Discussion: Report: US To Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council

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What a day. Christ.

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US To Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council

I got nothing
nothing
The last fucking straw
That’s all I can take today

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Too bad we’re withdrawing of our own volition. We should rightly have been ejected.

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Pariah nation.

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Putin laughs…

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“is largely based on U.S. officials’ perception that the council is biased against Israel.”

No it’s not. Don’t report on this as if what they say is the truth. It’s based on their need to pander to Israel for political leverage, which requires them to turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses Israel commits against the Palestinian people on a daily basis. That and a heaping helping of anti-Muslim bigotry from the white Christian nationalist crowd that is their base.

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And the need to build walls and cage people at the border.

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American Exceptionalism currently takes the form of a dunce cap.

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The administration is pontificating about bias? Give me a damned break!

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Well, of course we are. Is it too early to start drinking?

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And “whoosh” goes the air out of one of the tires of our soft-power-mobile. Suppressing voting rights, stealing children from their parents, supporting dictators—it’ll be 20 years before we could criticize another nation for human-rights abuses without having that flung back at us. Fuck. We’d actually clawed our way back from Abu Ghraib a bit, and now look at us.

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I was just going to say I think we’re running away before they can do that.

Good god.

Well we’re a rogue fucking state now boys and girls.

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We’re already sitting at the rogue-nation table in the cafeteria. You know, the bullies who get lousy grades and are super-unpopular.

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May as well announce we’ll no longer be a party to the Geneva Conventions while we’re at it. Probably would make a lot of what Stephen Miller has on the drawing board less litigious.

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The first image that came to me reading this news was the part from the high school history book that described the Axis’s withdrawal from the League. :persevere:

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Any body here thinking this is like a nightmare that just won’t end???

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No rogue, no rogue, you are rogue!

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We already have essentially, since we support Israel’s decades-long violation of them.

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‘But…but “We’re America, bitches!” sez WH’ :smirk:

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