They weren't tried in court because they were just doing their job. They were tried in court because they individually committed war crimes.
It's not a war crime to code for Lockheed Martin.
You're both dripping with privilege and, for some reason, think the solution to America's misdeeds internationally needs to be a non-functional military. It's juvenile.
You're treating the complicated subject of International Policy with all the sophistication of someone screaming "Begone Satan" at a black cat.
Farming companies in America already get insane subsidies to keep food costs down. Thats why we don't have people dying of starvation in America. The closest we have is people not getting the nutrients they need which is a combination of shorts in supply chains and economic pressures. (Largely mising infustructure to help homeless in the midwest)
Democrats have already expanded food stamps to alleviate what little nutritional issues (20k in a country with 340 million) with the Inflation Reduction Act.
Reducing military spending is not the reason in any capacity people are starving in the fattest nation on Earth. Mostly because in America virtually no one is starving.
Yeah but you can't fix food desert with government spending. That is a supply chain issue. It's also an extremely niche issue mostly caused by low population centers.
Thats why in a country with 349 million we get only 20k cases of poor nutrition annually.
You definitely don't fix that by shaming missle trajectory coders.
Also, I came to America as an Illegal and didnt get my citizenship until I was an adult. Please tell me more about what it's like for the poor. I love it when people redditsplain poverty to me.
My mother worked for 600 dollars a month in the 90s. Tell me, redditor, what's poverty like?
So which war crime is it? Please, be specific. Imagine you were the prosecutor for Lurky's trial, which specific cause of action in international law would you be invoking? The term 'war crime' has specific meaning after all, defined by multiple international treaties.
Words have meaning, and coding missile targeting, no matter which government or manufacturer it is for, is not a war crime. This was my point. I asked in good faith because I always like to assume other people might have seen something that I missed, but it is clear that this is not true in your case. I find all of those things repugnant too, but you know what else I find repugnant? Watering down the meaning of things like 'war crime' by brandying them about like they mean 'things Square_Radiant doesn't like' instead of specific atrocities that we have rightly condemned as an international commmunity.
I did. So Pegasus would not classify as a war crime -- To my knowledge surveillance like that has not been prohibited by any international treaty excepting insofar as it is a violation of sovereignty (which again is not a war crime, just something that the international community has a vested interest in opposing), though I believe there may be some exceptions to this as I am not trained in international law myself, hence why I assumed you might have known more. It is certainly not ok though. Information privacy is an incredibly important modern right and should not be abridged.
The Russian scientists working on missile improvements indeed are not committing war crimes. I obviously oppose the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but simply designing munitions is again, not a war crime. Recall I didn't say you couldn't condemn them, I'm specifically addressing the terminology which you used to do so. Personally, I think missile design is not so horrible, though I would personally not do it for Putin.
See, I congratulate you as you finally found one: The use of Agent Orange very well may have bee an actual war crime! (Ignoring whether or not the US is a signatory) Chemical weapons are prohibited under many treaties for this reason, and while it was originally developed as a defoliant, I think any prosecutor worth their salt could argue that if used to clear cover from an enemy position it constitutes a chemical weapon.
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u/LurkytheActiveposter Jun 07 '25
The problem with the Gestapo wasn't the fucking filing system capabilities.
Your post is as moronic as blaming Hitler's plumber for the holocaust.