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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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The US broke most of these when they invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
Unsurrender is a terrifying phrase.
Yeah it's a very haunting and impactful scene in general too, I think the show did a good job of depicting it.
What show is that from?
Generation Kill. Definitely worth a watch in my view.
It's a phrase that could only have been invented in the USA. So yeah... pretty damn terrifying.
“Oh sorry we thought is was called the Geneva Checklist”
They used the term ‘nongovernmental combatant’ (aka terrorist), because a war can only be between states these combatants were not legally POW and thus had no right whatsoever.
Under law, there's no such a thing as 'war', there are armed conflicts. It is also incorrect that armed conflicts can only happen between states, there are international, non-international conflicts and there are other situations of armed violence. And there are different level of international and human rights law that apply different depending on the type of conflict. There's also parts of tne resolutions that state that it doesn't matter what you call them, they're still POW and you still have to treat them as such. The real problem is that the US hasn't ratified any of those resolutions and conventions because they fear having any diplomatic oversight, the US has committed so many war crimes that it would take decades of research just to sort out the last half of the 20th century.
Finally, even if international humanitarian law doesn't apply, then international human rights law still does. But the US plays with rules based international order as their toy because they have the biggest guns and it is hard to front them. And before any of the what abouters comes here to reply, Russia and China are just as bad. No international neocolonialist empire is free of human rights violations.
Wait until you hear about Americas crimes in Vietnam and the rest of South East Asia!
S.E.A: "Can I get a little of those freedoms you claim to uphold?"
USA: "Absolutely fucking not"
Central and South America too.
And most of the were written because of the Canadian Marines, what's your point?
What is your point?