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Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum (www.amnesty.org)

submitted 9 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

I'd rather the assholes of the world think they're accomplishing something by writing bullshit resolutions rather than dropping bombs.

We just have to not take the UN seriously while still having the authoritarian assholes think the UN is serious business.

The Security Council is the only thing that ever really mattered anyway. Having the nuclear powers have to sit in a room together is important. The General Assembly has always been a clown show.

We have a bunch of alliances between democracies (NATO and other alliances) and the security council because we have to negotiate with the authoritarians with nukes. The minor despots can have the UN General Assembly to clown around in. Better to have petty narcissistic dictators throw their tantrums in the UN GA rather than expressing their feelings with their military.