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      The states that voted against Israel at the UN vote are not led by youthful idealists, are they?

      No, they’re a block of authoritarian and Muslim countries, primarily. How shocking.

      The UN, it cannot be stressed enough, has a 1 country 1 vote policy, which directly benefits these theocratic and totalitarian states.

      For the record, I didn’t call you a nazi. I’m not following you around Lemmy. I have better things to do with my life.

      I never said you did. Disagreement is fine. Disagreement is where we test our biases and priors. We don’t have to agree on everything. There’s a difference between disagreement and harassment.

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          Is it your belief that Lemmy is not predominantly inhabited by Western/Anglosphere people?

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            Not the guy you’re having a pointless argument with but my experience of all is that I see a fuck ton more German/Scandinavian/indian posts than I do Anglosphere.

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              On lemmy.world? That’s fascinating to me. Would you mind sharing some community names?

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        Calling the 153 countries who voted in favour of a ceasefire, including Finland, Canada, Australia, Japan, Norway, Belgium, Sweden or Switzerland, a “block of authoritarian and Muslim countries primarily” is a bold claim. Here is the list of the 10 countries who voted against – for fun I’ve included their latest score on the Democracy Index, on a scale from 0 to 10 where 10 is the most democratic –: Austria (8,2), Czech Republic (7,9), Guatemala (4,6), Israel (7,9), Liberia (5,4), Micronesia (no data), Nauru (no data), Papua New Guinea (6,5), Paraguay (6,1), United States of America (8,2).

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          The core group against Israel, always, is the Muslim bloc and I was stoned and didn’t click your link.

          I own that. My bad dude.