hey fucking idiot: in war you usually don’t kill people statistically randomly.

stop crying in every thread about this topic and get your own party in line

fuck I’m extremely far into my career I wish I got this tip sooner

“foreign aid” is one tiny way that American stolen wealth makes its way out. Notably you didn’t say “military aid”

you Americans will blame anything and everything before capitalist wealth hoarding

There are plenty of fascist spaces online, don’t worry about us we’ll be fine.

It’s easy for me to say, but now is the time to stubbornly live and be present and visible and together. They want you dead, defy them.

If we want to uphold the principle of international diplomacy and the summit represents a huge bloc of the world’s population then yes he really should. If Israel is hosting an event for dozens of countries he should. He’s not just visiting his buddy Putin or Netenyahu. He’s the main diplomat of the UN.

The UN is a diplomatic organization that represents the entire world and exists to provide non-violent outlets for issues between nations. Being present at BRICS, which is rapidly adding membership and represents a counter-bloc to Western oriented alliances like NATO and the G7 (which expelled Russia in 2014.) is part of that mission.

Guterres was at the G7 summit https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/press-encounter/2023-05-21/secretary-generals-press-encounter-g7-summit

Why shouldn’t he be at a similar summit representing:

Combined, the BRICS members encompass about 30% of the world’s land surface and 45% of world population

The UN isn’t (rather: shouldn’t be) a Western organization. It’s a global organisation. His attendance there is a necessary part of his duties.

From the perspective of any nation on the receiving end of US aggression his participation at the G7 would have been seen as equally upsetting. You’re letting your bias in favor of Ukraine color your judgement.

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this also puts in perspective how dystopian all of the “this person might be the world’s first trillionaire!!!” articles are

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Capitalist threats of leaving are hilarious. Oh no the non-contributors will leave. The workers are the economy. If capital flight becomes a problem that’s only a problem within a larger capitalist framework.

Let them all leave, then we can own our own labour output.

Here’s a link showing how oligarchy forms under free market systems https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/

Have you read it?

That’s literally saying that capitalist economies concentrate wealth and lead to oligarchy. It’s not talking about “any kind of government” and in fact it’s always talking about economies: specifically free market economies only. You can combat those forces, but they’re the forces of capitalism, and capitalism is the problem.

You show a lack of knowledge and imagination. This is capitalist realism incarnate. Yes, every kind of capitalist economy moves towards oligarchy, good point?

Most of my problems aren’t caused by conflict between my nation and other nations. One world government is just another government, it can be a capitalist hellscape just like mine is today.

spoken out of ignorance, they’re broadcasting and Israel is killing the ones that are.

Just like when I was a kid using Wikipedia for research when it wasn’t acceptable, the expectation should be that you use it to understand the material and then follow it to the source material to read that or at least find a relevant quote that lets you repeat that wikipedia said in your own words with attribution.

Copying wiki, or copying the output of an LLM, are both similarly academically fraudulent. LLMs are just more likely to also be wrong.

Granted, I just see some grey area. Home: justified. Neighborhood? City? Country? Hard to say.

I think that’s a fair perspective and one I generally agree with. But I also see a compelling argument for “self defense.” Children are victims of war, maybe they need to be able to defend themselves in times of war at home.

It’s one thing to use child soldiers as cannon fodder or in wars of aggression, but maybe another when they’re defending their homes and themselves. I’m not sure