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It’s in Europe’s interest to put sanctions on Israel Limiting trade, travel and freezing foreign reserves would show the EU is willing to act independently of the US

👉 About EU, Gaza and Ukraine, by @martinsandbu.ft.com: "There is no need ... to deem the two wars in any way equivalent to judge that sanctions may be justified in both. And that is why it is time for Europe to clarify specifically how it might place sanctions on Israel."
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He’s absolutely not innocent that it came to this, but props to him for finally drawing a moral line at what’s going on. Not what I would’ve expected actually.

Völlig unmöglich ist es nicht damit auf Unternehmen Druck zu machen, aber der einfachste Weg ist es nicht grad. Und Trump war bisher ja sehr offen damit was er nutzt um Druck zu machen. Vielleicht macht er das hier auch noch, aber bisher sehe ich davon nichts.

Klar denkt er dass es seine Machtbasis sichert, aber weil er glaubt dass das der US Wirtschaft hilft und dass es US Industrieproduktion ankurbelt, was ihm helfen würde, nicht weil er glaubt es crasht sie.

Weil die tariffs je Land erhoben werden, nicht spezifisch für ein Unternehmen oder selbst eine Branche. Das ist zB bei den federal grants für die Unis ganz anders (hervorragend für pressure) und die law Firma hat er einfach ad hoc angegriffen

Entweder er glaubt das ist toll für die US Wirtschaft oder er glaubt es crasht sie, schließt sich ja aus. Sein ganzer Orbit denkt dass wäre super und würde manufacturing Jobs in die USA zurück bringen. Das meinen die schon todernst.

Ok, der Chris Murphy take ist wirklich Quatsch. Das ist keine intentional self-immolation. Trump glaubt wirklich dass das gut ist, hat er auch schon immer. Gibt 30J alte Videos von ihm wo er behauptet mit Tariffs wird man reich. Und “business by business” kann man die auch nicht aufheben.

At least on THIS topic, I don’t think we vastly disagree what’s a good take and what is funny. On other stuff, yeah, probably. 🥲

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Nailed it.

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Ok @rodmckay.bsky.social recommend a handful of accounts you thought had some good takes on this. My TL here isn’t really great, but I haven’t given up yet and willing to build it out. (Fwiw, I had no trouble seeing good takes on twitter, but ymmv ofc)

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If you propose to get rid of female sports there would, there would not be any woman in Olympic track & field, swimming or cycling events. Sticking up for protecting this is indeed necessary for equality, not ignoring the biological *in*equality that exists.

For different reasons, but otherwise in a similar way males also outperform females in running or cycling. There are ~2500 men that have run faster marathon times than the woman’s world record.

Why are you wilfully trying to misunderstand this? The data is very clear and that is what I was talking about: at the highest levels males far outperform females in chess. That’s a simple statement of fact.

Yes it’s beyond obvious that males are better at chess. It’s also not really that surprising, as there are several well-established factors that explain this:

- IQ tails
- spatial reasoning
- interest in ‘things’ vs ‘people’
- competitiveness
- autism rate

A transgender chess master of course is not “cheating”. But if he is born male he should not and cannot participate in the separate female category. It doesn’t really impact his game in the “normal” category at all though.

Chess doesn’t have a “male” category, they only have a category that is open for all and in which males and females compete and then a *separate* female category. Precisely because there is such an enormous sex gap in very high level chess.

The old UCI policy wasn’t really fit to address this issue. Testosterone thresholds don’t really remove all of the male advantage.

That doesn’t resolve the issue of fairness though, and from basically all of the science on the topic we have we know that they do retain at least some male advantage.

Can’t vouch for anyone else’s brainworms but I do not believe anyone is or was “plotting” anything nefarious. It’s an entirely legitimate wish to participate in female sports as a transwoman.

Yeah, that’s also something I found very odd. Smacks of deliberatey targeting two different audiences.

Transgender Women in the Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on Testosterone Suppression and Performance Advantage - PubMed Males enjoy physical performance advantages over females within competitive sport. The sex-based segregation into male and female sporting categories does not account for transgender persons who exper...

The main reason right wing haters and bigots have jumped on this topic is the completely out of touch and unscientific position of much of the left on this. The actual science is pretty clear. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289906/

Chess has one of the most lopsided sex differences among sports. FIDE‘s decision on this is if anything *even more* defensible than the UCI‘s, as HRT actually does impact physical ability, but there isn’t much reason to believe it diminishes any of the reasons for male outperformance in chess.

Fair point. That is actually a good explanation. Not aware of all of his tweets on this, just saw the dust up when he didn’t recognise Austin Killips as Tour of the Gila winner which, under this policy, wouldn’t have happened of course.

This has been official policy in most major sports since at least two years now. If you want to change this “fuck off” isn’t the right strategy to convince anyone.