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by llamaimperative 482 days ago
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dang 482 days ago
Please don't cross into breaking the site guidelines (e.g. "Get a grip.") no matter how right you are or feel you are.

Also, can you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We've had to ask you that more than once before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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llamaimperative 482 days ago
Apologies! Tbc I haven't seen any responses from you before, not sure if I missed them somehow.
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DeepSeaTortoise 482 days ago
> Or showing up to a cabinet meeting in a graphic t shirt and ball cap?

Sure, not what Trump likes.

But what Zelensky was wearing did have very little influence on the outcome of the meeting at best.

People dislike Zelensky having been called out on not wearing a suit, I merely explained why Trump puts importance on this.

We don't know if Trump called out Musk on not wearing a suit and what Musk's response might have been.

Overall the importance of wearing a suit is quite low, not at all proportionate to the outrage of Zelensky being called out for not wearing one.

> Trump has no stable “attitude” toward anything whatsoever except whatever he thinks accrues him more power and wealth, full stop.

How would Zelensky wearing a suit help Trump to further this agenda of his?

> He’s a well known germaphobe who will let a child wipe snot on his work desk

Yes, he is. But he tries to hide his actions resulting from that. Like getting behind something like a chair and wiping his hand on his suit.

We don't know if he cleaned the desk afterwards.

What, in your opinion, would have been the correct action he should have taken against the child?

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llamaimperative 482 days ago
… I don’t think anyone on “Ukraine’s side” here thinks it’s actually relevant whether Zelensky wore a suit or not. It is right-wing Twitter that’s acting like it’s such a huge disrespect and affront to America.

Your point is that Trump cares about decorum. My point is that Trump cares about power, and he would seize on whatever little thing he could to try to gain more power over our wartime ally. The suit is obviously a red herring.

You think when bullies make fun of a kid’s shoes they actually care about fashion? Duh: no.

When someone calls out a bully for making fun of someone’s shoes, is it because they give a fuck about their fashion choices? Duh: no.

That’s all that’s going on here.

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DeepSeaTortoise 482 days ago
Yup, sums it up nicely, I think.
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