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Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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I’ve never doubted your credentials but rather your judgement given you voted Trump once before. Now several generations of people watched how this man ascended to the US presidency and will use it as a lesson. In order to learn the consequences, the GOP must reap what it has sown
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Watching the news is enraging now, all I can do is keep my recurring donations and hope for the best. I have almost no stomach left for conservatives who enabled this with their deal with the devil
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A variation on tit for tat is actually the best game theory strategy: tit for tat with something like 10% forgiveness. The issue with tit for tat is it locks into a never ending spiral without forgiveness. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”
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During our Ukraine rallies we sometimes see the red hat Americans curse at us from their cars, naturally the pro Ukraine people start allying with anti Trump people
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Meanwhile Europe will say their nice words and Trump just goes golfing. The west is fallen
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Your take on Democrats doesn’t make any sense to me - you want them to play nice when Trump won on being constantly insulting? He proved that playing nice is worthless when conservatives still side with him.
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Well “the art of the deal” includes using leverage on allies. It’s always been isolationist in that sense. Naturally that makes other pariahs potential allies.
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Only until conservatives and liberals unite can they resist populism with competence. The first term was excusable, but conservatives failed to impeach, and failed to prevent the 2nd term. Democrats failed to win, but rarely is anyone honest about how MAGA won.
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For the same reason conservatives couldn’t see that Clinton and Harris are more conservative than Trump ever was
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Yes I am aware that it is still Biden aid, however some 97b of the 182b has yet to be disbursed. Calling it the last shipments makes no sense to me. Biden barely disbursed half the aid. Otherwise yes, Trump has put no pressure on Russia besides resuming Biden.
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That doesn’t explain why he resumed aid and intelligence when he simply could have left it paused.
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I don’t know if the kompromat exists or not, it was a theory. But I would disagree that Trump can’t be fooled - his ignorance, even disdain, for history combined with narcissistic tendencies means flattery works very predictably. I assure you every world leader saw Harris reduce him in the debate.
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If kompromat on Trump exists I would guess it is related to the elections. From a psychological standpoint, if we assume Trump is a cheater, then it’s likely he’s worked to steal every election he’s been in. Imagine cheating and still losing, that explains his January 6th rage too.
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The Vance memes that are going viral, likely Russia planting the seeds of their next election interference campaign.
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MAGA doesn’t care. President bone spurs and his life of creepy pageant luxury & casino bankruptcy does not inspire morality. Quite the opposite.
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Unfortunately both the complexity of internet security and the hype of cryptocurrency enables North Korean theft. The good news is every Bitcoin transaction is public. What people will do with that information remains to be seen
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Yes I understand the words they say, the question is what actions will they take.
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Doesn’t seem like Europe has the will to take initiative still. Trump seems more keen on using this JFK file release to keep MAGA distracted while he and Putin make designs on dividing Ukraine. If I had to guess tomorrow will be like “Putin is being reasonable and Zelensky has no cards”.
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He could and I hope so but it will not return the lives of those lost in the meantime. The aid is still Biden aid, the sanctions were Biden as well. Trump has done nothing towards Russia besides pausing and resuming Biden.
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Cryptocurrencies can be tracked as every transaction using them is recorded by their blockchain ledgers. Crypto is used to bypass the law because there are few laws around it, so BRICS is keen on it (and it’s trust-less). The west should be leaning in on the transparency of crypto (the real DOGE).
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The theory makes sense but doesn’t recognize that each “zig or zag” has implications on the battlefield and abroad. All the movement creates fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD). There are reports that Russia uses cryptocurrency to bypass sanctions (which could be tracked but it’s unclear if US knows)
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The Kursk supply lines struggling was only amplified by the loss of aid and intelligence, Trump gleefully enabled this. Now Putin will dilly dally on ceasefire, with battlefield momentum going all the same, and Trump will ho and hum. Really despicable.
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When Kellogg gave that interview in which he likened Ukraine to a stubborn mule and joked about Trump’s “24 hour” campaign promise - many Ukrainians soured on him. And Bitcoin is the summation of that Shultz quote on trust. Note: Ukraine is #4 holder of BTC. USA, China, and UK are #1-4.
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I can admit I did not vote in 2016 - I was 25 at the time and had not yet voted. Have not missed an election since. And I was always against Trump. But friends said I had “TDS”. Difficult time for me as a Ukrainian American. “The boy who cried wolf” accusations, implying Trump is indeed a wolf…
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Sometimes I wonder if you did any research on Trump at all in 2016, like this video is framed that you are realizing who Trump is now. He’s 78 years old… the history is all there. Conservatives gave up morality (their strength over liberals) for Trump. Now they wonder why their party is compromised.
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We have reached a point where even if Trump were to 180 and crush Russia it would not restore the relationship with Ukraine. Kellogg joking and laughing about Trump’s 24 hour promise was heartless. Rubio Waltz and Kellogg will not be forgotten. I am embarrassed to have put any belief in you & them.
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I’ve been trying to tell you for so long professor. Trump is a thin skinned nepotism baby that wears pounds of makeup. He is incredibly weak. He may genuinely cause WW3 with his weakness. He mentions it because it is a projection of his own fears. His defense of Putin was appalling.
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I’m sorry but this is just not surprising. As a professor, did you ever look into Trump University? How did you vote for this man in 2016? So called conservatives need to step up, before it’s too late. Although I personally think that window has already passed. Trump projected WW3 onto Harris.
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I appreciate your Ukraine coverage as a 2nd gen Ukrainian American. But your takes on Trump are frustrating because his partiality to Russia has long been apparent to me - my family had been consistent Republicans until Trump in 2016. We miss McCain.
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Ask yourself professor, what happens if Putin were to offer the rare earth materials in occupied Ukraine? Sounds like a much easier deal for a Russian sympathizer to me.
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He voted for Trump in 2016 - he doesn’t always do his due diligence
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Sinema is no longer a Senator, she was replaced by Ruben Gallego (D)
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You voted for him in 2016 and now you’re asking why the craven, spineless continue to be craven and spineless?
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US already has bases in Greenland. It’s under NATO orbit. This is normalizing Russian expansionism.
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We had 4 years of this already. He’s not even in office yet.
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I hope so, and would bet on it at about 90%.
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Horrible take on Hunter, have you so readily forgotten Trump’s first term pardons? If anything he paved the way for this move from Biden.
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Arizona
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4. All of the above. I don’t like left/right terminology as it is reductive and fuels polarization. But IMO echo chambers are a choice people make for themselves. Blue Sky gives more control over the feed by separating the Discover and Following tabs.
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I don’t know how to link another post in comments but Mark Cuban’s pinned post is an example of his experience with comments
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Marc, with all due respect, Democrats and yourself will not address election questions. Why are Russian bomb threats being sweeped under the rug? Are we supposed to believe the Trump campaign made no effort to cheat? Everyday that you dodge this issue confirms that you have already backed down.
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4. Was never on Twitter. Reddit and Facebook were my preferred social media. Have a crypto background and Blue Sky’s decentralization attracted me. I’m hoping Blue Sky can help dispel the myths around decentralization which I see as critical to the future.
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So we should accept Trump’s political career launching on birtherism because Obama cracked a few jokes at his expense at the correspondence dinner? Anti-anti is a double negative.
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Unhealthy definitely, but I don’t think true collapse is likely. Presumably the Russian oligarchs would take action and/or a “savior” like China steps in. Trump seemingly wants to save Russia too and sadly Russia has more gas/oil to offer than Ukraine.