willing to get into a shooting battle with the ICE-aligned PD

Very big assumption that it’d just be a shooting battle. It’d probably be more like car bombs. Think Ireland during the troubled times.

Uh, J6 was a culmination of crazy.

Yes, but I’d rather see her have a longer impact as a Senate leader like McConnell or Schumer

They fucking knew what to do with a corrupt political system.

Then why the f*ck are you here and commenting? You could have just skipped over this. Hell, you’re probably in the wrong sub-Lemmy.

GenX is smaller than the millennial generation

These are state charges, which means a different sovereign is prosecuting. Colorado is a blue state too. So, I wouldn’t expect her money to get her anywhere in that light.

The widespread lead poisoning we experience is not from antiquity. It is from air pollution. Leaded gas was only recently phased out completely. We will be dealing with this for several hundred year

The lead poisoning rate has actually dropped off:

The US lead poisoning rate is actually pretty decent when compared to the rest of the world:

It doesn’t matter who invented a technology, it mattered who proliferated it.

It does, and it doesn’t. The EPA finished phasing out leaded gasoline in 1996. It started in 1973.

Also, the smoking gun was real. US scientists were responsible for the petro chemical revolution and this technology was brought to the rest of the world. They had misgivings at the time it was not safe for human exposure and later confirmed it with their own studies.

True, but that isn’t a sin inherent to the United States. That is a sin belonging to all of humanity, and there are numerous cases of such things being done related to other hazards over the course of human history. I’m not trying to excuse the US’s industrial sciences, but I am trying to put it into perspective. Also, the corporate responsibility does not weigh on all of America. The US is not the gasoline industry alone.

While the concept of plastic may be traced back to other countries, the commercialization is not. Bakelite, the first mass produced plastic, was invented and manufactured in the US.

Yes, but the US generally keeps from perpetuating its impact on plastic pollution, unlike much of the rest of the world (including other industrialized countries).

Just like global warming, they always knew it was a problem and ignored it and later lied and created massive propaganda to counteract public opinion. This can be seen clearly with recycling and plastic. They created an impossible burden on the consumer in order to shift the blame for the pollution they created. This is rather common across different industries think big tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and our US food manufacturers.

As I mentioned, the US took a hard right with respect to climate change recently. but it is not the leader in CO2 emissions, and it is not the only developed nation with an undue per capita emission of CO2. Further, its C02 emissions has been dropping for the last ~30 years.

How much agent Orange was dropped by the British? Also, I don’t believe you are correct with who invented it even.

As a means of tactical warfare, Agent Orange was originally utilized by Britain during the Malayan Emergency of the 1950s. Britain used Agent Orange to defoliate the trees that could provide possible cover for insurgents as well as to destroy food crops.. In fact, the British were the first to use Agent Orange as a defoliant in South Asia. Under your logic of “the first to invent the process are the ones who bear all the blame” (which you have pointed to numerous times), the British would then be responsible for all of Agent Orange’s use is South East Asia.

The US has had its hand in destabilizing the countries that have modern slavery and has taken advantage through the markets to make profits from human slavery not to mention engaging in forced labor themselves.

It was the Cold War. The USSR also has effected such changes. In fact, the Russians are attempting to do that right at this very moment.

This is also ignoring other flavors of modern slavery like wage slavery.

Oh, so an exchange of value of wages is given? The value of labor is inherently bargained for. It is fundamental to contract law. The 13th Amendment inherently bans explicit slavery when it is not a punishment for a crime. What constitutes a crime is up to the legislative process for enacting a statute. Criminal law is expressly stated in Title 18 of the US Code. So, its not like ignorance would be an excuse, and the nature of labor as punishment for a crime =/= the colonial slave trade propegated by Europe.

The US abolishment of slavery was more about economic considerations than morality, so I think your entire premise may be off a bit. Simply put, it was cheaper to have sharecroppers than slaves. Slavery was outlawed in name only but never the spirit of it.

Actually, it was done through the Emancipation Proclamation, where Lincoln specifically said “I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free”. Admittedly, it was done because it was a necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, but the 13th Amendment kept that from coming back.

Europe banned the slave trade decades before the US. Unless you are talking some specific example and then you may have a point. That

Maybe, but Europe was well ready to continue benefiting from slavery, but Europe was discovered colluding with the Confederacy during the Trent Affair. Also, the UK had only banned slavery 30 years prior to the US, and France did so only during the French Revolution which was from 1789 to 1799. Hard to bash the US for being slower to do so when it was more or less within the lifetime of the revolutionary war’s fighters’ grandchildren.

Your obsessed with the concept of liberty but ignore that the US uses it as lip service to dominate and poison the world.

It is not lip service. All Americans are obsessed with the concept of liberty. If fact, the document that dissolved the US’s bond with the UK even mentions liberty in saying “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.

dominate and poison the world.

My point is that its human nature to do so, not an original sin from the US only. No nation is free from sin, but the US’s history as generally swung towards supporting liberty.

I have only touched on a fraction of what I know the US has done.

It is well admitted the US has done bad things. But, the US did and does a ton of good things to support the world’s well-being too. Hell, the US basically propped up the UK in fighting the Nazis with tits supply convoys.

I have researched this for decades now

Clearly . . .

the more I learn the more I realize I don’t know.

Keep learning.

I know you are not trying to come off as an apologist, but yet we are here.

Thanks for knowing and explaining my point/intent to me. Its always helpful to have someone explain that to me. Now that you’ve explained it, I now know my point wasn’t that it isn’t a nuanced topic.

This is why I . . . look to a better future that is not chained by the myopic rulers we have now.

That we both can agree on.

Okay, does this mean that they’re conceding an effective means to counter their money?

They probably did. These are the numbers after they eent through the tampering factory

I want AI agents to just go the fuck away!

Again with the toady. Is that some kind of award like an Emmy?

Oh, this reminds me, i have not said anything mean about ICE toady!

What’s a toady?

Words have meaning, and it is important to be accurate in what is said, especially in the legal context. It’d be a shame if the scope of who is held accountable for ICE is limited because of a technicality

They aren’t talking about that brokered marriage . . .

A rainforest down in South America. Here is a helpful Wikipedia article that might answer your question better.

I think you’re a bunch of fucking war criminal traitors

War crimes? No. Crimes against humanity? Yes.

Difference? While both are against the Rome Statute, they are in fact under different articles. Why? Some things are crimes that only apply when done by soldiers in war, while others are crimes against all of humanity when done irrespective of whether any party was a soldier or not.

Republicans.