cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18629062
According to the debate, they had their reasons. But still – when one hundred and eighty six nations say one thing, and two say another, you have to wonder about the two.
Let’s vote right to exist next!
Well that was predictable
Submitted 2 months ago by octopus_ink@lemmy.ml to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Are we the baddies?
(I still can’t post images to lemmy.blahaj.zone)
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
But you can to imgur, grab the direct image URL and then embed it as such:
And to make a button:
[](on-click destination URL)In this case the image is just 0.9kB, so to save an unnecessary request to Imgur, I used data URI with base64. You can’t do this with larger images due to comment size limitations. Just imagine a normal URL in there.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Thank you. I would like to avoid getting an imagur account.
That just may mean less engagement in Lemmy from this Lemming.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The whole images database debacle with Lemmy is kind of a big deal, and I have never seen an announcement about it, but I’m on team turning it off on a small instance like blahaj.zone. It’s too much data and this instance is too small to afford that kind of server space. Plus, unless things have changed, there is basically no real server panel for controlling the image database and admins basically have to manage it manually. Which is something that is pretty daunting for some admins.
So yeah, fuck the image support, use imgur, if you’re a blahaj user.
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or use pixelfed.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Well it does mean I’m restricted to text even on c/196
Which might justify why I break the rule now.
Bosht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fucking hell this is the strongest argument I’ve seen thus far that I need to get out of the US. What the hell.
Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The only issue is to where. I think better to stay but position yourself in a situation were you can make an impact even if a small one.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
When North Korea votes for something like this, it’s almost as if it’s just meaningless bullshit.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
North Korea’s famine during the 90s was due to western sanctions after everyone they used to buy food from left their economic bloc, not because they don’t believe people should have food.
FireTower@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe they should start spending their missile program money on developing their nation’s agriculture rather than relying on food imports.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And why was North Korea being sanctioned? The dictator didn’t prefer to have his subjects starve (that’s pretty rare for pragmatic reasons, although not unheard of) but he certainly didn’t prioritize feeding them.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
And now they eat poop fruit. Starvation sanctions are such monstrous means to an end; people should not have to resort to night soil because your government has beef with theirs.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Which is actually why the US voted against it basically it was to lodge a complaint against wasting UN resources on unenforceable feel good actions that don’t actually change anything.
Everyone being pissy and suggesting this is some moral reflection against America are basically the equivalent of people calling the one guy who voted against everyone getting free unicorns a party pooper because “even if we can’t actually do it why do ya gotta go against the vibe man‽”
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I have news for you: The United States, with its trillions of dollars of economic power at its disposal, could vote for such a “feel good action” and then, on the other side of it, propose a UN resolution against North Korea for abusing it’s citizens.
Food scarcity is not a production problem. It is a political one. We can, in fact, completely secure everyone a full belly but we don’t because of $madeUpReason.
The US (and Israel) not backing the decision because it’s a “free unicorn” is absolutely absurd.
Hell the US distributes food throughout the world in the most remote places. Of all the countries that could do this by themselves is the US.
courgette@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The comparison is faulty : we are actually able to produce enough food to feed everyone on earth. The issue is the shitty economical paradigm. If this vote can lead to a change in the paradigm, then it’s free unicorns for everybody! But this probably won’t happen, sadly.
FireTower@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This Council, should be outraged that so many people are facing famine because of a manmade crisis caused by, among other things , armed conflict in these four areas. The resolution before us today rightfully acknowledges the calamity facing millions of people and importantly calls on states to support the United Nations’ emergency humanitarian appeal. However, the resolution also contains many unbalanced, inaccurate, and unwise provisions that the United States cannot support. This resolution does not articulate meaningful solutions for preventing hunger and malnutrition or avoiding its devastating consequences. This resolution distracts attention from important and relevant challenges that contribute significantly to the recurring state of regional food insecurity, including endemic conflict, and the lack of strong governing institutions. Instead, this resolution contains problematic, inappropriate language that does not belong in a resolution focused on human rights.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It all sounds like some very reasonable language, and yet no other countries raised the same objection, including not only countries we are not allied with and don’t generally seem to respect, but also countries we are allied with and do generally seem to respect.
I read it as “hey guys let’s all agree to do this thing, and then we can figure out the details” and US is the singular guy in the meeting who is like “nope, we can’t agree to do it until we’ve split every hair about exactly how it will be done.”
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It doesn’t sound reasonable. Its argument is neoliberal economics at its worst:“we don’t want countries to be able to control their own domestic food markets because we want them to be forced to take our exports”, only counched in paternalistic We Know What’s Best For You rhetoric.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Especially when those two are consistently on the wrong side of such votes.
UN resolution A/RES/75/169: Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
UN resolution A/78/L.5: Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba
I could go on, but this pattern holds across numerous issues. USA and Israel’s governments are fucking monsters.
masquenox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Birds of a feather… and all that.