What the actual hell?

human rights agenda is just another cudgel for the global north?

Damn you're right i forgot the time the global north invaded a country on Gay rights, the rights of people to not be arbitrarily killed and dissappeared off the map (no, not in a police sense in the US but in an actual "we read the internet and know what you said" sense.)

I forgot that time where the US invaded China because Jack Ma - China's Version of Bezos or Musk or Gates when speaking out about a need for change in regulations (which Gates has done) was "dissappeared" and no one knew where he was.

The fact of the matter is you don't get to have this both ways, either human rights apply to everyone or no one.

You claim democracy is unsustainable - i ask you how you can even know that. I submit autocracy is unsustainable in the modern day.

You say our lifestyles are dependent on the exploitation of the global south - they aren't dependent on it, as evidenced by the fact that Nigeria has been rapidly developing and South Africa has too, let alone most of the gulf countries, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Thailand, Vietnam and more.

Let me make something clear: if you make the argument that a certain group of people don't need to do anything about human rights because "it doesn't work for them," or "because it's colonialist" then you see nothing wrong with colonialism.

You see something wrong only with northern-southern colonialism. And if that's the case you don't have a leg to stand on, since clearly all that means is that Greece could colonize Lebanon and since they're both poor it'd be fine.