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At the risk of looking like a Musk defender, the screen captured comment did suggest doxxing those people.
But is that a crime? Not a rhetorical or smartass question, legitimately wondering if that would be a crime.
 

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I showed you the stupid policies (which I think everyone willing to acknowledge that test agrees is rather stupid)
You showed us the test, a lot of which does seem pretty poorly composed and weighted, yes.

the explicit motivation of the policies
Well, you showed us that a motivation they had in modifying the hiring process was diversity. You haven't drawn any credible connection between it and the questions you're objecting to, other than speculation that they were used as proxy characteristics.

the intended result of throwing out most of the applicants
An intended result of any hiring process's first stage is to filter out most of the candidates. You claimed something very different: that these questions intended to throw out candidates based on their RNO or sex.

[...] but throwing out extra piles of people who pass the traditional exam is at least questionable policy in the face of that shortage.
Wait, if they were filtered out by failing to reach the pass rate of this test, then they didn't pass.
 

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Does he realize that Canada would be such a blue state that it'd make California look like Kansas? No, of course he doesn't. He probably thinks they'd support him 100% out of "gratitude".
Right now Doug Ford, the right-wing Conservative Premier of Ontario is pretty much the most vocally anti-Trump of the major Canadian politicians. Ontario has an election coming up so Ford (a very savvy politician) is pretty much betting his political future on the fact that this represents the view of the majority of voters in Ontario.
 
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Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could buy TikTok

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the creation of a sovereign wealth fund within the next year, saying it could potentially buy the short video app TikTok.

Trump offered little in the way of detail and it was unclear how such a wealth fund would work. Typically such funds rely on a country's budget surplus to make investments, but the U.S. operates at a deficit. Its creation also would likely require approval from Congress.

"We're going to create a lot of wealth for the fund," Trump told reporters. "And I think it's about time that this country had a sovereign wealth fund."

Trump had previously floated such a government investment vehicle as a presidential candidate, saying it could fund "great national endeavors" like infrastructure projects such as highways and airports, manufacturing, and medical research.

Administration officials did not say how the fund would operate or be financed, but Trump has previously said it could be funded by "tariffs and other intelligent things."

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters the fund would be set up within the next 12 months.

"We're going to monetize the asset side of the U.S. balance sheet for the American people," Bessent said. "There'll be a combination of liquid assets, assets that we have in this country as we work to bring them out for the American people."

The Biden administration also was considering establishing such a fund prior to Trump's election in November, according to The New York Times and Financial Times.

Investors on Wall Street said the news came as a surprise.

"Creating a sovereign wealth fund suggests that a country has savings that will go up and can be allocated to this," said Colin Graham, head of multi-asset strategies at Robeco in London. "The economic rules of thumb don't add up."

There are over 90 such funds across the world managing over $8 trillion in assets, according to the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds.

In another surprise twist, Trump suggested the wealth fund could buy Tiktok, whose fate has been up in the air since a law requiring its Chinese owner ByteDance to either sell it on national security grounds or face a ban took effect on Jan. 19.

Trump, after taking office on Jan. 20, signed an executive order seeking to delay by 75 days the enforcement of the law.

Trump has said that he was in talks with multiple people over TikTok's purchase and would likely have a decision on the app's future in February. The popular app has about 170 million American users.
 

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So Trump- who criticized Biden for "playing favorites in the market"- is floating the idea of having the government outright buy a company. For what? What strategic purpose does this serve for the country? Is it going to do more for us than USAID did?

Oh yeah, by the way, actual President of the United States Elon Musk wants USAID shut down, calling it a "criminal organization".

 

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Right now Doug Ford, the right-wing Conservative Premier of Ontario is pretty much the most vocally anti-Trump of the major Canadian politicians. Ontario has an election coming up so Ford (a very savvy politician) is pretty much betting his political future on the fact that this represents the view of the majority of voters in Ontario.
I mean, that's the fascinating thing about that brand of the right wing. They love a certain amount of mutual support and joint purpose, but at the end of the day they are nationalists. Whilst its nice to have bonds of convenience between nationalists of different states when the main aim is winning elections against the hated liberal-left, once they gain power they're all about screwing over other countries, and next thing you know they're all at each other's throats.