• Ascyron@lemmy.one
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    4 months ago

    So… Same as it’s been since the war on terror began in 2001?

    Oh, now they can assassinate white people in first world countries, not just drop bombs on weddings in mideast countries. I see. Totally makes all the difference.

    (I am feeling very cynical here haha, I get this is a big significant legal precedent for the USA but yeah)

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      4 months ago

      This was kind of my response. Everyone is thinking of Trump’s shit, I was wondering about Al Awlaki. Assassinate a 16yo American citizen at a child’s birthday party in Yemen? Np.

      What result did we expect except some weird middle ground that allows the war on terror and a shitload of other extra-judicial killings with no proper declaration of war? They’re codifying immunity that was already assumed.

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        4 months ago

        Thank you for being a far better person than I, in that you actually give enough of a fuck to remember at least one specific, named person who was murdered in the way I was described.

        This is not sarcasm it’s a genuine emotional appreciation. I don’t have it in me to remember, since all the shit news day in and day out just all blurs together and is too much for me to cope with if I tried to remember, but I’m glad someone is.

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          4 months ago

          Two. The Seals got his little sister.

          It does blur. I used to watch all the videos of police murders and try to remember the names. I also used to hope we would make progress.

          I think this ruling was the most likely outcome, but I was kinda wishing we’d get every ex-president, except maybe Jimmy Carter, in front of a firing squad.