Based USA and Israel…
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.
Yea, and the US “vote” is actually a veto. The US needs to lose its UN veto power because of shit like this.
No single country should have veto power in the first place.
The problem with this is that it’s either veto through vote or veto through force. The US can easily flip the table and walk out to try to enforce whatever it wants but that’s obviously bad for world peace so this is its ineffective but less destructive compromise.
To steel man their argument, dont agriculture companies like Monsanto develop resistance and things that get around real problems?
If they cant patent their seed then how would those solutions come into being. Surely life saving pharmaceuticals could be classified the same, or shelter, yet we still allow private ownership of those things.
The solutions should come into being by governments funding the research instead of funding wars.
Same goes for pharmaceuticals (which the US does contribute a lot of money to)
Ah of course. Everything should be communist.
I wish there was a label on peoples comments.
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. To be clear, I don’t think the no votes were justified. I just don’t like low effort outrage bait.
https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/03/24/u-s-explanation-of-vote-on-the-right-to-food/
The explanation given in this link is complete hogwash.
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.
I wouldn’t get to bent out of shape over a substack post
There’s nothing mild about the fury this inspires in me.
I’m starting to think that Israel is where most of the evil in the world comes from.
For some reason its always them somehow involved
Ragebait. This happened five years ago, as stated in the article. Why is this being brought up again?
Today, I will remind them.
Because nothing has changed since then, except for the worse.
How to locate evil forces: start asking questions about human rights. Noted.
Shithole countries
Personally, I don’t believe anyone has human rights. It is the wolves right to hunt the gazelle for food, and it’s the gazelle’s right to evade him. Although I am not against uplifting poorer countries, I feel like they would just become more wolves if they got their shit together.
This message brought to you by someone whom almost certainly would shit themselves and die if they ever encountered a wolf IRL.
People are not predators and prey. A species that hunts its own kind is monstrous. Lions don’t eat other lions. Neither wolves, or tigers or any other mammal predators hunt and eat their own. To sort people into predators and prey is flawed on a fundamental Epstein-style level. Such people exist, and the vast majority of humans consider them abominations. As they should.
I am shocked. Shocked!
Well not that shocked.
If the idiots can’t see the trend yet, will they ever?
To the idiots, the trend is that the US and Israel are the only great countries on earth.
“Best country with best president thats why we need to get him to run a third term”
Saw that yesterday. Holy f…
