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CrazyEyeJoe  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Back of a napkin COVID-19 calculations

    5 - is the US the only country reporting honestly?

Or maybe you have one of the world's most incompetent leaders.

From the vantage point of Europe, the US response to this crisis has been beyond laughable. And it wasn't amazing here either, so that's saying something.





am_Unition  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You guys should try Trump in an international court for criminal negligence regarding his covid-19 inactions. We're too fucking stupid to hold him accountable for anything here. Thanks in advance

kleinbl00  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would fucking love the entire Trump administration to live under a Rumsfeldian fear of rendition should they ever set foot outside the united states ever again.

am_Unition  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Few weeks ago, I asked a hornet's nest of liberal lawyers if it was possible, and they expressed very little hope :(

tacocat  ·  1697 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I believe we don't recognize the International Criminal Court and it's been proposed or legislated that we can invade the Hague under certain conditions. Because we do lots of crimes of the war and against humanity type.

The ICC pretty much only prosecutes African leaders for some odd reason

veen  ·  1697 days ago  ·  link  ·  

you can invade wHAT NOW

tacocat  ·  1697 days ago  ·  link  ·  
veen  ·  1697 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well I'll be damned. Good thing it's near the sea so the rest of the country can be circumvented.

tacocat  ·  1697 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think John Bolton really has a hard on to invade the Hague. Invading things is like his favorite thing

I'm kinda surprised the law exists. I thought I was getting the story wrong and it was just a proposal that no one took seriously

Devac  ·  1697 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Spain and Italy turn fascist, Czech and Slovakia unite to give up together one last time, BeNeLux puts forward a motion of no confidence against Trump which takes 5 years to resolve, every street in France forms their own resistance to fight for their vision of France, whatever Britain does will make them think they won the war, Nordics and Switzerland get richer, nobody cares about the Balkans, and Germany and Russia take over Poland because old habits die hard.

One big /s

ButterflyEffect  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Let’s exclude the entire west coast of the US from that statement but otherwise I agree.

steve  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

no doubt a part of the equation.