This knob is aaalll up in the replies corn cobbing, quite entertaining

https://hexbear.net/comment/3679644

Shoutout to @afellowkid@lemmygrad.ml for their excellent effortpost response. Always good to remember in situations like this, going to the effort to actually refute and answer and educate is important not to fix the dweeb they are responding to, but so that anyone else who comes to see the interaction can see the stark difference between bullshit and the slightest research

rat-salute

  • Lerios [hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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    stop being a bad person biden-point

    god these people genuinely think they’re the protaganist of a YA novel don’t they. fucking christ

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    I think what bothered me the most about him (even more than the genocide apologia), was the absolutely unshakeable smug American exceptionalism. He was certain that the world couldn’t do anything without the US, and we should all just be grateful for what we have.

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      I was kind of surprised by that as well. I was being charitable, as China is the biggest in terms of dollar amounts, but they only contribute $20 per capita or so. Norway is almost $1000 and I thought that should be recognised. I was shocked when he came back with wanting to compare totals. I of course sent him the same link again with China written instead.

      The guy was absolutely unreachable, but I just tried to present him with actual facts as simply as possible, as they are easy for observers to verify. I’m grateful to the others who explained the geopolitical realities for the people who wanted more though.

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    Yeah “Humans Rights” is a ridiculous framing of any issue

    America would have to pay for more food and we already give the world enough aid

    I hope they personally starve to death.

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    Isn’t “virtue signaling” a term fascists use? I think this might be a fascist, not a liberal, although both suck.

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      Virtue signalling can be a valid non-reactionary critique at times (for examplr the :liberalism: emoji). But yeah conservatives tend to use it more often. Since they are morally bankrupt sadists even surface-level positive changes piss them off.

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        This may be the ultimate example of Virtue Signaling™ Ive ever seen. Insead of doing their jobs as legislators and creating legislation to fight injustice, without even pretending to try, they don parody level racist “african culture” scarfs, and then to ‘honor’ George Floyd they reenact the way in which he was murdered for a fucking photo op.

        added bonus, half of them then struggle badly to get back to their feet after kneeling, a great dog and pony gerontocracy show

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    A comrade already pointed this out in another post, but it seems like most liberals are unable to grasp the fact that the US isn’t a villain in a back room twirling its mustache while trying to inflict as much harm as possible on the world for the sake of causing harm. It’s a profit-driven death cult that will write off each atrocity and sociopathic intention as a business expense.

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    The deepest criticism you could levy at this mentality is that it’s the U.S. that is by far most responsible for making a mockery of international law.

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      short: yes but actually no

      Long: this one (2002 resolution) was performative and entirely reiterates other resolutions and decisions from other bodies. Other resolutions though are enforced through aid organizations (aid only goes to those who “play nice”) and sanctions. Ofc any sanction proposed against the security council can be assumed to be vetoed, so in a microcosm the rich/powerful states play by different rules than the rest.