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Nope. The ICJ adjudicates cases between member states. Its rulings can be cited by the Security Council in making resolutions, but that is neither required nor common. Most UNSC resolutions make no reference to the ICJ at all.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. It was the idea of Tax stroking that done me in.

The ICJ does not issue condemnations, and its rulings are not subject to veto by any country.

You mean American Democrats? President Franklin Roosevelt, who ordered the Manhattan Project, was and still is widely excoriated by the right for visiting such horrific evils as rural electrification and old-age pensions on the American people. Harry Truman, who ordered it used, was also...

Pure what? Pure cussedness, if this board is any indication.

Adios.

Um. . . that's literally freedom. The kind of freedom most people who identify as conservative claim to want. If you want something, buy it. If you don't have money, die in a ditch.

If you believe in an omnipotent, omniscient Gawd, reality is like the rules of football: changeable at will. If you believe in an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent Gawd, you're a fool. Gawd cannot be all three and allow evil or suffering in the universe.

Don't need to. In low-organization societies, like the ancient Greeks, the Nordic tribes sometimes inaccurately called "Vikings," northern Europe, and among some Native tribes, slavery was merely the lowest rung on the social ladder (and sometimes not even that). It was not hereditary and it...

Them too. Jefferson said so!

Don't know. Induns in what is now the U.S. were all merciless Indian savages. Not sophisticated enough to have laws, much less legal status of individuals.

Given the general level of agreement on facts these days, every damn thing's a matter of opinion.

Way less sense. It's perfectly feasible that in a warming system, there could be cooling spots. Like lumps in the smashed potatoes.

The best man always wins. It's the groom, poor bastard, who loses.

Iowa's fuckin' weird.

You think he beat Biden, don't you?

Nope. All that could be done with a wave of His Mighty Hand. Or with a divine thought. Gawd seems to enjoy cruelty and misery, given how easily Gawd could stop it.

Yep, like the movie trope "No cop ever solved a case until he'd been suspended and went rogue." Funny how the people who cheer when the cops rough up protesters and FNs get all horrified when they rough up honk-honkers or Ezra Levant. And vice versa.

Kids can learn that Lincoln freed the slaves (he didn't), but not that Washington and Jefferson owned 'em.

Me? I think they created a Gawd in their own image. I prefer the custom of potlatching. You demonstrate your power and value by giving away stuff. Useful stuff. To folks who can use it. By the way, to quote Stephen from Braveheart, "Quit changin' the subject and answer the fockin' question."