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While the events within the world will have been inescapable public knowledge, the nuance that the main characters and the readers have won't be publicly widespread. People would know that there were some superheroes and some magic and that elves...
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LafinJack commented on
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"...and I have zero intention of explaining why." If there exists a witty aphorism equating to no-commenting/pleading-the-Fifth being equivalent to an affirmative answer then I would have commented with that instead of rambling....
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Scott Sanford commented on
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I wonder why they went to Interpol - this sounds more like the ICJ’s area of authority. JBS has a good point; the ICJ is a part of the UN and the United Nations is not trusted by the Reich wing of American politics. On the nitpicking hand, the ICJ addresses disputes between nations [wiki]. Murder is a criminal charge so Iran is reporting it to the International Police organization. Given that the accused is currently holding political office, Interpol has declined to take any actions. Article 3 of their charter says "It is strictly forbidden for the Organization to...
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Greg Tingey commented on
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Rocky Tom That's bullshit, I'm afraid. The tax paid wil be to one country or another, you can't evade that one ......
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Robert Prior commented on
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The US has form for ignoring the ICJ — winning a case against them there doesn't actually win you anything, so trying to do so seems wasted effort....
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Autarch commented on
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Worst case scenario: we hit swine flu in 2021 with Trump in his second term ordering USAF air strikes on foreign vaccine factories world-wide. That's disturbingly plausible!...
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