@shekinahcancook @rbreich *nodds in agreement*

But sadly I doubt anything like that would happen...

Or have you ever seen any #UN - #Vetopower ever face #accountability or #consequences??

Remember, the #USA literally not just made a law to threaten the #ICC but it coerced the ICC by threatening and crippling it's staff and judges from doing their job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/14/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court

Arizona governor vetoes anti-trans bathroom bill and vows to protect LGBTQ+ youth. Arizona’s Democratic governor has declared that she is prepared to veto every single anti-trans bill that state lawmakers pass to her desk after slapping down an anti-trans bathroom bill.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/10/katie-hobbs-arizona-governor-bathroom-bill-trans/

#PinkNews #ArizonaGovernor #TransRights #LGBTQYouth #VetoPower #BathroomBill #Politics #News

@benaryorg #PuertoRico is one of these #WarGains (American-Spanish War to be precise) that the #USA denies statehood amd independence.

A clear violation if the #UN's #AntiColonization charter.

But since the US is a #Vetopower nothing will change, and I'd rather expect D.C. to genocide >25% of it's population than to let Puerto Ricans be independent (as they did with the #Philliphines)...

@saint_rebel_ukraine_ Regardless if #Ukraine, where #Russia as #Vetopower is cockblocking any resolution NOT in their favour or #MINURSO which does everything wrong a #UN mission could do.

@walterdunham since when.did the #ICC ever got theor hands of a #WarCriminal who's a citizen of a #UN - #VetoPower?

The #USA literally weaponized #sanctions and #embargos against ICC personnel to force them to not investigate #WarCrimes in #Iraq and #Afghanistan.

Not to mention BOTH invasions are #CeimesOfAggressions - just like the #Russia|n violation of the #BudapestMemorandum since 2013.
It's just the #cowardice of the USA & #UK that #Ukraine was left alone, creating dangerous precedences.

@noelreports the problem: #Russia is a #nuclear & #vetopower to making #Putin accountable is politically undesired by the #UN per design and not factually possible in any legal way.

@Arcade_Atticus @RouxJ even if they loose: They are a #UN #Vetopower so there's no way to force them into compliance against their will but forcing them into #ConditionlessSurrender...

In looking at various forms of power, one point that's increassingly clear to me is that in a mature and multipolar society what exists are multiple power centres, each often with the effective capability to say "no". The word veto comes directly from the Latin, for "I forbid", and comes from that culture's multipolar power structure, the Senate.

There's also a lesson from warfare and combat, which is that the ability to induce damage or cost on an enemy whilst avoiding it oneself is also powerful. This is the difference between melee and ranged weapons (hand-to-hand, or tooth-and-claw, vs. ballistic or projectile weapons, see also "time-ranged" weapons in the form of traps and snares). "You don't have to be there for it".

Camouflage and armour afford similar capabilities.

The dynamics enabling NIMBY attacks are that stalling tactics don't incure consts or liabilities for those engaging in them. Sometimes this has merits, it very often does not, e.g., the delay of a bike-lanes project which sees scores of additional cycling and pedestrian deaths due to street traffic.

#MoneyIsPower #TimeIsMoney #VetoPower #Obstructionism #NEPA #NIMBY #constructionCosts #construction #housing #UCLALewisCenter

Why does it cost so much to build things in America?

Researchers have ruled out some of the more obvious potential explanations for why these projects cost more in the US.

As transit researcher Alon Levy writes in a report for the Niskanen Center, “This is not about our wealth: there is no correlation between a country’s GDP per capita and its subway construction costs. Nor is it about geological factors: the biggest factor behind a project’s cost is what country it is in, and costs are fairly consistent even across different geologies ... This is purely institutional.”

And when it comes to roads and the bulk of the high costs — “the new construction bit” — Turner says even though he has “no idea why those prices are increasing,” he can “eliminate a lot of things.” Turner explains that common theories like unions or the way we’re building roads or where we’re building them (for example, in more urban areas) are not supported by statistical evidence.

Time is money, money is power, power is delaying transportation projects

https://www.vox.com/22534714/rail-roads-infrastructure-costs-america

h/t Shane D. Phillips / #UCLALewisCenter

#housing #construction #constructionCosts #NIMBY #NEPA #Obstructionism #VetoPower #TimeIsMoney #MoneyIsPower