The United Nations just voted 145-7 in favor of a resolution condemning illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine & Syria.
wow it's actually not the exact same map
this seems like a modicum of progress
The idea of a consolidated imperial core is in itself flawed and the idea itself is not applicable to all situations. Though definitely a useful point of view sometimes, using it unconditionally will only deny nuance and differences between core countries, which is not always helpful.
EDIT: Guessing this will probably get downvoted and/or ignored, but if anyone is actually willing to provide or cite some justification/explanation of the map in question, that would be great. Linking the Wikipedia article, whose map differs and has the reasoning of core countries as
They are usually recognized as wealthy states with a wide variety of resources and are in a favorable location compared to other states.
containing several points, which in total are inconsistent by leading to a false dichotomy, is not what I ask and not what I think a map of imperial core states should use for classification.
My reasoning for calling a consolidated core flawed is among other things because it is not taking into consideration the historic development and relationships between core states. Some classify, for example, Scotland as a semi-core due to these reasons.
https://lemmygrad.ml/c/alwaysthesamemap
lots of examples of what this map emoji means here
I particularly like this one of the countries that recognize Palestine, which is the inverse of the 'same map'.
https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/f8d50ef2-6638-43e2-86e6-d1ece0d35add.png
Guessing this will probably get downvoted
We don't have downvotes
Imagine being in such blatant violation of international law and human decency that China, Japan, and both Good and Capitalist Running Dog Korea can agree that you suck.
It's pretty hilarious that any person would call the totalitarian, chronic food shortage stricken, ostracized North Korea "the Good Korea"
chronic food shortage stricken, ostracized
i wonder why a country under economic sanction from the US & its allies for decades might have economic trouble. i wonder why they're rude to the US after the US bombed and murdered their people for 3 years & still occupy the southern half of their country
It's only hilarious if you're highly propagandised and have never examined any of the absolutely ridiculous propaganda that has led you to feel the way you do about them such as:
Using anti aircraft guns for executions ("according to south korean media" lmao)
They all have to get the same haircut
Or that they're aggressive or something? Like what? How many wars has Korea been in since the US killed 1 fifth of its entire population in the biggest post-holocaust genocide the world has ever seen?
The shit you believe is ridiculous, why do you believe this shit? Why have you never actually said "that sounds fucking stupid"? You don't examine anything critically at all. You just go with the flow because you've seen everyone else be hyper negative about it and never really actually stopped and thought about any of these utterly ridiculous things.
In the meantime, the US is responsible for starting 205 out of 248 conflicts between ww2 and 2010. And yet the DPRK is supposedly a bad rogue state? You're out of your mind, you do not apply the same principles to one of these countries vs the other, you are guided by FEELS based on whatever propaganda has successfully taken hold in the population. You aren't really guided by facts or real accessible information we have via the worldbank data and the UN.
It's pretty hilarious that you're so smug and up your own ass you pretend to not understand that other political ideologies exist that may differ from your own. So full of yourself and your own self aggrandizement that you can't type a sentence without presenting it in such a way as though the other person is so stupid for not seeing things your way. Take your smarmy ass back to reddit. No one likes nor wants you around on their forums
You live in the largest, most expensive propaganda machine that's ever been created by man
You're talking about a country and an ideology that propaganda machine has been willing to burn the world with nuclear hellfire to contain for a hundred years
Learn about the things you're talking about. "The forgotten war"
Yes. North Korea is and has always been the good guys.
Uncritical support to the DPRK in its heroic struggle to rid occupied Korea of the genocidal US Empire. Uncritical support to the Juche ideology and its implementation.
Sorry, my bad.
"Best Korea" it is.
chronic food shortage stricken, ostracized North Korea "the Good Korea"
Yeah, nobody can be morally good if they're poor and ostracized. Certainly not some guy who started a religion that underpins much of Western morality to this day.
hey look, they believe western propoganda
90% of Gazans experience severe food insecurity whereas 30% of israelis are obese. Whos the "good" country? the fat asses or the ones starving them?
Uh oh folks we got ourselves a propaganda consumer!
Wild to me how many replies you're getting that defend North Korea. A failed state that has a starving population with no freedoms and is completely ostracised from most of the world. By choice.
Is racism against Koreans allowed in Lemmy?
What's our problem, Canada?
Don't want to piss off the downstairs neighbours.
The yapping dog of American Empire.
We're just America's hat, what do you expect
What is Hungary doing, compensating for its stance on Ukraine ?
Being the thorn in everyone's eye so everyone keeps paying us
Viktor gets the slush funds from Russia and the spyware from Israel it makes sense for him
Owning the EU libs, as Hungary do.
The settlements have always been recognized as illegal, but I guess its good to reaffirm it.
Its a war crime to move a civilian population into a military occupied region. This crime has been ongoing for decades.
