Arabs cannot possibly be anti-Semitic as they are themselves Semites". At worst the denial of the existence of Palestinians as a people is Putin style genocidal language.

I don't know of any Jewish people genuinely identifying themselves with that people. When Golda Meir was saying she is a Palestinian she was not identifying the Arabs, Muslims and Christians as her compatriots, she was doing it to deny them peoplehood. And again, no, the existence of the Mizrahim, the Arab Jews does not imply that the term Arab does not today have a specific meaning in the Israeli-Palestinian context. When Israeli fascists chant "death to Arabs" the don't mean the Mizrahim...

On the other hand I know plenty Muslims, Christians and atheists who do identify as Palestinian. The Israeli state does the same thing giving these people green passports and prohibiting their descendants from entering.

I'm Greek. My country made a huge stupid stink about the Macedonians. The fact that historic Macedon was Greek does not mean that Macedonians as a people don't exist. The fact that Macedonia the region contains Macedonian Greeks, Macedonian Albanians, Macedonian Bulgarians does not mean that the Macedonian people don't exist. I'm an anti-nationalist from the Balkans, buddy, not some naive amerikanaki, ready to swallow national ideologies and mythologies with wide eyes.

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