World Politics

Leaders of the countries of the world and global issues.

European Union

Priority request: Is it, with all its institutions, a net positive?

European Union Parliament

"The Members of the European Parliament are directly elected by voters in all Member States to represent people’s interests with regard to EU law-making and to make sure other EU institutions are working democratically."

Chinese government

The political system is described by the Chinese constitution as a "people's democratic dictatorship," while international observers generally classify it as an authoritarian system where political opposition is suppressed and civil liberties are curtailed -- Brave AI.

International Criminal Court (ICC)

"has faced a number of criticisms from governments and civil society groups, including objections to its jurisdiction, accusations of bias, Eurocentrism and racism, questioning of the fairness of its case selection and trial procedures, and doubts about its effectiveness" -- wikipedia.

socialism

Request: economic and political system where the major means of producing and distributing goods are owned or controlled collectively by the public or the workers rather than by private individuals.

pacifist

Priority request: A pacifist rejects war and believes there are no moral grounds which can justify resorting to war. War, for the pacifist, is always wrong. In a sense the philosophy is based on the idea that the ends do not justify the means. The word pacific denotes conciliatory -- wikipedia.

dictator

a ruler who is unconstrained by law; a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner -- vocabulary.com.

T/F: China is on the verge of an economic collapse

By request.

T/F: Europe is on the verge of an economic collapse

Priority request.

Nelson Mandela

Calibrated social impact of 505 (Truth vs. Falsehood, 2005).

apartheid

Priority request. Institutionalized racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. An "authoritarian political culture... ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population" -- wikipedia.

rioting, agitating, protesting

News media and more than a few politicians don't seem to know the difference.

world peace

By request.

Great Replacement conspiracy theory (accuracy of)

"conspiracy theorists attribute recent demographic changes in Europe to intentional policies advanced by global and liberal elites (the 'replacists') from within the Government of France, the European Union, or the United Nations; they describe it as a 'genocide by substitution''' -- wikipedia.

What is the ideal calibration for a Head of State?

Spoiler alert: our nations' leaders are nowhere close to the ideal.