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The Russian Federation being granted the former USSR’s permanent seat was conditional: the Russian Federation was required and expected to uphold the responsibilites that the USSR had, as well as the USSRs treaties and agreements. Failure to uphold those commitments would mean the Russian Federation was in breach of their agreement with the UN and should lose the seat formerly granted to the USSR.

Sure. But the mechanism by which the UN functions is such that the Security Council has extensive veto power over most actual policy set by the UN. Consequently, any effort to challenge Russia on its failed obligations or to penalize or remove them would be subject to… Russian veto of the action from the Security Council.

That’s because the UN doesn’t exist to set policy against its primary member states. The UN exists to allow member states a neutral(ish) space to negotiate international policy amongst themselves and to organize against non-members and non-state-actors. Even if you could kick a $1T/year economy and largest sovereign landmass on the planet out of the body… who would benefit? Its not like removing Russia from the UN makes the country not-a-state. It’s not like the BRICS wouldn’t continue to coordinate amongst themselves independent of the UN. All you’ve done is cut the cord to the Little Red Phone that helps a future Russian President and a future American President from hashing it out before they launch nukes at one another.

The USSR, interestingly enough, had signed many treaties recognizing the borders of its successor states before it was dissolved, one of which being Georgia. Thus the actions of the Russian Federation in Georgia in 2008 violated one of these USSR agreements they are required to uphold. This was a direct violation and one that is technically grounds for removal of the UN, at least removal from a permanent seat.

You can single out the USSR on this technicality and hold Russia to it. But then you could single out the US for its extensive violation of the Geneva Convensions or its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords or any number of other historical treaties and associated promises.

You could single out the US for the Hague Invasion Act if nothing else. But we won’t, for the same reason nobody’s seriously interested in ousting Russia (or China or the UK or France for that matter).

This isn’t the G7 (formerly G8) where “We’re embargoing you, why are you even here?” would be the response to any Russian delegation. This is the body that exists to negotiate member states out of nuclear war. If anything, the Security Council should have significantly more members, given how nuclear weapons have proliferated over the last 70 years.

Maybe getting Pakistan and India on the panel could avoid the last great Pyrrhic Victory of human civilization.

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There’s an entire pseudoscience of “Who is allowed to date whom” that - predictably - revolves around a host of racist stereotypes and eugenics theories.

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Women are throwing their sexuality away on the undeserving, when they should be lining up to receive an objective categorization of physical appearance and personality, then assigned to a terminally online techbro in the darker corners of the Reddit comments feed.

Not quite

You can get from 207th Street in Manhattan to Far Rockaway in Queens (31 miles) for $2.90. And there’s no traffic.

Greatest city in the world.

One Thrust Man

Yeah, I’ve got Havana Syndrome. Been Havana Good Time all month.

And the greatest of the three was

checks notes

damn, says here its the Anime Adaption. Rock on, Danny Devito.

He did not support abolition until well into the civil war look it up.

He opposed the spread of slavery into Free States and made it a central message of both his Senate and Presidential bids.

Lincoln did not even want emancipation

Lincoln campaigned at the head of an abolitionist party on the platform of halting slavery expansion in the territories and gradually phasing it out nationwide.

After the civil war broke out, he saw rapid emancipation as a means of collapsing Confederate resistance. And in the immediate aftermath of the war, he was a full throated supporter of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.

What you’re saying is categorically untrue.

Emancipation. Pretty revolutionary

anytime the new deal is brought up

The Pre-Nixon Era was defined by more than just the New Deal and the Great Society.

to accelerate the decline mistakenly believing something better would replace it

Understanding history is very different from advocating for “accelerationism”

In the post-war years until the 1970s.

A famously great time to be an American, assuming you weren’t colored, Latino, LGBTQ, or a woman.

In 1972 the business Round Table made a long game and it has since been refined.

American corporate collaboration didn’t begin in 1972. You can trace it back to the antebellum era and the birth of American industrialization.

The New Deal was a historical aberration that came through the rapid economic attrition of the Great Depression. Prior to the Depression of '32, Henry Ford, JP Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller were individually as powerful as any half dozen elected officials combined.

Wanting a restoration of the Republic is not playing Make-Believe

Clinging to the mythology of the American system is.

But within the rules of the government we have we could fix the government

That’s been disproven repeatedly and categorically going at least back to Nixon. We’ve been repeating the cycle of Conservative Breaks Rules / Liberal Sweeps It Under The Rug for 50 years, easily.

How many more generations plan to get Rope-a-Doped by toothless establishment hacks?

It is just a matter of getting good leadership to get us there and organizing behind them.

Who could you name that would qualify? Are we going to get a big name blue state prosecutor like checks notes Kamala Harris?

We should not try to see those laws ever enforced?

We should see things as they really are and stop playing make-believe. Digging in your heels and saying “You can’t do that because the First Amendment stops you!” is akin to some sovereign citizen announcing he can’t be convicted of a crime because the flag has a yellow fringe.

The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. And if you live in denial, insisting that people can’t hurt you because laws protect you, you’re going to have a very bad time when the cops come knocking at your door.

Just give up and accept it?

Not at all. You’ve got to reach out to your neighbors, join community groups, unionize your workforce, and oppose the fascist government at every opportunity. And you’ve got to do it knowing you’ll be breaking the law at some point along the line.

If you want to talk about Israeli BDS, you’ve got to talk about it like a guerrilla fighting an insurgency not like a customer choosing Pepsi over Coca-Cola.

Allowing a foreign intelligence agency to get blackmail on our politicians is in open Defiance of the reason for being of the FBI and CIA.

Not if the foreign intelligence agency is working in concert with the FBI and CIA.

by All Rights should live the rest of their lives in a work camp on the North Slope of Alaska building public housing for the inuit

I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting.