• mabeledo@lemmy.world
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    Lmao the fucking irony:

    The US, which voted against the resolution, slammed the text as an ideological exercise that it said undermined the UN’s credibility.

    “This initiative is presented as an anodyne effort to update cartographic proportions,” said Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the UN. “The United States clearly sees it cannot be separated from the much larger and more radical ideological project it belongs to.”

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      the wokes like it, so it is per definition bad

      some times I feel like informing these people that woke people really enjoy breathing air and drinking water :l

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      Not even Israel voted with the US this time. Take this opportunity for reflection.

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        It’s because they don’t want the world to see it getting bigger as it starts annexing its neighbors’ land.

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          The new map projection makes land close to equator bigger and land closer to the north and south poles smaller.

          Anyone who is not living under a rock knows what is happening and those who still approve genocide don’t give damn they are getting bigger.

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        The title:

        Today, the United Nations voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes

        Haters, probably:

        let’s still make this about us hating Israel - in comparison to how we hate the US

        GJ for the UN. I hope it’ll make good progress in the long run for all of us. More accurate representation of the world - for more adequate and fair decisions and actions.

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          It’s a common pattern for the General Assembly that essentially all of the world votes together, and then the United States, Israel plus some tiny island nations votes together. This vote struck me as deviating from that pattern because the United States literally stands alone on this issue. Even the number of Abstentions is unusually low.

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      Wow, the US government is so paranoid, because how the fuck in your right mind can you find a reason to think “everyone’s out to get me” because others want to edit a map? It’s also funny how they never specify what this “radical ideology” is, despite constantly complaining about it like a child would about their mother not getting them an ice cream.

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      I can’t make heads or tails of what point this word salad is actually intending to convey. It sounds like a toddler trying to argue because hes afraid try a new food on his plate.

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        Sometimes people with really stupid beliefs will dance around saying it clearly because on some level they know how stupid it sounds.