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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Re: the disability treaty, I wasn't sure why Repubs would oppose a treaty based almost entirely on US law, until I got near the end of the article:
Republicans, by and large, seem to be their own benefactors. Power accumulates power, and businessmen often cross over into politics. So basically, the Republicans are still relevant because they've spent the last few decades very savvily making themselves relevant. This last year they've just kind of lost it on some major social issues that they just wouldn't bend on.
The GOP in general seems to be increasingly suspicious of the UN simply because the UN wants everyone to play by the same rules globally. So their resistance did not surprise me even before the whole "disabled get access to reproduction rights."
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It's more then that: the American Conspiracy Theories about the UN come into play...
Keep Rolling OnThe conspiracy theorists have less influence than you think, Greenmantle. It's one thing to think that the UN is a danger to sovereignity through diplomatic means (which in this case it seems like other countries are trying to enforce their rules on us), it's another to think that they're forming a one world government. Or that the WHO is going to sterilize half the population.
I have got to stop watching that Jesse Ventura show.
edited 4th Dec '12 12:32:03 AM by AceofSpades
Well, Glenn Beck has just recently released a thriller called Agenda 21
which uses a UN-lead New World Order scenario as its backstory. Make that of what you will.
Romney rejoins the Marriot Board of Directors.
DOW Chemical's CEO is more worried about China's leadership transition than the fiscal cliff.
Bloomberg failed to convince Hillary to run for Mayor of New York City.
edited 4th Dec '12 4:49:47 AM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
No it won't. Or at least, not China Takes Over the World style like some people have been predicting/fearing. Their massive economic growth in recent years has been driven almost entirely by the fact that they were in the process of catching up to the global standard. When you're as far behind as they were, you can make huge gains in very little time simply by bringing yourself up to the level of everyone else. But such a growth rate isn't sustainable — once you get close to the rest of the world, you can't piggyback on progress already made anymore, and your advancement flatlines. If your economy isn't ready for it, you can even backslide (though it's anyone's guess if China will do that or not).
edited 4th Dec '12 6:04:30 AM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Krugman's latest blog
shows a graphical view of the sources of the current deficit.
Notably, without the Bush tax cuts, the Iraq war, recovery measures, and the aggregate effect of the Great Recession, we'd be in a surplus right now, or close to it.
edited 4th Dec '12 8:04:58 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Surprisingly good news.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Stephen Colbert made a characteristically apropos point on his show last night: the GOP benefits when people are scared and insecure. Reduced crime rates in New York, for example, are undermining their "angry white male" voter base. His tongue-in-cheek recommendation to fix this problem was of course that minorities start committing more crimes to "get back at The Man".
Still, it points out a basic problem with the GOP's situation. They benefit from uncertainty about the economy, crime, etc.; thus their most successful method to obtain and remain in power is to cause said uncertainty. Once you realize this, you get to the bottom of the "fiscal cliff" "negotiations". Specifically, they cannot afford, politically, to allow Barack Obama to be successful in his bid to recover the economy.
That plus a bunch of rich white folks throwing a temper tantrum over taxes and the anti-gay/anti-abortion crowd is almost their entire support base right now.
edited 4th Dec '12 9:52:18 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"GOP Sen. Jim DeMint: Boehner’s ‘fiscal cliff’ proposal ‘will destroy American jobs’
They've figured out which way the wind is blowing.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.In foxholes, everyone's a Keynesian?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I wish, but nah. At least, judging from this quote from said article:
No closet Keynesianism here.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.

I can't help but feel that was a tad hypocritical.
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016