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UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

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Re: UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

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Post by fsflover »

browningstreet wrote: post #9

This sounds exactly like “work” today. Certainly matches my experience in big tech. It reminds me, tangentially, of something I did a while ago. I scraped hundreds of environment non-profits and NGO websites from around the world. Many of them are UN affiliated to some degree. I tried to find 3 things: 1) what the non-profit does, 2) what the non-profit produces, 3) what the non-profit accomplished. My ability to gle…

> I scraped hundreds of environment non-profits and NGO websites

Or you could visit https://charitynavigator.org instead.

Re: UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

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Post by lesuorac »

philipallstar wrote: post #135
mschuster91 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> And if there is one cornerstone of modern Republican politics, it is: the suffering is the point This sort of deliberate mischaracterisation has no value in discussion. Republicans have definitely ridden high on stopping the suffering - perceived or otherwise - caused by objective, Democrat-led encouraging of illegal immigration across the southern border of the US. And even they wouldn't be as bad faith as you and…

The top deportations per year is Obama [1].

The idea that Democrats want a freely open southern border is just as false as Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility.

[1]: https://www.cato.org/blog/deportation-rates-historical-persp...

Re: UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

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Post by nashashmi »

willguest wrote: post #119
nashashmi wrote: post #97

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Isn’t this why democracy fails? It is exhausting. It is work designed for a paid shill. It is a burden placed on the governed by the government to distance everyone from participating. It is the shade preceding the darkness that democracy dies in.

I see it as a preoccupation with the act of voting, in place of actual decision making. Incompetence disguised by paperwork is common feature, especially when the problem feel intractable but there is pressure to "get results". Rules, protocol and regs are obviously necessary to some extent, but it feels like (in Europe, at least) the map has been confused with the terrain. Overly burdensome protocols are fuel for in…

The illusion of power coming from voting that stops the reform. But more importantly, the transparency of the process yet opaqueness of the processors both dampens activism/revolt against the system while simultaneously reducing activism/revolution within the system.

The steady hand becomes the ruler.

Re: UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

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Post by martin82 »

Given that the UN is an utterly dystopian horror organisation that should be dismantled before it drives humanity into a dead-end with no return, and given that our "journalistic" institutions no longer practice journalism, but merely amplify propaganda, it would actually be better if the general public would scrutinise those reports more closely.

Re: UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

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Post by philipallstar »

lesuorac wrote: post #143
philipallstar wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And if there is one cornerstone of modern Republican politics, it is: the suffering is the point This sort of deliberate mischaracterisation has no value in discussion. Republicans have definitely ridden high on stopping the suffering - perceived or otherwise - caused by objective, Democrat-led encouraging of illegal immigration across the southern border of the US. And even they wouldn't be as bad faith as you and…

The top deportations per year is Obama [1]. The idea that Democrats want a freely open southern border is just as false as Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility. [1]: https://www.cato.org/blog/deportation-rates-historical-persp...

They changed. Most "Trump is a Nazi" policies are 2008 Obama policies, but that's indicative of how far to the left the Democrats have shot in the last 10 years. That's why people voted for Trump even though they didn't like him. He was still the lesser of two crazies.

Re: UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

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Post by immibis »

philipallstar wrote: post #135
mschuster91 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> And if there is one cornerstone of modern Republican politics, it is: the suffering is the point This sort of deliberate mischaracterisation has no value in discussion. Republicans have definitely ridden high on stopping the suffering - perceived or otherwise - caused by objective, Democrat-led encouraging of illegal immigration across the southern border of the US. And even they wouldn't be as bad faith as you and…

I don't see how it's a mischaracterization. Everything I read about the party points in the same direction.

Re: UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

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Post by deepsun »

p_ing wrote: post #84
deepsun wrote: post #81

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> UN is designed to be a place to talk about problems Uhm, my understanding is that the main UN purpose is to prevent WW3. It was thansformed from the League of Nations that was created after The World War, but obviously failed on its mission with the WW2.

Preventing WW3 usually starts by airing grievances so the collective body can talk about said problems and come to a peaceful, diplomatic solution.

I don't think that works anymore, UN can only issue "deep concerns" (c).

The real prevention starts when the collective body deploys troops (or authorize the deployment). The last such real deployment, authorized by UN, was for Iraq (Saddam Hussein), who really could start the WW3. But you know how it's portrayed now by authoritarians, so I doubt we will see any real action from UN anymore until the WW3 happens.

Re: UN report finds UN reports are not widely read

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Post by browningstreet »

fsflover wrote: post #141
browningstreet wrote: post #9

This sounds exactly like “work” today. Certainly matches my experience in big tech. It reminds me, tangentially, of something I did a while ago. I scraped hundreds of environment non-profits and NGO websites from around the world. Many of them are UN affiliated to some degree. I tried to find 3 things: 1) what the non-profit does, 2) what the non-profit produces, 3) what the non-profit accomplished. My ability to gle…

> I scraped hundreds of environment non-profits and NGO websites Or you could visit https://charitynavigator.org instead.

Zero results:

https://www.charitynavigator.org/search?q=350.org

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