• spirinolas@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Uh? Of course he isn’t. Why would Putin tell him to put tariffs on himself? That makes no sense.

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      29 days ago

      The US has been sanctioning Russia for the better part of the last decade. We aren’t tariffing them because we aren’t trading with them.

      We also aren’t tariffing Venezuela, Cuba, or North Korea, for the same reasons.

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        Maybe, but apparently we’re tariffing multiple uninhabited islands. It would seem that active trade is not a perquisite for tariffs these days. can’t be having people move out there and not getting tariffed in the future.

        I hope he puts tariffs on Mars next. Maybe after he falls out with musk.

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        it’s funny that this is being downvoted. lemmy is basically reddit. rooting for the good guys, but also dogshit stupid

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          Downvoted because it’s wrong : We aren’t tariffing them because we aren’t trading with them.

          So are some inhabited islands which are hit by tariffs. Maybe the dogshit stupid is the one not seeing the ties between trump and putin.

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          Systems that have voting mechanisms result in hive minds. It’s an inevitable result.

          1st someone is much more likely to vote something up or down depending on how positive / negative it is. So it snowballs sort of like compounding interest

          2nd the simplest most common denominator takes bubble to the top. Precisely because more people can understand and therefore vote.

          It’s why you’ll always see some screenshot of Twitter much higher than a long in depth article. Even though the article has infinitely more value.