Please don't give them permission. I just want healthcare.

The cons are famous for accusing everyone else of having an ideological agenda, even as they are pushing an extremist one that is extremely unpopular.

Classic DARVO tactics. This is the group that thinks there is some ideological agenda and nefarious things are afoot to merely recognize that people (including gay and trans) have a right to exist. Of course, they don't acknowledge their own efforts to crush the rights of those people as "ideological".

US veto power on simple uncontroversial legislation/policy is what harms UN credibility. This is a simple ovalization of 2d map for greater accuracy of area, and even 16th century trade routes (pacific doesn't matter).

There is a weird narrative where people pretend like there's some conspiracy to make countries near the equator appear smaller on maps.

The reality is the Mercator projection was made for navigation purposes. The world is round and there is no projection of a globe on a 2D surface that will ever be accurate. No one is trying to kick people down by choosing one projection over the other because none of them are going to be accurate. All maps are made with the general assumption that people understand the world is actually round and they should account for that. This kind of debate edges on flat earth kinds of silliness where people are being deliberately ignorant about how maps work in favour of dumb conspiracy theories.

Sure it's probably not worth opposing, but it's also a bunch of silliness that isn't worth proposing either. It is a sign the UN is disconnected from the actual problems of the world when they're worried about fucking map projections. Is it going to be international law that we can't use the Mercator maps for navigation, which is what they're designed for? Does the UN even understand that for some people a map isn't just a decoration to be put on a wall, but something that has a purpose?

The metric system is French propaganda. Like the inscription on the statue of liberty

“Instead of focusing on genuine problems of international peace, prosperity, or good relations, this body is debating map projects from the 16th century, and their role in promoting reparations and ‘cognitive justice,’” she said.

The strategy here seems to be to say the good thing in a mocking tone and hope enough people laugh and point with you.

America doesn't want a precedent of paying reparations for all the damage its empire has done to ~25 generations of humans around the world.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Equal_Earth_projection_SW.jpg/1280px-Equal_Earth_projection_SW.jpg

It's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection map