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 months 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 months ago
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
To the idiots, the trend is that the US and Israel are the only great countries on earth.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago
Shithole countries
Bazell@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
How to locate evil forces: start asking questions about human rights. Noted.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 months ago
I’d like a list of all UN resolutions that (almost only) the USA & Israel vetoed, pretty please.
StillAlive@piefed.world 2 months ago
Israel doesn’t have veto powers as they’re not in the security council. They can only vote ’no’.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is like saying Jim Henson wasn’t really on the Muppet Show.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 months ago
Don’t forget fucking children.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Cheesus. Puts all those school shootings in a new light.
Soulphite@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Oh the two war criminal nations? No shit? The two humanitarian violators? You don’t say?
Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m starting to think that Israel is where most of the evil in the world comes from.
liuther9@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For some reason its always them somehow involved
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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
thorhop@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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 months ago
Hail Hydra or something
thorhop@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
ExSsSsSsScelsior
dunestorm@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The USA is a shit hole country with a shit hole leader
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The US and Israel at this point are just the axis of evil to the rest of the world.
pfried@reddthat.com 2 months 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 months ago
The explanation given in this link is complete hogwash.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Bothsidesing idiocy is idiotic.
pfried@reddthat.com 2 months ago
It’s not bothsidesing if you take a position. It’s steelmanning.
valtia@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months 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
Zink@programming.dev 2 months 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 months ago
Do you mean Gen X, Millennials, or Xennials when you say last to have analog?
Zink@programming.dev 2 months 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.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Israel will be responsible for a second holocaust against them. And this time no one will help.
TheGreatRapsBeat@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
A constitutional ethnostate being bigoted?!
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
Zios will be responsible for a nuclear holocaust for the planet first.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am shocked. Shocked!
Well not that shocked.
MyOpinion@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Two vile countries.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
That’s not how you spell cuntries
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
A slave empire can’t function without extreme deprivation.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months 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 months ago
I know at least one of those countries is way overfed.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Overfed with low nutrition and high subsidised fructose slop
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 months 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
pavlo101@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ragebait. This happened five years ago, as stated in the article. Why is this being brought up again?
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Because nothing has changed since then, except for the worse.
metakrakalaka@lemmychan.org 2 months ago
Today, I will remind them.
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t also North Korea in the UN? Imagine North Korea does something better than the US lol.
olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
The fuck is wrong with US???
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
Some pretty natural landmarks
Yeah, that was easy.
MBech@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Oh boy, where to start?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s nothing mild about the fury this inspires in me.
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
This is FALSE! Israel and (Israel) is ONE Country!
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Of course. Evil shits want everyone to starve to death do they can steal their lands
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
US really trying its best to be the worst. Land of the expensive and unfree.
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
ok so WW3 is going to be 3 fronts now is it?? fitting if not definitely infuriating
carldiortus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please reply - what other things are a human right?
TeddE@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Access to information - Internet access should be made a human right
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
For corporations to buy politicians and stuff like that.
lemmywinksthegerbilking@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
life, privacy, information
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
It depends what end game they all want for us.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
Yes I know it takes time, but hopefully it’s done while trump is still alive.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
Not that easy when you have an insane person with a lot of nukes.