NATO Summit protest MEGATHREAD

[Razgovory]

I suppose protesting a NATO summit is a perfectly rational act if your aim is to express your views on various issues to high ranking government officials of various Western Countries and the public at large.

[Sheilbh]

SHelf, your argument against the G8 is simply that it doesn't work.

I don't think tens of thousands of people protest the G8 meetings because they are pissed off that it is not effective enough.

You're right, but I don't think it does anything.  Which is different from it not working.  The UN High Commission on Human Rights doesn't work, but it does do stuff sometimes it's even useful and you can address how its actions succeed, or not, against its goals.

But G8 summits are a way of protesting the world's richest countries.  Convenient really.  That may be the best contribution they make.  I sympathise with anti-G8 feeling, that doesn't mean it's for the same reasons

[Razgovory]

Not really. His economic views are completely irrational. They just amount to knee jerk "Stick it to The Man!".

Oh, bullshit.  I don't want to "Stick it to the Man", I want to "Stick it to The Man, and Put Said Man's Head on a Stick London Bridge-Style As An Example To His Buddies".

My psuedo-Keynesian tendencies just happen to get overshadowed with my preference for an emphasis on regulation with a Gestapo flair, s'all.

Why you Free Market-types insist on trusting a methodology run by individuals whose basic premises are built upon and promoted by greed without consequence is rather disconcerting.  It is devoid of all ethos, and I have a problem with that.  Wall Street needs more Jesuits.

And you know where I stand on taxes.

That's nothing.  If I understand it correctly, the market types don't trust methodology.  Or at least ones that use mathematical models or statistics.  I believe they argue that testing their theories is essentially impossible.  It's sort of like creationism economics.

[derspiess]

Wall Street needs more Jesuits.

[Razgovory]

Wall Street needs more Jesuits.

Better then snake handlers.

[derspiess]

Wall Street needs more Jesuits.

Better then snake handlers.

Not on Wall Street.

[Razgovory]

Yes, on Wall Street.  I don't think speaking in tongues will impress the share holders.

[Neil]

Not really. His economic views are completely irrational. They just amount to knee jerk "Stick it to The Man!".

Oh, bullshit.  I don't want to "Stick it to the Man", I want to "Stick it to The Man, and Put Said Man's Head on a Stick London Bridge-Style As An Example To His Buddies".

My psuedo-Keynesian tendencies just happen to get overshadowed with my preference for an emphasis on regulation with a Gestapo flair, s'all.

Why you Free Market-types insist on trusting a methodology run by individuals whose basic premises are built upon and promoted by greed without consequence is rather disconcerting.  It is devoid of all ethos, and I have a problem with that.  Wall Street needs more Jesuits.

And you know where I stand on taxes.

That's nothing.  If I understand it correctly, the market types don't trust methodology.  Or at least ones that use mathematical models or statistics.  I believe they argue that testing their theories is essentially impossible.  It's sort of like creationism economics.

The market types don't trust them entirely because they've set the system up to be panic-based.

[CountDeMoney]

Wall Street needs more Jesuits.

Better then snake handlers.

Despiess' and the rest of the Languish GOPtards' idea of what Wall Street should be is a kindergarten with no teacher.  Let everybody just draw on the walls and shit everywhere, with no oversight.

[derspiess]

Yes, on Wall Street.  I don't think speaking in tongues will impress the share holders.

I doubt Jesuits' views on economics would take companies very far, either.

[MadImmortalMan]

There are times when the G8 absolutely does work. I'll give you one.

In the wake of the Japan quake and tsunami, the Japanese government had to roll out a massive rebuilding program which required them to roll the printers on yen. The yen would have crashed, but the G8 organized a massive attack on the yen with coordinated buying to prop it up in the international markets as an aid to Japan during the emergency and to keep the markets stable. Christine Lagarde made her name organizing the operation.

[Razgovory]

Yes, on Wall Street.  I don't think speaking in tongues will impress the share holders.

I doubt Jesuits' views on economics would take companies very far, either.

They do well enough secretly ruling the world.

[Neil]

There are times when the G8 absolutely does work. I'll give you one.

In the wake of the Japan quake and tsunami, the Japanese government had to roll out a massive rebuilding program which required them to roll the printers on yen. The yen would have crashed, but the G8 organized a massive attack on the yen with coordinated buying to prop it up in the international markets as an aid to Japan during the emergency and to keep the markets stable. Christine Lagarde made her name organizing the operation.

To which a hipster would reply 'What about Palestine?'

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[Caliga]

Hee, the people in our Chicago office were 'working from home' today because of that shit.