Trump has tried to create a replacement for the UN.
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Trump has tried to create a replacement for the UN. The only countries who have joined are smaller countries who felt like they couldn't say "no" to Trump in this moment due to US military and economic power. The logo is a big embarrassment. It explains everything. Here is the BOP's logo next to the UN's logo.
The UN's logo tries to downplay the centering of US power and European power. Board of Peace has no pretense of egalitarianism.

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Trump has tried to create a replacement for the UN. The only countries who have joined are smaller countries who felt like they couldn't say "no" to Trump in this moment due to US military and economic power. The logo is a big embarrassment. It explains everything. Here is the BOP's logo next to the UN's logo.
The UN's logo tries to downplay the centering of US power and European power. Board of Peace has no pretense of egalitarianism.

I think most Americans would like the first logo more, unfortunately. The projection in the UN logo is an unfamiliar one and I would not be shocked if Trump and his associates struggled to understand what it was. Or felt annoyed by how such a projection forces you to think for a moment.
The BOP logo runs to the other extreme. And this requires intentional not just incidental myopia.
My home country is acting like a jackass in more overt ways than ever.


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Trump has tried to create a replacement for the UN. The only countries who have joined are smaller countries who felt like they couldn't say "no" to Trump in this moment due to US military and economic power. The logo is a big embarrassment. It explains everything. Here is the BOP's logo next to the UN's logo.
The UN's logo tries to downplay the centering of US power and European power. Board of Peace has no pretense of egalitarianism.

@futurebird Now, he'll just need the Board of Truth and the Board of Love.
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Trump has tried to create a replacement for the UN. The only countries who have joined are smaller countries who felt like they couldn't say "no" to Trump in this moment due to US military and economic power. The logo is a big embarrassment. It explains everything. Here is the BOP's logo next to the UN's logo.
The UN's logo tries to downplay the centering of US power and European power. Board of Peace has no pretense of egalitarianism.

@futurebird the little detail that the board of peace logo has so many gilded elements, while the un logo has none. speaks volumes
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Trump has tried to create a replacement for the UN. The only countries who have joined are smaller countries who felt like they couldn't say "no" to Trump in this moment due to US military and economic power. The logo is a big embarrassment. It explains everything. Here is the BOP's logo next to the UN's logo.
The UN's logo tries to downplay the centering of US power and European power. Board of Peace has no pretense of egalitarianism.

Someone should tell him it's much more classy and powerful to call them "ministries" not "boards" boards are for corporations with their board meetings.
Give us the "Ministry of Peace" and the "Ministry of Truth"
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Someone should tell him it's much more classy and powerful to call them "ministries" not "boards" boards are for corporations with their board meetings.
Give us the "Ministry of Peace" and the "Ministry of Truth"
He's certainly bored of truth and has been for many years.
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@futurebird Now, he'll just need the Board of Truth and the Board of Love.
@riley @futurebird
so
the Board of Peace does War (Colonialism)the Board of Truth does Lies (Fake News)
and
the Board of Love does Hate (Immigrants, Trans, etc)yup, I think that covers what the US is up to right now
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Trump has tried to create a replacement for the UN. The only countries who have joined are smaller countries who felt like they couldn't say "no" to Trump in this moment due to US military and economic power. The logo is a big embarrassment. It explains everything. Here is the BOP's logo next to the UN's logo.
The UN's logo tries to downplay the centering of US power and European power. Board of Peace has no pretense of egalitarianism.

The entire endeavour has strong "We don't need no UN, we got UN at home" vibes.
I haven't followed the news that closely over the weekend. But I don't see anybody taking it serious.
If anything, it's seen as a litmus test for European heads of state based on how they are wording their refusal.
Merz
https://www.dw.com/en/merz-says-germany-wont-join-trumps-board-of-peace/a-75633920 -
Trump has tried to create a replacement for the UN. The only countries who have joined are smaller countries who felt like they couldn't say "no" to Trump in this moment due to US military and economic power. The logo is a big embarrassment. It explains everything. Here is the BOP's logo next to the UN's logo.
The UN's logo tries to downplay the centering of US power and European power. Board of Peace has no pretense of egalitarianism.

Also to add, this is not an international or US organisation, it's owned by Trump personally. According to the BoP's own charter he is chairman in a personal capacity, he cannot be removed from BoP and he controls everything that happens in it. The membership fees go to an account he controls.
Even if he was removed from power in the US, he would still remain as head of BoP.
It's just another Trump scam.
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Trump has tried to create a replacement for the UN. The only countries who have joined are smaller countries who felt like they couldn't say "no" to Trump in this moment due to US military and economic power. The logo is a big embarrassment. It explains everything. Here is the BOP's logo next to the UN's logo.
The UN's logo tries to downplay the centering of US power and European power. Board of Peace has no pretense of egalitarianism.

@futurebird Def made room for Greenland in the gilded globe blechhhhh



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I think most Americans would like the first logo more, unfortunately. The projection in the UN logo is an unfamiliar one and I would not be shocked if Trump and his associates struggled to understand what it was. Or felt annoyed by how such a projection forces you to think for a moment.
The BOP logo runs to the other extreme. And this requires intentional not just incidental myopia.
My home country is acting like a jackass in more overt ways than ever.


@futurebird BOP's appears to be just a circle-cropped Mercator projection, where the "gridlines" don't actually correspond to anything. The "equator" appears to be more or less the VA-NC border.
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@futurebird the little detail that the board of peace logo has so many gilded elements, while the un logo has none. speaks volumes
@mynameistillian @futurebird Damn they made CREDV irl
/dumb inside joke
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Someone should tell him it's much more classy and powerful to call them "ministries" not "boards" boards are for corporations with their board meetings.
Give us the "Ministry of Peace" and the "Ministry of Truth"
@futurebird in Hebrew, they've translated it as the Council of Peace. Close enough, I'd say
Macron