I feel like it takes effort to be this uninformed

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 1 year ago

I feel like it takes effort to be this uninformed

Wertheimer [any] · 1 year ago

The UN is a political organization and says whatever countries vote it to say. It’s also not a legislative organization, it’s basically a big political club of people who like to write strongly worded letters about things. Only the UNSC has teeth, and that hasn’t declared it illegal for obvious reasons.

The U.S. can veto its own condemnation, therefore the U.S. can never be condemned. Checkmate, tankies.

HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided] · 1 year ago

they're right, "international law" is a joke that large nations use to justify their treatment of small nations, but never vice versa.

JuneFall [none/use name] · 1 year ago

International law:

This book critically examines existing theories of international law and makes the case for an alternative Marxist approach. China Miéville draws on the pioneering jurisprudence of Evgeny Pashukanis linking law to commodity exchange, and in turn uses international law to make better sense of Pashukanis. Miéville argues that despite its advances, the recent ‘New Stream’ of radical international legal scholarship, like the mainstream it opposes, fails to make sense of the legal form itself. Drawing on Marxist theory and a critical history of international law from the sixteenth century to the present day, Miéville seeks to address that failure, and argues that international law is fundamentally constituted by the violence of imperialism.

HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided] · 1 year ago

i'm a fanboy, you had me at mieville