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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Nonono, you've decided on my behalf, based on pulling shit out of your ass, that I'm cool with companies doing environmental damage and slave labour.

If Amazon set up shop in Yemen and started blindly destroying and siezing ships in the red sea, they'd be getting bombed too.

Additionally, you've presented a false dichotomy - protecting trade in the red sea is not mutually exclusive with prosecuting corporations for climate crime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Amazon isn't at war with Israel. Ansarallah IS, and they're perfectly within their rights to enforce a blockade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The houthis aren't formally or de facto at war with Israel either, though you're right that they are involved.

But affected 3rd party countries are equally within their rights to protect critical trade infrastructure in international waters as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I guess the missiles and drones launched at Israel were just part of a special military operation then, my bad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying you're okay with it. I'm just pointing out that one offense justifies bombs and the other simply suing the boss (while admitting it doesn't do anything). I'm simply proposing we bomb Nestle before Yemen. In Minecraft of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If the houthis were acting from US territory, the approach would be very different, but the US government can't exactly go arrest them.

In Minecraft of course

I'm down, what server does nestle use? Time for some griefing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Can the US bomb anyone they can't arrest? Don't the Houthis deserve a fair trial by an independent jury? Can any country bomb another country if they feel like it?

I know the answer is that it's because the US it's powerful and doesn't give a damn about people in the global south. But this is a grave injustice and the evil American empire deserves to fall.