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"Yankees not like it when someone threatens to annex your country against your will?"
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Dane here. while your offer is flattering, we can’t accept as we have our own environmental problems to fix first. We don’t need another dumpster to clean.
But but but... You could clean Texas!
It would require a genocide to clean Texas of all their environmental issues. And as far as I’m concerned, genocide is wrong.
That implies massacring minorities
Genocide is only that when aimed at a race, not a locale
You are free to nuke the whole place by merit of their stance alone
Genocide is any group of people. A culture or national group, religious group, race, identity, or whatever else. If you're identifying a group of people to destroy (not even just kill, but targeted destruction) that's a genocide.
That definition is way too broad and ignores why the term exists. Genocide is a specific legal concept from the 1948 UN Convention, not a catch-all word for any group of people you decide to label.
The law only covers national, ethnical, racial, or religious groups because those are the categories that have historically been targeted for systematic annihilation. Political groups were explicitly excluded when the convention was drafted for a reason. If you just define it as any group you want to destroy, the word loses all legal weight and precision.
You can call mass violence against other groups a crime against humanity or a war crime—those are still incredibly serious—but calling it genocide just because it fits your personal preference is factually wrong. Precision matters if you actually want to talk about international law rather than just throwing around emotionally charged terms.
Do you have any actual legal basis for your definition, or are you just making it up as you go?
Yeah, and legally Trump wasn't convicted of rape, because the court that convicted him had a definition that didn't match the common usage, which the judge explicitly pointed out IIRC. Legal definitions are just that. They're legal definitions, not the definition. Here's the wiki page. It starts by saying "Genocide is the partial or total destruction of a human group, committed intentionally."
Wiki. That's your backup? Why not a dictionary for starters
Absolutely incorrect, lol.
Genocide is the deliberate attempt to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
What do you say it is then? Instead of going: "nu-uh!" at things
context often helps the thinkers to recognize the non thinkers
Doesn't say anything about minorities either, unless you're using the word American-ly.
Ethnic might? I don't know how to teach you how to think critically I'm sorry. I would put money on you being American though, you're that willfully ignorant and obtuse
Do you find it hard putting pants on in the morning?
Is a nation or state a race? Is any race besides white a minority???
Fuck, you morons are exhausting.
I was going to say the same thing about you, lol. Fuck no, I'm not American.
Technically Texan is a nationality/demonym with a shared culture. You could argue that killing everyone in Texas would be a genocide based on that, but it would be open to interpretation.
I think a better argument would be that killing everyone in Texas would necessitate the extermination of the Tejanos, which is an established ethnicity and shared culture native to Texas.
If you attempt to destroy the entirety of a people in a state/province/nation, I think that's pretty cut and dry, but yeah I get what you're saying.
It's mostly semantic, but arguing semantics is kind of the basis of any legal system. Imo most conflicts that reach a level of total war vicariously engage in a collection of genocidal actions even if that is not the original intent.
No, most wars don't reach the level of genocide. Yes, most wars that the US has fought in reach the level of genocide. Hmm weird.
I clarified total war, which is when civilians and civilian infrastructure become legitimate targets of war.
Good for you.
You have an amazing ability to fluctuate between pedantry and purposeful ignorance.
You have no amazing abilities.
Your mom would beg to differ.
She told me you have a small dick and cum before you even get your pants off. That is pretty amazing, I suppose.
I didn't say I fucked your ogre of a mom...... She just thinks I'm a nicer person than her "worthless child". Her words, not mine.
Lmao, good try, prejaculator!
You seem to really want to bring this conversation back to me cumming on your mother...... Is this some kind of Freudian projection you have going on? Does thinking about Mommy make you want to bust?
Nice try. But your pants didn't even make it off. You pathetically came all over yourself lol.
So not a denial about the sexual thoughts about your mother and a stranger, you have a more indepth fantasy? That's a weird kink.
You're the one who brought it up, I was just yes anding you. My kink is when your mother sticks her tongue up my ass and jerks me off like I'm a trombone, but you don't see me plastering it all over lemmy.
Ahh, you have the memory of a goldfish. No wonder your mom kept saying you were such a disappointment.
Goldfish sounds better than whatever the fuck animal you have the memory of. Some sort of insect? An amoeba?
So you don't remember being the only person saying anything sexual about anyone's mother? Just parroting anything you hear without regard to context? The mommy kink must be eating away at your brain, much like an amoeba. It's interesting how much projection can be contained in one failing mind. Please, go on.
Sorry about your brain damage or mental handicap. Praying 4 u.
Lame, not even attempting original thought anymore. The syphilis must have just fully devoured your brain. The magic is gone.
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What? If you are being pedantic by focusing on my first statement and completely ignoring where I elaborated, what are we actually discussing here? My choice of words?
Uhh yeah. Your choice of words in a written communication are pretty important. You said genocide only matters if it's done to a race. I said you were wrong. You provided the definition, which proved you were wrong. You insulted me. I insulted you back. I'm sorry if this was a difficult chain for you to follow. Better luck next time.
Yes I did under define, then elaborated to correct that. It's a human way to communicate conscisely. I am sorry for insulting you but attacking someone whole wielding a wrong definition yourself came across as rude to me and as a statement wholly driven by ego.
Someone else commented that genocide is any group, which is just short sighted. I'll be elaborating further there if your ego demands you nitpick further.
Nah, I don't give a shit, have a good weekend 👍
You spell "excise" funny.
I vote we just let them have their independence. No need to inflict that on anyone.
This is fair.
What if we pay you to take us?