There’s a country that was planted somewhere it didn’t belong, murdered the people already living there, and claimed the land as its own… and then there’s its ally, Israel
is torture bad
was the african slave trade bad
is nazism bad
are Palestinians human beings
"just vote no, you never know what rights-less people we will need to torture down the line with slavery and naziism!"
I had no idea there were only 4 countries left in the UN. When did that happen?
Shocker! The country that can't even agree to give children free lunches in schools voted that food isn't a human right? I'm more and more shameful of my country by the second.
If we just give the children food, what incentive will they have to work in the mines?
This is why no country should have veto power. The USA and Israel have held back the UN from fulfilling its promise for...ever, really. China, Russia, and other have pitched in to fuck up good things from time to time but it's usually the big two war god worshipping nations.
When a religion is based on worshipping a god of war, don't be surprised when they're violent; physically, mentally, verbally, politically...
Edit: as pointed out in a reply: Israel has no veto power.
From my research.
This wasn't a UN vote. It was a committee vote on whether to bring it to the assembly or not. Obviously if the US is against it then there's no reason to have a vote.
Also it wasn't really making food a right for your citizens, it was about using starvation as a war tactic.
Israel has no veto power, thank god
Thank you for the correction. Shame on me for being too lazy to look it up.
Its always those two for any attempt to improve human rights rules
Oh come on now. Russia and China are usually in there as well
Suspicious username, but you are actually right.
„Why is it always you four…?“
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I mean it's pretty clear at this point that the tail is wagging the dog when it comes to the US and Israel and Israel doesn't want any impediments to their final solution.
That's not really harsh. I knew thus shit since the day I was 5 and watched Israel kill children on TV in 2002/2003
And look how you turned out
Yeah, sadly, none of this is new.
AKA Israel and Israel-lite
AmerIsrael®
The plot twist here is that Israel is actually US-lite. Israel is commiting its genocide in an effort to steal native land, the US completed its genocidal land acquisition long ago.
And boy did it pay out.
Violence usually does, for the people commiting the violence. 😥
It's always those two. But hey, don't you ever dare saying so because you'll always find someone who goes either "But not all americans!!!!" Or "OMG! Antisemitism!!!!!".
Don't really care about the downvotes but actually yes BY DEFINITION not all Americans.
Just be honest about being a hateful pos instead of pretending it's somehow just
Glad to not see the usual excuses here when this is mentioned saying nonsense about "trying to force us to pay".
should have declared it anyway
USA has a veto 😁
This was a vote in the General Assembly, where no country has a veto. It's one of the only institutions in the world where one can gauge global sentiments instead of what "the international community" has decided. The veto is in the security council, where the powerful countries that make up "the international community" rule over everyone else.
Look, you can't make profitable things a "right", that just leads to lower profits becsuse pesky regulations around what people "have a right to".
/s
There are probably some countries that vote for the proposition to look good, knowing the USA will veto.
Oh well that's alright then, innit?
No, it saddens me too, what made you believe otherwise?
There's no veto in the General Assembly.
So you could think that the vote does not really matter, nor does it have binding force?
I mean, the joke of this is in how the UN tried to declare this while so many of it's members were actively using starvation as a weapon against dissidents at home and abroad.
The Saudis have been trying to starve Yemen into submission for decades, ffs. Same with Ethiopia, using starvation against the Tigrea region. Honduras, the Philippines, Pakistan, Haiti, Egypt, Russia.
The resolution was actually adopted https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3951462
That's fine. We're still using starvation as a weapon, globally.
Well, yeah. It was basically a symbolic vote.
Hey UN:
It's just a place to host discussion, really.
