• FluffyPotato
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    5 months ago

    Isn’t fighting piracy like legal for everyone? Like a private citizen or any country’s military could go out there and hunt pirates. I remember that from when the somali pirates got yeeted.

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        5 months ago

        No AUMF required to bonk pirates. It’s the national version of self defense.

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      5 months ago

      None of these representatives objected to us sinking boats involved in piracy operations. They’re objecting to attacks on land against a group that is pretty close to a government. There’s some point at which on-land operations turn from being defending against piracy to regime change. Which may be warranted, but should be decided by Congress.

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        5 months ago

        I’m pretty sure you can attack the pirates when they get back on land too.

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            5 months ago

            I think that’s a baseball reference I’m too european to get

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              Ha I see why you might think so but I was referring to “neighborhood rules” for kids’ games like Tag. We’d often designate a light pole or a car as “home base” and you couldn’t be tagged as “It” if you were touching it.

              I hope you play tag in Europe or else this didn’t make sense either lol

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                Ah instead a game I’m either too old to remember or too woman to have played. It does sound vaguely familiar though.