Based USA and Israel…
Yea, and the US “vote” is actually a veto. The US needs to lose its UN veto power because of shit like this.
No single country should have veto power in the first place.
The problem with this is that it’s either veto through vote or veto through force. The US can easily flip the table and walk out to try to enforce whatever it wants but that’s obviously bad for world peace so this is its ineffective but less destructive compromise.
The article would be better if it linked to the reasons for the no votes and critiqued them. Otherwise, it’s just low effort outrage bait. To be clear, I don’t think the no votes were justified. I just don’t like low effort outrage bait.
https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/03/24/u-s-explanation-of-vote-on-the-right-to-food/
There will always be nitpicks whenever the resolution is not completely meaningless and devoid of any actionable steps. If the vote was started again just stating that nations are generally against starvation, then I’m sure the US would vote yes.
But maybe not!
The explanation given in this link is complete hogwash.
Israel: we disagree because we don’t believe our enemies deserve human rights.
USA: yeah, and can’t profit off of people or oppress foreigners if you guarantee people food, either.
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To steel man their argument, dont agriculture companies like Monsanto develop resistance and things that get around real problems?
If they cant patent their seed then how would those solutions come into being. Surely life saving pharmaceuticals could be classified the same, or shelter, yet we still allow private ownership of those things.
The solutions should come into being by governments funding the research instead of funding wars.
Same goes for pharmaceuticals (which the US does contribute a lot of money to)
Ah of course. Everything should be communist.
I wish there was a label on peoples comments.
Living in the US as somebody who pays attention to the world and cares about people and stuff is absolutely surreal sometimes.
It’s especially so when you’re one of the last people to have had an analog childhood (The Oregon Trail generation represent) so all the adults you knew as a child grew up in the post-ww2 prosperity and genuinely believed all the American exceptionalism stuff.
The only thing it seems we are best at is striking the perfect evil balance where I can’t decide if it feels more Black Mirror or more Hunger Games.
I’m starting to think that Israel is where most of the evil in the world comes from.
For some reason its always them somehow involved
How to locate evil forces: start asking questions about human rights. Noted.
There’s nothing mild about the fury this inspires in me.
Shithole countries
If the idiots can’t see the trend yet, will they ever?
To the idiots, the trend is that the US and Israel are the only great countries on earth.
“Best country with best president thats why we need to get him to run a third term”
Saw that yesterday. Holy f…
Nestlé, claiming to be the country of Hydra, claimed a cultural and historic right to all the world’s fresh water, stating that it was promised to them 3000 years ago.
I’d like a list of all UN resolutions that (almost only) the USA & Israel vetoed, pretty please.
Well, a particularly jarring one is the USA’s refusal to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Everyone else, including Israel, has ratified it, except them.
Because they want child labour, and to be able to keep executing children, and bombing schools, apparently.
Israel doesn’t have veto powers as they’re not in the security council. They can only vote ‘no’.
This is like saying Jim Henson wasn’t really on the Muppet Show.
I’m just waiting for the world leaders, one after another, to cut all ties with both these entities. Will they dare? Will they form a new alliance? Will the world unite against the true tyrants? Stay tuned.
The Israel’s “anti-jew/antisemitic” rhetoric only works with the west, so it could take a very long time for leaders with bigger balls to just say “that’s not gonna work anymore”. USA is currently on the path to self isolation.
It’s already happening, but it’s in usually a slow disentangling of payment systems, software, tech, … Just cut and run would be very damaging. And like many things in politics it’s often two steps forward one step back.
Yes I know it takes time, but hopefully it’s done while trump is still alive.
Unless! 🤞
I fear they might replace him with someone who’s actually competent. Incompetence is currently limiting the evil.
Our EU leaders are sell-outs and still US bootlickers despite their act.
The ghoul VDL is blaming Iran for defending themselves.They won’t unite out of morality, but preservation.
Unfortunately, there may still be a long way to go, assuming the leadership doesn’t deny reality up until the nuke launches start.
It depends what end game they all want for us.
