- cross-posted to:
- usa@lemmy.ml
It’s absurd to think if any other country had been behaving like the Trump administration, the USA would have been the first to apply pressure for human rights abuses. Ideally someone needs to give the Americans some of the “freedom” they’ve been bombing across the world.
All depends about the admin of America and what resources the country has.
No admin cares about the human rights violations in Gaza because there is nothing to gain. It’s a sad system.
The USA does have some oil, so what they said is true: by now the USA would be bombing the USA for
moneyfreedom.
They’ve just gutted the State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. They’re continuing efforts from the previous Trump admin to redefine it based on “natural rights”. In the first post on the new State Department substack (an absurd phrase), Marco Rubio called the bureau “a platform for left-wing activists to wage vendettas against ‘anti-woke’ leaders in nations such as Poland, Hungary, and Brazil, and to transform their hatred of Israel into concrete policies such as arms embargoes,” and their new “senior advisor” is a 26-year-old Catholic theocrat who wants to completely 180-reverse the purpose of this bureau to go after foreign officials who have properly enforced their democratic laws (eg those who prosecuted Le Pen for embezzlement). They’ve successfully converted the human rights bureau into supporting rather than opposing human rights abuses in the name of supposed freedom of speech and religion. Even after this administration ends, there’s no way the US diplomatic apparatus can really go back to supporting human rights abroad the way it used to.
If this administration leaves enough of the USA standing…
Regime
I stand well corrected.
I dunno, the majority of US politicians seem to be fans of Israel’s actions in Palestine and didn’t say shit about China’s Uyghur camps.
Calling it what it is and you should too. Alligator Auschwitz.
I am so incredibly sick of all this racist shit…