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kava@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThe US supplied 80% of the bombs dropped on Gaza.
Do you believe US civilians should be prohibited from interacting with the rest of the world?
rarbg@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
How the fuck is banning people in certain countries from contributing to small projects like this doing anything but shooting the FOSS ecosystem, which already has a severe shortage of developers, in the foot?
kava@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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whataboutism isn’t some magical phrase that you can utter every time someone brings up hypocrisy
if we’re going to support sanctioning civilians based on their countries breaking international law, then we should not have double standards. otherwise it’s very clearly a geopolitical issue and not a moral one.
and that’s what this is actually about. the US sanctions on Russia are a geopolitical tool meant to make the Russian re-subjugation of Ukraine more expensive. that’s it.
to me, that doesn’t justify banning individuals from participating in OSS projects. anybody that wants to contribute should be able to.
T156@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They’re too big to fail. At least, they were, but they’re scaling back these days, so they may be sanctioned sooner or later.
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I mean, it’s probably in their best interest to avoid us. We are a terrible country.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As a US citizen. YES. FFS, the point of sanctions is to compel a change or deter an action. Americans might pay way more attention when the rest of the world puts us in timeout because of the terrible leadership.
kava@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Research has shown it has historically had very little to no impact on policy. What it does do is harm the lowest rungs of society.
For example a 2019 report on Trump’s Venezeuala sanctions estimate up to 40,000 people died. Mostly poor people who went without healthcare and medicine because the US froze all of the government’s funds and access to credit.
In my opinion, I’d prefer if we just bombed civilians in the countries we sanction. It’s more honest. It really is a form of low level warfare. Something akin to a medieval raiding party
Litebit@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It is the lowest rung that supports the russia invasion in ukraine.
kava@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Attacks against civilian targets are war crimes. When you do it through sanctions its OK.
I’m just asking that we are more honest about it. For example instead of putting sanctions on Venezuela we could have just done what Israel is doing to Gaza and gotten similar death toll.