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That's my position. I don't want to give the UN money (look how dysfunctional and corrupt the WHO is), but I do want military spending to go down. Why make it m
by csee 5y ago
That's my position. I don't want to give the UN money (look how dysfunctional and corrupt the WHO is), but I do want military spending to go down. Why make it more politically difficult than it needs to be. What's the benefit of coupling reductions in military spending with giving more money to the UN... These are totally unrelated things and coupling them needlessly achieves nothing.
- yhoneycomb 5y agoIn what way is the WHO “dysfunctional and corrupt”? Everyone I know with ideas like that seems to have a very questionable world view.
- HideousKojima 5y agohttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world-health-organization-employees-took-part-congo-sex-abuse-during-n1280315 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world-health-organization... Child sex abuse, for starters
- arcticbull 5y agoThat's like throwing away Congress because Matt Gaetz exists. There may or may not be good reasons to abolish Congress, but Matt Gaetz alone ain't it.
- csee 5y agoMatt Gaetz is a single person. The linked article shows that this was an institutional problem at the WHO involving corrupt management. So the analogy is flawed. Also the sex abuse isn't the only thing wrong with the WHO.
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- golemotron 5y agoYes. If they are to be decoupled, I'd rather give the peace dividend to Elon Musk.
- arcticbull 5y ago> look how dysfunctional and corrupt the WHO is [citation needed] - but like, an actual one. I know this is a popular conspiracy theory at the moment.
- csee 5y agoOne was provided already by another poster. I don't even need to give more because that should be sufficient. But if you want to dig further, you should look at the timeline of the WHO's actions and see how slow they were to recommend masks, recommend border closures, and declare a pandemic, then ask yourself if they helped or hurt our efforts to contain COVID throughout 2020. No citation is needed for that, it's all in the public domain - their press conferences and their Twitter.
- valtism 5y agoI don't think any of what you are saying here amounts to any sort of corruption.
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- csee 5y agoRead the article. The management of WHO covered up sexual abuse, up until an investigative journalist blew it open. Yes, they are a deeply corrupt organization.
- arcticbull 5y agoThat's not corruption as it pertains to their objectives though. That's a crime, one that should be punished, obviously. It doesn't have anything to do with the primary objectives of the WHO, especially not as it pertains to for instance COVID. Corruption would be, hypothetically, taking payoffs or bribes to avoid doing their jobs. You have not, and nor has anyone else here, offered evidence of corruption.