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[–] 158 points 2 years ago
[–] 156 points 2 years ago (1 child)

What's next? North Korea as chair of the human rights forum?

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  • [–] 96 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fucking stupid timeline we're trapped in

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Reality really is beyond satire.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Man, the world’s gonna be a MUCH better place when the House of Saud finally goes the way of the dinosaur.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Unless it's just replaced with something objectively worse...which wouldn't be the first time in history something like that happened.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    They already massacred Yemen as a monarchy while their crown prince is known for dismembering journalists, they're about as bad as it gets.

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fair enough. If you want to solve the problem of gender equality, give it to the experts.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    The UN is a captured organization. It no longer serves its purpose, and is now an arm of the oil producing countries state departments more than anything. I don't have a good suggestion for what to replace it with but it's sure AF not worthy of being respected any longer.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The UN's purpose is

    "To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;"- United Nations Charter, Chapter I: Article 1: Section 1

    the other sections reference international friendship and equal rights, but section 1 is the meat f why it exists, the UN was created after two World Wars, it's primary goal is to prevent a third and has so far been overwhelmingly successful.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I don't think peace through submission was the original goal here though is the point

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I'd rather the assholes of the world think they're accomplishing something by writing bullshit resolutions rather than dropping bombs.

    We just have to not take the UN seriously while still having the authoritarian assholes think the UN is serious business.

    The Security Council is the only thing that ever really mattered anyway. Having the nuclear powers have to sit in a room together is important. The General Assembly has always been a clown show.

    We have a bunch of alliances between democracies (NATO and other alliances) and the security council because we have to negotiate with the authoritarians with nukes. The minor despots can have the UN General Assembly to clown around in. Better to have petty narcissistic dictators throw their tantrums in the UN GA rather than expressing their feelings with their military.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Amnesty is not a news source. They are fundraising, here. The article is devoid of necessary contextual information.

    UN Commission executive boards are elected not appointed positions. In some UN bodies, chairs rotate in alphabetical order, but not this one. Maybe there was a midterm vacancy and the seat was filled by an appointment process? What is that process? When is the earliest the seat could be recalled?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can't find anything about their process.

    There's really not much about it, the UN page is here: https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/gender-equality

    Mostly they seem to have conferences every decade or so and occasionally declare a "International day for X". Seems like a PR kind of thing to me.

    But at any rate it's a bad look for the UN. Indicates a dysfunction in the organization that whatever process they have allowed this to happen. I mean it looks like it's a PR campaign that actually makes them look bad. If Guterres was competent he'd shut the thing down entirely and start another one that didn't suck. But since he's an idiot and he will probably just say it's somehow Israel's fault.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The UN: how can we be more of a joke to the world??

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh oh, let's appoint an atheist to the board of Islamic affairs!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Even then, I think an average atheist politician would handle Islamic affairs more fairly than an average Muslim politician would handle gender equality affairs, at least in most cases.

    There is no atheist book that the atheist has to follow. The Quran, on the other hand, has misogyny kind of built into it, sadly.

    Edit: I feel like I should add that this misogyny problem isn't unique to Islam. The Abrahamic religions all have outdated takes on gender equality. I would have the same negative feelings about a devout Christian politician being put in charge of gender equality.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    Hahahaha.

    Klown world.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    Well, if you want to know how gender inequality works, just ask the Saudis.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I guess the "freedom of the press" forum leadership spot was already taken?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    The world is not even trying anymore

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    It's getting harder and harder to make satire because it keeps becoming reality.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    After COP 28 this totally makes sense.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Well we know his wife won't be driving him to the meetings

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  • [+] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    UN trolling hard these days. Damn

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago
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