You know it's bad when even Germany is getting wise to the game
Yet Canada isn't
To be fair, they had a Nazi in their parliament much more recently than the Germans had
Jesus fucking Christ even a majority of the anglosphere is opposing Isntrael
Times are a'changing
Fuck, Canada you keep embarrassing me recently.
Canada's been an embarrassment its entire history, so nothing new.
Dude fr idk what our government's foreign policy goals even are.
We have some populists roping in the hillbillies right now. It's amazing how well they're weaponizing stupid and pushing our PM around.
lmao even slava ukrani voted for it.
Woohoo ... Yeah ... Canada vo ... ???... What the hell!
Apartheid regimes stick together. Canada did to First Nations what Israel aims to do to Palestinians.
Surprising Australia voted in favour this time
I'm not sure this has any practical application. 6 years ago it passed 155-7.
Citing it helps people understand the historical context when learning about what's actually going on there
I guess so, and provides truth in contrast to exclusively hearing a narrative.
Okay, now what are they going to do about it?
The U.S spends more on military than the next 7 countries combined. It'd put up a good fight. Probably conquer Canada/Mexico in hours (I'd assume they would just concede the same way Paris/France conceded to the Nazis in WW2), and then we'd also have the advantage in Eurasia. We could nuke most of western Europe, and the only country that could really stop us is Russia because they also have a comparable number of nukes. If we successfully disarm them and are the sole nuclear super power in the world, I could see the U.S winning ww3 and becoming a global government.
We
USians stop identifying with those who rule over you Challenge Rating: um ackshully
If we successfully disarm them and are the sole nuclear super power in the world,
Sounds super easy
We need a
but with like a helmet on for people like thisThe pentagon pays $5000 on a simple trash can. Paying more money is not a good thing. A f35 costs like $75 million dollars to build and they spend almost half their existence unable to fly.
USA's military budget is 90% graft.
Lol
Comment written with one hand under the table.
The next seven countries combined (the next eleven, in fact) are all in green in the above map. #12 is Canada, and every other country is either supporting this resolution or abstaining. The US could well win a third world war but it wouldn't happen the way you say. Nukes won't be used in conflicts by nation-states, only (and hopefully not) by rogue groups that get their hands on one. Nukes are a deterrent nowadays rather than a weapon.
Wait the UK voted in favour? Literally just yesterday they were whining about Pro Palestinian marches in London. Then a bunch of right wing fuck nuggets turned up to fight to the pro Palestinian marches, except they turned up in the wrong place and ended up fighting the police instead.
I guess they realise their position is untenable on that point. The general public hate them and they know it.
They are not condemning Israel for the current assault on Gaza. They are condemning Israel for the settlements (which is a blatant war crime that has long been criticized by every country except Israel and the US iirc.
They are condemning Israel for the settlements
The illegal settlements that are one of the contributing factors that led to Hamas growing in support.
It's becoming impossible to spin this as anything other than a genocide that the west is facilitating at this point.
@yogthos
Of course Canada voted against it....good lapdog;)
Ukraine is supporting Palestine??
weirdly they voted for the ceasefire, maybe cause Zelensky got snubbed by Israel for a visit
End war there and get support back to Ukraine.
Just guessing
Well israel has been distracting sugardaddy biden and Zelensky wants all the missles to himself.
@yogthos [looking at Canada all upset]
Canada behind the scenes is 10x more fascist than America could ever hope to be.
I mean didn't they do this already years ago, and nothing changed? The UN is a spineless, useless organisation. According to wiki, it condemned Israel 45 times since 2013.
Apparently condemning Israeli settlements that has been happening for years is more important than condemning the killing of the innocent Palestinians that's happening right now
As a Canadian, I'm incredibly disappointed in my government for supporting this genocide and settling of stolen land. We're on the wrong side of history with this.
Guess they're concerned they'd have to look inward a little?
Thing is, Canada has been looking inward. That's what makes it worse.
They can shut the fuck up about "truth and reconciliation" while simultaneously supporting a modern day indigenous genocide on top of continuing on their own indigenous genocide in secret. I knew they were full of shit after they made the Queen's day of death a holiday.
It's so absolutely insane how Canada is happy to tout reconciliation with First Nations people and simultaneously support the genocide of an indigenous people.
Disappointed, sure, but I don't think you should be surprised.
Canada was founded as a country specifically for the purpose of genocide. Virtually the entire country is on settled and stolen land. It would be hypocritical to be against someone else doing the same.
You could say the same about Australia and various Latin America countries, yet they still condemn Israel action.
!landback@slrpnk.net
Canada was founded more than 150 years ago. I'm surprised that in that intervening period, nothing has changed.
Generally speaking if Germany votes in favour of this kind of resolution and you against, you done fucked up.
Yeah, why the fuck are we red?!?
Because Canada itself is an apartheid regime, and doesn't want to set a "wrong" precedent.