Human Rights Commision

ILLYRIAN

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So Trump has pulled out of the human rights commision.

How many countries do you know that ignore human rights and give examples.
Llets see if there is a country that adhere's to human rights.
 
Pfffttttt Human Rights are so overrated anyway who needs them.
-'Murica

(Sarcasm)
 
Well the commander in tweets was the same guy who picked Scott Pruitt - the self proclaimed "leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda" as head of the EPA. 🙄
 
Im sick of hearing how bad trump is when aust is just as bad. We have cut off water to aboriginal communities, cut off welfare payments for people without iphone and internet knowledge, continue to let scams run rife as long as they only affect the poor and aboriginal.

Did you know its technically a human right to have a phone/net connection now? Nbn and iinet are cutting off thousands in rural and remote areas. I know a farmer who offed himself cos they took his landline phone line, he couldnt call his mum weekly. I know another guy with half his guts ripped out from drinking the water....

Trump dosent concern me cos whats happening in front of my eyes is far worse.

Climate change etc are an unstoppable train, all i care about now is those less fortunate. Those more fortunate do not get a lick of sympathy from me. The suffering is unreal but no one cares cos it doesnt help the economy to address human rights.
 
I believe the US has been kicked out before, and maybe Trump wanted the US to leave before we could be kicked out again. They've always had problems with human rights abuses in the USA, and they appear to be getting worse instead of better.

But just like the USA, the UN is "do as I say, not as I do." Given how ruthlessly they have come down on those exposing brutal military treatment of civilians by "peace keepers" and the sex trafficking (that includes kids) in which the UN officers, peace keepers, and bureaucrats were involved with from taking bribes to being paying customers, I can't see their HRC as anything other than symbolic at best as a commitment to a goal as unrealistic as a commission on reaching Alpha Centauri (heck, the latter is more possible to me than a truly just and humane society--and btw, I don't think humans will ever reach Alpha Centauri, we'll destroy ourselves, or at least our infrastructure, before that can ever happen).

There are a handful of small nations that MIGHT be truly just & humane, but such would only be guesses on my part. I expect that they're just closer to just and humane than most other nations (including the United States, but the USA would also have many other nations soundly beat in this regard) so that the difference between all the nations of Earth is one of degree more than kind.

While I can entertain the possibility that we might get a little better than we are now, I simply cannot believe we'll ever be close to the Star Trek ideal of society (and I've heard some likely interpretations of the dark underbelly that surely exists in the society of "shiny happy people" in the Trek-verse, and they could easily adapt a Firefly like series to it, but I digress). Relatively speaking, our world (at least places like the United States and many European nations) have been enjoying an unusually peaceful and just times...but such times are aberrations, and it should not be a surprise that it's falling apart now. The only surprise is that it lasted as long as it did (and I think Cold War fears and nuclear issues have caused people to reflect on humanity's course of action).
 
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