The Trump administration’s massive military attack on Venezuela, launched with 150 aircraft, reportedly killed upwards of 80 people, including civilians. In utter defiance of the mandates of the United Nations Charter, U.S. forces launched the attack as they kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, who have been transported to New York…

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  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    What if they make it legal? Would it make it right? Objective morality is at odds with current post-modern Western understandings, they’ll keep falling the same cliffs and take us with them until they realize yes, some things are always wrong!

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      It really breaks people’s brains to disconnect morality from the law. I’m sometimes at a loss for words when talking to people about the law and just how much of a fabrication it is.

      Graham Planter said that a bill failed that would have stopped this from happening. That’s not how laws work. They don’t stop anything. It’s the threats that matter, and who is going to threaten the POTUS? No one apparently.