According to Articles 1 (2), 2 (1) and 74 of the UN Charter, the imposition of unilateral sanctions violates the principles of the Charter, the principle of equality of states, the development of friendly relations and good neighborliness, and consideration of each other's interests and well-being.

[–] dumdum666@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Are you LARPing being a communist in Eastern Germany? Are you wiretapping your home yourself or do you ask other LARPers to do it for you?

[–] Syldon -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How long has China been adopting the UN charter?

This is news to me. I guess we can all forget about the nine-dash line from today.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The UN Charter is the foundational document that the UN is built on. UNCLOS is a convention (one that, for what it's worth, the US never ratified). The PCA is a non-UN body that's sometimes used as an arbitration mechanism between two parties to avoid conflict.

Do you have any grasp on international law, or do you just enjoy whataboutism?

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dunno. Are there any illegal ways to pass sanctions as laws? I mean governments are caught all the time breaking their own laws. I wouldn't put it passed congress to break the very laws they themselves have passed in complicity because they all benefit from it in some way.

[–] Syldon 1 points 10 months ago

Most western governments are held accountable to their own laws. This is why Trump is in the bother he is in today. There are always going to be one or two slippery characters, but versus the autocracies in the world, they have a much higher hit rate.

[+] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, they've been here from well before the Reddit migration. It was just that the activity from Reddit migrants had died down and now you're seeing more of what Lemmy was beforehand.

[–] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ah. It’s a bummer.

I’m ok with criticism of the US, but this just seems like a targeted stream of anti western crap.

It’s sad that the internet is getting trashed by state actors for their own gain, and unfortunate for those who take it all at face value.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's a more likely target for state actors:

A small federated social media platform with a limited audience and that, by design, decentralizes control

Reddit, which literally has Atlantic Council members deciding content moderation policy

It's not anyone else's fault that the US has been taking L after L recently internationally.

[–] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works -3 points 10 months ago

Reddit is manipulated for sure. I didn’t say it wasn’t.

I said that Lemmy shows all the signs of bullshit propaganda. I think the US has its pros and cons, but I can tell RT like content when I see it.

A small social media platform is easy to manipulate as well. The goal for Russia is to divide the West and anger people. When only 15 upvotes will get something to Top for the day, that’s pretty ripe for abuse.

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You think state actors are targeting lemmy? That seems like an incredibly bad investment. Do you think the troll farms boss would be happy with me posting on here instead of facebook or twitter?

It's actually far more likely that your opinion (including this hot take right here) has been formed by many an organization or rich dude throwing money at promoting their views in both traditional media and social media. Of course this place here seems out of place to you, you're the one that has taken the propaganda at face value.

[–] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago

Actually, there is high value in posting where their upvotes matter a lot. That’s why Russia hijacked r/conspiracy - because they didn’t have the numbers to overwhelm some of the bigger subreddits.

A new medium like Lemmy is easy to hijack. And clearly it’s happening. I read a very broad cross section of news, and a lot of the stuff that’s getting upvoted here is simply lame anti—west propaganda.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes this is what the world looks like when you don't have nazis and the state department censoring stuff they don't like. You'll get used to it.

[–] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Uh huh. Riiight.

I’ve been on the internet for 30 years, including BBSes and IRC, so I actually have a pretty good idea what it looked like before censorship.

This is bullshit propaganda and if you’re swallowing it all, I’m sorry.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Censorship is when people can say the n word

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago

Honestly this is just xenophobia.