whatever happened to chatrooms, simple meditation, or therapy? it’d be better if your personal drama didn’t emit as much carbon dioxide as your commute

hey it’s an American acknowledging “outside of the US” let’s look on the bright side

Not the only way… Maybe we should do something about the “invisible hand” constantly giving us the middle finger

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.

Putting these valid points aside we’re also all just taking for granted that the software would have properly identified a human under the same circumstances… This could very easily have been a much more chilling outcome

Being a run of the mill fascist (rather than those in power) is actually an incredibly submissive position, they just want strong daddies to take care of them and make the bad people go away. It takes courage to be a “snowflake liberal” by comparison

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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.

yeah and it’s not that dissimilar on consoles. 800gb call of duty games on a single disc? plus you need a connection to play most games or even get the necessary patches that make the game playable since everything comes out as trash in the 1.0 version.

I see the appeal and desire for physical media but at this point it’s a charade and more harmful for the environment to boot

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?

100 point top thread based on the second and third hand opinions of a Windows non-user really sums up the quality of this discussion lol

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.

The average human driver is tried and held accountable

May it watch over us, amen

I’m a capitalist and this thread is giving me a hard-on