mtraven
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knowledge plumber, metacognitive engineer, dada scientist, anarchitect, investigative pataphysician, certified subgenius saint, professional amateur.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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Donald J Trump is committing TREASON,. repeatedly!
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Donald J Trump is committing TREASON,. repeatedly!
Yes and I was making a reference to Lovecraft, in the context of a post about Lovecraft.
You really ought to find some better use of your time than this idiotic language policing.
You really ought to find some better use of your time than this idiotic language policing.
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Yes and I was making a reference to Lovecraft, in the context of a post about Lovecraft.
You really ought to find some better use of your time than this idiotic language policing.
You really ought to find some better use of your time than this idiotic language policing.
I take it you have never read any HP Lovecraft. Better keep it that way if you have tender sensibilities.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I take it you have never read any HP Lovecraft. Better keep it that way if you have tender sensibilities.
Also there are tribes of degenerate cultists worshipping their idol in strange rites (monster truck rallies, Oakland sideshows, rolling coal...)
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Also there are tribes of degenerate cultists worshipping their idol in strange rites (monster truck rallies, Oakland sideshows, rolling coal...)
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November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Sunny skies, flags, costumes, signs, and community — 60+ of us gathered again in Colma and we will keep coming back until everyone’s rights are secure! #Resist #TeslaTakedown #StopICE #SNAP #EndTheShutdown #Vote #FreeDC #FreeLA #FreeChicago #FreePortland #Indivisible #WeThePeople #Colma #California
