• Syldon@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    It is not antisemitic to be critical of Israel. Governments need to wake up to this fact.

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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    I honestly wonder how people that work the levers of power and support this genocide can sleep at night. Not kidding. How can they be so inhuman

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      Easy. They’re usually wealthy enough to not really care about the concerns of little people.

      They just operate on autopilot and do what everyone else is doing because maintaining the status quo maintains their dominance.

      Hard to have a conscience when people throw themselves at you just because you have money.

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    1 year ago

    On one hand, I get why resigning really makes your opinion known and gets the point across.

    On the other hand, if everyone with a conscience resigns, then what’s left? This basically just makes it certain that atrocities like this will continue.

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      I imagine a lot of people at the UN are having a “can’t fight city hall” moment right now: seeing Palestinian genocide take place, but being powerless to do anything about it, and feeling the guilt and complicity involved with the UN refusing to go against the US’s wishes.

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      Yeah. I think it makes more sense to take the republican approach and do your best to destroy the system from the inside.

      This just makes it easier to replace you with someone who is okay with the status quo.

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      The UN has never had any control over any country. It has has only ever been designated a talking shop where countries can get an understanding of each other. They may have voted a consensus on decisions, but that is by agreement not enforcement. If we had a body that could dictate morality to any country, then we would not need any country with a military.

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      Has it ever been a facade?

      Pretty sure the UN has always been seen as a limp-dick entity that only exists so nations can talk and the Security Council can do what it wants.