I’m not aware of any laws that have been passed that are applied retroactively. It’s referred to as an ex post facto law, and in the U.S. it is prohibited in the Constitution (for whatever that is worth these days).

It absolutely is. It’s one of those things that you can’t really turn back from once you start down that road.

I think the issue is the very foundation of religion leads to an “us vs them” mentality.

Can also be repeated with LGBTQ. People will pontificate about these cultures oppressing them even as rights are eroding here in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Doesn’t split it by gender. Obviously there are much worse places (looking at you, Caribbean), but the U.S. needs to look in the mirror.

The extreme level wealth disparity is an inexcusable failure of our species.

FFS, people still doing this? Some people will deny regardless of how much evidence is presented, how many different sources corroborate, or how easily verifiable the claims are.

The cracks are really starting to show. The Democratic party is effectively tearing itself apart right now.

It is a disgusting tactic, but I would also note that Russia does not have a monopoly on it.

That his policies won’t be in effect forever.

Reagan, of all people

The American public used to broadly support Israel. That support has plummeted in the last 2 years, particularly among younger Americans. As they age into a more prominent voting demographic, this changes the types of platforms that politicians run, and win on.

I want to point out that the shift in opinion is more a generational one than left/right one, even though there is a notable difference between the parties.

They don’t have to. They just have to stop blocking other nations from doing so, e.g. via UN vetoes and various sanctions against ICC.

Can we all just agree that attacking and killing civilians is bad, regardless of who is doing it? I wouldn’t expect that to be too much.

Tbh, killing military personnel isn’t exactly “good” either if the destroying equipment, vehicles, and structures is enough to achieve military objectives.

No, no you see it’s “Trump will get harder for Israel than Kamala.”

There is no statue of limitations on genocide. And Trump won’t be president forever. And younger Americans (i.e. the future) are really fucking sick of Israel’s shit.

So what you’re telling me is that Israel has killed dozens of trans people? Western propaganda would have had me believe that they were some mecca of LGBTQ tolerance.

What was the alleged “military value” of bombing a prison?

Those articles always get a bunch of trolls though.

The split is between governments and the general public. I don’t know too many individuals who are ok with what is going on. And if they are, they are being awfully quiet about it.

Because they are unfairly biased in favor of Israel. The U.S. has shown its bias by denying the war crimes that every serious scholar has agreed is happening. The state of Israel itself has tried to shoehorn “criticism of the state of Israel” into the definition of antisemitism.

Governments will stretch and distort definitions to suit their purposes.