@bi4smooth said in Russia rejects European Court of Human Rights order to recognise same-sex unions:
Considering that the US accounts for about 4% of the world's population, and that we continue to battle economic, social, and criminal injustice - institutionalized injustice - I would say you are demonstrating a level of HUBRIS common among poorly educated US citizens, and often derided by the rest of the world as "Ugly Americans" (not in appearance, but in attitude).
The American Experiment has worked for almost 250 years it is not perfect and it will never be perfect but their is no system in the world that compares to it.
I would say you are demonstrating a level of HUBRIS common among poorly educated US citizens, and often derided by the rest of the world as "Ugly Americans" (not in appearance, but in attitude).
Correct me if I am wrong but are you assuming all Patriot Americans are poorly educated citizens? Why should matter what other people think about the unique American experience. Why if we are so horrible do so many peoples around the world struggle to come here? It sounds like Liberal elitist's talking points.
You're welcome to have interests solely in US politics and news, but shouldn't you then leave discussions about World Politics alone, rather than steer them to US issues?
World politics effect the US since we fund NATO the defense of all those democratic socialists' countries and there would not be a United Nation if the US didn't form it and pay the lion share of it's expenses.
I mean, you're free to post in any topic you want - I'm not the content police! (LOL) - but it would seem to me to be more respectful of others for you to NOT steer their conversations to your own myopic, US-centered view...
I don't yet see were the actual content police have commented on my posts.
When you're not under the jurisdiction of those courts, I would call them independent countries!
The US has, for decades, ignored World Court and other countries' court's orders... citing our sovereignty! Why is it we're so upset when other countries do the same thing?
I am not upset in the least
The United States is not a State Party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute), which founded the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002 as a permanent international criminal court to "bring to justice the perpetrators of the worst crimes known to humankind – war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide", when national courts are unable or unwilling to do so.
I am not upset in the least with what Russia is doing. But it goes to trust of the Russian government. If they won't honor the Treaty then they should withdrawal from it.
There are plenty of examples of the US declining to participate in treaties the rest of the world - in some cases, UNANIMOUSLY - approves of (for example, we won't sign on to the treaties that ban the use of land mines...aka: Ottowa Treaty - although we are not alone in that one...)
But, I should point out, you appear in this statement to be in support of my argument that the Russians are not under the jurisdiction of the EU courts! LOL
No I don't support your agreement. The US adheres to the treaties they ratified.
Silly @geobear40 - ratifying the treaty did not put them under the jurisdiction of the EU courts! Indeed, I'm not aware of a single non-EU country that has agreed to "submit to the authority" of any EU court!
I have let the other derogatory comments aim at me personally slide but get back to discussing and debating ideas.
By ratifying the Treaty they agree to be bound by the findings of the European Count of Human Rights. I think you are stuck on the word European in the name of the 50 countries that have ratified the treaty that set up the count only a little more then half are EU member states.