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Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Trump, in a surprising reversal, told a gathering of farm state lawmakers and governors on Thursday morning that he was directing his advisers to look into rejoining the multicountry trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal he pulled out of within days of assuming the presidency.
Rejoining the 11-country pact could be a sharp reversal of fortune for many American industries that stood to benefit from the trade agreement's favorable terms and Republican lawmakers who supported the pact. The deal, which was initiated by the Obama administration, was largely viewed as a tool to prod China into making the type of economic reforms that the United States and others have long wanted.
Both Democrats and Republicans attacked the deal during the president campaign, but many business leaders were disappointed when Mr. Trump withdrew from agreement, arguing that the United States would end up with less favorable terms attempting to broker an array of individual trade pacts and that scrapping the deal would empower China.
Republicans in Congress have also been skeptical of Mr. Trump's tendencies on trade, and 25 Republican senators sent a letter to Mr. Trump urging him to re-engage with the pact "so that the American people can prosper from the tremendous opportunities that these trading partners bring."
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(Score: 2) by meustrus on Friday April 13 2018, @02:10PM (5 children)
Side note: "Insightful" probably isn't the right mod for this. Can we get an Agree mod as a counterpart to the Disagree mod?
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday April 13 2018, @02:27PM (2 children)
Defend your idea: https://github.com/SoylentNews/rehash/issues/445 [github.com]
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 13 2018, @05:01PM (1 child)
Okay, I done writed this thar comment . . .
What if Agree and Disgree were "vote counters" instead of mods? Instead of, and independent of mods. This idea has +121,719 Agree and -449 Disagree.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday April 13 2018, @05:18PM
I like the idea and I think I've brought it up before.
Essentially, you would be using a Reddit like scheme. We could filter/sort comments by moderation OR like/dislike stats (high number of likes, high like ratio, absolute value of votes, high votes but close to 1:1 likes/dislikes, etc). It would work as a second system on top of moderation, and could be given a larger number of points per day to spend, and convenient up and down arrows.
Is it too much a departure from the Slashdot formula? Possibly, but people complain about how things work now and we already have the Disagree mod in place, just waiting to be liberated.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 13 2018, @05:24PM (1 child)
I got a better idea. First, remove the Disagree mod. Then, when someone disagrees with a comment they can...wait for it...post a cogent reason for why they disagree with the post they are responding to. Yeah, it means that the drag and drool crowd might find themselves left out of the discussion when they have their Smite button taken away from them. Or, they could just man up and articulate reasons for why they disagree with a comment they read on the intertubes. It could work.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Friday April 13 2018, @05:54PM
No, it means they'll abuse the "Troll" or "Flamebait" moderation options to express "Disagree". Guess why the "Disagree" moderation option (with no effect on the score!) was introduced?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.