Re:How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights (2015)
by dtornabene on Thursday February 04, 2016 @08:14PM
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No, Bernie sanders is not "against trade". He's "against" ceding elements of our sovereignty to unaccountable transnational corporations and the "trade" bodies that have sprung up to protect them.
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Re:How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights (2015)
by damir00 on Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:00PM
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It's the same thing.
International trade is impossible without both sides ceding "elements of...sovereignty".
Re:How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights (2015)
by dtornabene on Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:35PM
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Not sure that thats true. And I'm not super interested in a prolonged semantic argument that would sort it out. I'll just note that the "elements of sovereignty" I was referring to are transnational corps attacking nation-states for enacting laws that would protect their populations but would cut into corporate profits. Many examples of which already exist, like, say, the cigarette labelling laws of Austraila and Togo. Or environmental protection laws in Canada (and else where). These are not the sorts of "sovereignty" one negotiates away in the traditional westphailian system of nation states.