Ackshually the Bible doesn’t require celibacy. The Pope even suggested that married priests might be allowed in the future.

I talked to someone in finance, and the first thing they said is that nothing has guaranteed returns.

I don’t know, but one thing to consider is that the treaty in question never actually came into effect because not enough countries ratified it.

The US, China, Israel, India, North Korea, and Pakistan are all nuclear powers but have not ratified the treaty. Now Russia has joined that list, leaving France and UK as the only nuclear powers that ratified it.

Why? Because DoD is obeying a law written by Congress that prevents them from disclosing that information. This can only change when Congress acts to change it.

The simple answer is that Congress, as a whole, gets to make laws.

Congress could make a law allowing DoD to classify documents. And Congress did.

Congress could make a law allowing DoD to issue security clearances, but not require DoD to issue the highest clearance to every legislator. And Congress did.

Congress could make a law prohibiting DoD from giving classified documents to people without sufficient clearance, including legislators without sufficient clearance. And Congress did.

DoD is simply following the rules that Congress itself wrote for them. If Congress wanted, they could rewrite the rules to automatically give every legislator the highest security clearance. But Congress won’t.

I wouldn’t worry about US actions even if they did recognize the ICC.

“Aid and abet” has a specific legal definition. It means doing something in the hopes that a crime will succeed, or encouraging someone to commit a crime.

So for instance, if you sold your car to someone who used it to rob a bank then you wouldn’t necessarily have aided and abetted the robbery. A prosecutor would have to prove that you sold the car because you wanted the buyer to use it in a bank robbery.

I think it’s pretty clear, by word and action, that the US does not want to see a genocide in Gaza. To the extent that they are providing support to Israel, they are actively encouraging Israel to use it only for legal activities, i.e. destroying Hamas, not killing civilians unnecessarily.

You’re dreaming. There are no lawyers on this case. There isn’t even a case.

After all, the Dutch Prime Minister has expressed the same views as Biden. If holding that opinion was a war crime, The Hague could arrest Mark Rutte within 45 minutes.

I’m not worried about the International Criminal Court. The ICC isn’t The Intercept, so the ICC doesn’t twist words or invent quotes to fit anti-American prejudices. The ICC judges people by what they actually said, and it’s clear that Biden didn’t say what you wish he said.

If so then the article is wrong, because “unwavering” does not appear in that speech. Neither does “unconditional”.

However, “unequivocally” does:

United States unequivocally stands for the protection of civilian life during conflict, and I grieve, I truly grieve for the families who are killed or wounded by this tragedy. And people of Gaza need food, water, medicine, shelter. Today, I asked the Israeli Cabinet I met with for some time this morning to agree to the delivery of lifesaving humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza …

What sets us apart from the terrorists as we believe in the fundamental dignity of every human life; Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, Jew, Muslim, Christian, everyone, you can’t give up what makes you who you are. If you give that up, then the terrorists win and we can never let them win…

that’s why as hard as it is, we must keep pursuing peace. Must keep pursuing a path so that Israel and the Palestinian people can both live safely in security, and dignity and in peace. For me, that means that two state solution. We must keep working for Israel’s greater integration with his neighbors, these attacks and only strengthen my commitment and determination and my will to get that done.

Because the article was not directly quoting Biden.

What Biden actually said:

My Administration’s support for Israel’s security is rock solid and unwavering.

Biden pledged unwavering support for Israel’s security.

That is not the same as unconditional support for Israel.

After all, the US government is also fully committed to the security of former President Trump, but otherwise does not support him at all. In fact, some in government are thinking about how to keep him secure in a prison cell.

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unconditional

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

The last election was in 2019, so the next one must be no later than 2024.

Well, someone’s gotta take the piss out of Amazon.

Nothing. There are millions of lapsed Catholics and converts out of Catholicism. The church does not take action against them.

Excommunication is meant for practicing Catholics. It means “You can’t take part in Catholic sacraments until you stop disagreeing with the church.”

It is obviously pointless if someone already left the church. In fact, the people excommunicated most often - by far - are Catholic clergy who dissent about some matter of doctrine.

By the time he rose to power, Hitler was no longer a practicing Catholic. In fact he publicly aligned himself with “Deutsche Christen”, a Nazi version of Protestantism. So again, excommunication would have been pointless.

never excommunicated, not even retroactively

You can’t be excommunicated retroactively.

Excommunication is meant to socially pressure someone into repentance, which is obviously pointless after death.

I don’t need to watch the footage. An execution is sanctioned by the state. This is a murder, not an execution.

Nothing in the article says they were “executed”.