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Ah yes the "enlightened" democracies (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Either the map is wrong, or the header is wrong, because that is not Germany.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Equal shame for all the countries that abstained. There is not a damn chance any country is genuinely unsure how they want to vote so an abstain vote in this case is just "I want to vote against but am too embarrassed to."

Which happens to be the entire West, not a single country commonly considered "Western" voted in favour. Surprise surprise

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Tell me about it. NZ has the most right-wing neo-liberal pro-American-politicking cabinet we've had in a long long time. (The PM is also so incompetent he's polling the lowest approval we've had for a long time, possibly ever). They got in power off the backs of post-Covid economic hardship, despite having no proposed solutions other than funding landlords and cutting environmental policy.

If it had been put to the citizens, I believe we would've been for it. But the current cabinet doesn't want to piss off American partners no doubt, hoping abstaining let's them sit on the fence a little longer while pretending we're ultimately n9t the bad guy. That will be the reason for most of those abstaining.

I'm disgusted.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Description mentions Germany but it's not highlighted like the others?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The map seems to be rage bait. Israel is green, the UK and Germany are yellow, and Ukraine went red.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The image contains the date "November 15, 2018", which doesn't match up with anything in the UN Digital Library about that resolution. But if I assume it is the 2018 vote, we should look at A/RES/73/157 voting data, which does seem to line up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The same name resolution came up for another vote on December 16, 2021. It seems like the vote went more or less the same way.

Here is the report of 3rd Committee.

The copy of resolution.

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