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It doesn’t make sense that this would backfire, because Trump and his supporters are perfectly capable of holding conflicting viewpoints like this.

It’s totally reasonable to expect that this would be morally reprehensible when Democrats do it, but reasonable and a smart business move when a Republican does it.

This is a great point, and one I overlooked. Thanks for sharing!

Well if the crops are going bad, you don’t need to hire the truckers to move the produce, you don’t need to hire the grocers to sell the produce, and you don’t need to hire the chefs to cook the produce.

The article doesn’t address this though, rather:

Job openings decreased in health care and social assistance by 181,000, in arts and entertainment by 62,000, and in mining and logging by 13,000.

Which doesn’t say that it’s directly related. Health care and entertainment jobs reducing is probably more indicative of Americans spending less on discretionary spending either because of economic hardship or the expectation of economic hardship.

Mining and logging losses could be tariff related, or possibly in response to softening demand for primary inputs.

Current ICJ case: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/182

Putin claiming rights for all of Ukraine:

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-the-whole-ukraine-is-ours-theory-may-take-city-sumy-2025-06-20/
• https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2025/6/27/putin-confirms-he-wants-all-of-ukraine-as-europe-steps-up-military-aid

General video on Russian war goals: https://youtu.be/MhpoNL1gZbw

Example of Ukrainians suffering under Russian leadership:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

The Russian war goals include an annexation of the entirety of Ukraine and a genocide of the entire Ukrainian populace.

I don’t think giving in to that will lead to less suffering, it will lead to dramatically more suffering.

I like that we don’t have to put quotes around reciprocal this time.

It’s also weird because if they get rid of Elon then people would start looking at the actual fundamentals of Tesla which would lead to a much much lower stock price. In December, Tesla was valued at roughly the same as the rest of the worlds auto manufacturers combined, despite selling only 3% of the worlds cars in 2023.

I agree. The thing is also that Ukraine has absolutely no motive to carry out a DDOS of Twitter.

What would the positive outcome even be? Piss off the leader of the country that your asking for money/weapons?

Is this why Trump always cites $300B as theoney given to Ukraine? Because that’s the amount of frozen Russian assets and he hears about it from the Russians all the time?