If the idiots can’t see the trend yet, will they ever?
The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA
Submitted 2 weeks ago by theHRguy@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/the-un-voted-to-make-food-a-human?r=1t17zr
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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
To the idiots, the trend is that the US and Israel are the only great countries on earth.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
“Best country with best president thats why we need to get him to run a third term”
Saw that yesterday. Holy f…
Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yea, and the US “vote” is actually a veto. The US needs to lose its UN veto power because of shit like this.
pfried@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
No, it’s not. This resolution was adopted with a vote of 182-2-0. digitallibrary.un.org/record/3954949?ln=en&v=pdf
vga@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Right, and the dumb part on is that nobody in the world expects this to mean squat shit. Even if it would have been unanimous.
You don’t solve world hunger with voting.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yes, but the US no vote was an automatic veto. They had to remove anything that affected the US and then get all the other UN members to vote on it just to get it to pass. Any P5 nation with veto power can pull the teeth out of a UN resolution.
A “no” vote from a P5 is always a veto. When any of the P5 vote “no” in the Council, a resolution cannot move forward. Council members can, however, resolve their differences and propose new drafts for a vote by the Council. They can also call on a vote from the wider UN membership – the 193 Member States that make up the General Assembly (GA).
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
What makes you think the second number is not a no vote?
In 2021 they published reasoning with they will vote no.
I tried to find a definite source, unfortunately there’s no immediate discoverability or reference. Gemini claims “The Standard Format: [Yes] - [No] - [Abstentions]”.
Knightfox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Honestly, the UN has been a farce for a long time because of this exact issue. If a handful of countries have veto power then the whole point of the group was moot from the beginning.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Veto power is supposed to represent nuclear power. The logic is that it is way better for a country to veto a resolution than it bombing another country because they got pissy.
I always remind people that the UN’s mission is not to solve all the world’s problems, but to stop countries from tearing each other apart and avoiding all out nuclear mutual annihilation. So far, it has succeeded.
I also hate that it has no teeth against modern issues, like genocides of non nation state peoples. But genocide didn’t even exist as a concept when it was created. The concept was coined by a Jewish legalist who scaped the holocaust.
BTW, same dude hated the guts of Zionist israel and warned that an ethnostate would lead to genocide eventually. He was 100% right.
i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
The whole point was to get people sitting at the same table to reduce risks of conflicts… Without veto power, some countries would never have joined, which is unfortunate.
NoFearFrontier@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Shithole countries
Bazell@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
How to locate evil forces: start asking questions about human rights. Noted.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I’d like a list of all UN resolutions that (almost only) the USA & Israel vetoed, pretty please.
StillAlive@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Israel doesn’t have veto powers as they’re not in the security council. They can only vote ’no’.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is like saying Jim Henson wasn’t really on the Muppet Show.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget fucking children.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Cheesus. Puts all those school shootings in a new light.
Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m starting to think that Israel is where most of the evil in the world comes from.
liuther9@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For some reason its always them somehow involved
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Israel, Russia and the USA internationally, domestically they have more competition like NK, China, Belarus, some African States and a bit of South America
Soulphite@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Oh the two war criminal nations? No shit? The two humanitarian violators? You don’t say?
thorhop@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Hail Hydra or something
thorhop@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
ExSsSsSsScelsior
dunestorm@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The USA is a shit hole country with a shit hole leader
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The US and Israel at this point are just the axis of evil to the rest of the world.
pfried@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
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.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The explanation given in this link is complete hogwash.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Bothsidesing idiocy is idiotic.
pfried@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
It’s not bothsidesing if you take a position. It’s steelmanning.
valtia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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!
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
If the vote was started again just stating that nations are generally against starvation, then I’m sure the US would vote yes.
lmao
devolution@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Israel will be responsible for a second holocaust against them. And this time no one will help.
TheGreatRapsBeat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I always thought it rather odd the country that gained its (unofficial) statehood because of a genocide of its own people have actively participated in committing one themselves. All by playing an oppressed victim.
Gathorall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A constitutional ethnostate being bigoted?!
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is what nationalism always leads to - exclusion and genocide. Even if it’s founding myth was resistance against those things.
The nation state is the greatest tool of oppression known to man.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Zios will be responsible for a nuclear holocaust for the planet first.
Zink@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
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.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Do you mean Gen X, Millennials, or Xennials when you say last to have analog?
Zink@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I’m sure my anecdote applies to people from all three, and even to some of the boomers that didn’t ingest as much lead and have kept their head on straight.
When I mentioned The Oregon Trail generation though, that’s usually an Xennial label.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am shocked. Shocked!
Well not that shocked.
MyOpinion@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Two vile countries.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
That’s not how you spell cuntries
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
A slave empire can’t function without extreme deprivation.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
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.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I know at least one of those countries is way overfed.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Overfed with low nutrition and high subsidised fructose slop
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure that the privileged are well fed around the world.
Approximately 13.5 percent of U.S. households — more than 47 million Americans, including nearly 14 million children — struggle to put food on the table. Here the measure of hunger is “food insecurity” — an ongoing uncertainty of where the next meal will come from. More than 1 in 5 U.S. children are at risk of hunger (1 in 3 among Black and Latino(a) children). To the surprise of many, most Americans (51.4 percent) will live in poverty at some point before age 65.
ReHomed@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Insert the smuggie of “Any UN vote ever”
“Insert good thing here” Everyone else: Yes US and Israel: No
God we are the worst fucking countries
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Isn’t also North Korea in the UN? Imagine North Korea does something better than the US lol.
olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The US has done things far worse than what North Korea has done. Every ten years your “democracy” bombs another country.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The US is the most murderous country to other countries in history. North Korea is trying to be the most murderous to its own citizens but it’s got a lot of work to do to catch up to Russia and China.
PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The fuck is wrong with US???
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think it would actually be easier to list what is NOT wrong with the US lol, cos that woulld make for a very short list lol
III@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Some pretty natural landmarks
Yeah, that was easy.
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Oh boy, where to start?
pavlo101@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ragebait. This happened five years ago, as stated in the article. Why is this being brought up again?
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Because nothing has changed since then, except for the worse.
metakrakalaka@lemmychan.org 2 weeks ago
Today, I will remind them.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s nothing mild about the fury this inspires in me.
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
This is FALSE! Israel and (Israel) is ONE Country!
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Of course. Evil shits want everyone to starve to death do they can steal their lands
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And when that fertilizer shortage and soybean bullshit causes farmers to have a terrible harvest, and the U.S. asks for help from the world, I hope the world will reference this vote when they tell us no.
Logical@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
US really trying its best to be the worst. Land of the expensive and unfree.
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
ok so WW3 is going to be 3 fronts now is it?? fitting if not definitely infuriating
carldiortus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Please reply - what other things are a human right?
TeddE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Access to information - Internet access should be made a human right
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
For corporations to buy politicians and stuff like that.
lemmywinksthegerbilking@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
life, privacy, information
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
Napster153@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It depends what end game they all want for us.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
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.
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yes I know it takes time, but hopefully it’s done while trump is still alive.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Our EU leaders are sell-outs and still US bootlickers despite their act.
The ghoul VDL is blaming Iran for defending themselves.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not that easy when you have an insane person with a lot of nukes.