@p @NonPlayableClown @mischievoustomato @Hyperhidrosis @cvnt there are well-to-do, posh schools all over the world, proximity to one of these schools is not weird tbh. anything in "new york" is close to a lot of stuff. i dont like new york as a city because i just dont care for megacities, they are extractive and elitist and places where the worse forms of collusion tend to happen so.... yeah the UN so called "headquarters" are in a bad spot, agree, i guess? a lot of stuff is and we need better decentralized avenues for participation.
>sexual rights, LGBTI issues, women human rights defenders, religious fundamentalisms, clampdowns on civil society, and HIV & AIDS
with the exception of 'fundamentalisms', and 'clampdowns on civil society' which i think u might mean 'freedoms', and 'less overdevelopment and ecological overshoot' which is a genuine, large difficult systems-based issue, those things are not bad. the un does stuff peacefully and with care giving opportunities for engagement at every step of a really long period of time, and i've found it to be well-grounded in evidence based research. i would say they need to formally adopt tor and i2p, the :butterfedyC: fediverse and xmpp today to continue that trend as internet protocol and email is no longer fit for purpose for engagement, and controlled by the corporates. that would be a big complaint of the UN i have. technological sovereignty is needed.
> (your stated creation the UN)
dubious ppl may often do occasional philanthropy to get cred, yea, this is a thing, an issue....its important ppl dont fall to their knees the moment someone says they are part of some philanthropic thing, agree!!!
> (my cut off summary of fascism consistent with dictionary, 'ur fascism' and other definitions)
pls dont cut up my words to strawman me
im "done here" when we reach some sort of understanding, i think we almost there