basically the UN is a forum for dialogue and we need the big players to be part of it.

Allowing the five biggest arms manufacturers on the planet to decide "security" issues is no different than allowing the five biggest drug cartels in the world to decide "health" issues.

I do wonder if it would change if it was your mum or brother or some other loved one that gets killed while minding their own business

I am perfectly capable of understanding the point of view of a person who has had their entire family and/or community murdered, imprisoned or forced to flee - but having that happen to one over and over again for almost 80 years while privileged scum runs interference for the perpetrators because it's simply more convenient to swallow the well-funded propaganda... that stretches the limits of even my imagination.

Ahhh, the old post-WW2 European dilemma - to hate Jewish people just like they have since the very start of "western civilization", or to love Jewish people (for now) because they murder brown people in the middle-east.

Sooo... they endorsed one genocide right before pretending to be concerned over another?

You can't make this shit up.

This is not NSFW.

Doesn't take a lot to make a right-winger project, does it?

Users are attributing climate change to “capitalism”

Lol! It's aliens, right? Climate change is caused by aliens? Is that your angle here?

I don’t have to waste my time

I agree... you don't have to flail blindly and ignorantly because you don't have a clue what you are talking about. You can get a clue any time you feel like.

It's really simple... the people with money get to dictate how these "reforms" work - that's it. It doesn't matter if you get a Bernie Sanders into a position of power - the "vested interests" will dictate all the little loop holes in the small script that allows for "business as usual" to continue, and that's if they bother to hide it at all. It's literally how we ended up in this terrible situation.

failed because it’s not authoritarian.

I know you're responding to a tankie, but just to be clear... the US is about as authoritarian as it gets - they don't call it the Prison-Industrial Complex for nothing.

What's the matter, fascist? Not happy that the weaponry used on Palestinian children isn't "Proudly British"?

If the Palestinians received a quarter of the logistical support Ukraine has received since the start of the Russian invasion Israel would already have ceased to exist.

But, of course, they don't get that because they don't "look like us" - unlike Ukrainians.

Aliens. Me and my brother sneakily was watching it when our parents were gone, and when that chest-burster came out of that woman, I was out of there like a bat out of hell. Never told my parents, of course - had to protect our VHS privileges and all that.. It's still one of my favorite movies - the original cinematic cut, not the overly long director's cut (which seems to be the only one you can find these days.]