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[–] 97 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Imagine spending decades building up a supranational institution to buttress your position as global hegemon and then throwing it all away for your genocidal pet project.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The genocidal pet project is 80 years old.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And It was working so well for them, they just needed to wait and take their time. Now they've decided they can't wait, and managed to attract unwanted attention.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do it. The US threw away its hosting

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Isn't it next month? Would be a monumental effort to change safely and effectively at this point. I'm not saying it can't or shouldn't be done, but it's not very practical.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just move the whole organization away from the US. Out of our territory. And if possible remove our veto.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    It's a wild indication of how far things have fallen apart that for so many decades, "the US isn't going to do any crazy fuckery and it's safe to host this vital transnational infrastructure there" was working fine.

    Also, completely agree. IDK where the UN should be hosted going forward, but it sure as shit should not be the US.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Move UN somwere else, US is sponsor of Terror, can't be a home for UN. Make USA irrelevant!

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Please also get rid of the Security Council Veto.

    Better yet get rid of the Security Council all together and do everything in the General Assembly. With the 2 thirds majority requirement for passing items.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    UN votes are largely symbolic, they have no actual policy function in almost all cases - member states must create and ratify separate treaties for that.

    Removing the veto just leads to the veto-holders even more flagrantly undermining the UN's authority.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Good. This was my initial reaction. “Move the meeting somewhere that Trump doesn’t have the authority to block people from attending.”

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, i would encourage all international communities to boycott the US entirely until Pedo don is in prison and the nazi's aren't in charge any longer.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    As if this would change anything . That's not the answer. The answer is to keep deviating from the usa policies. Remove all the stupid conditions for a two state solution, stop saying a future palestinian state need to be demiliterized, stop saying israel has the right to defend itself. Impose cuba style sanctions of israel. Countries should stop lying about them stopping selling weapons to israel

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