What's next, they won't even sell you the rope at the hardware store?
Am I expected to grow my own lynching tree?
Should I accelerate the incubation of my own Mike Pence clone, in the basement of my own research lab!?
Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trending Topic
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've (anecdotally) observed this is the case with some trending topics. You'll go check out something like #BabyKillingIsGood (not real, I made this hash tag up obviously), thinking, wow that's crazy, the hashtag invokes an idea I find quite objectionable as would any reasonable person. And 99.9% of the tweets on that hash tag are, "Um, actually, killing babies is not good. #BabyKillingIsGood #DumbIdea #No #Disagree…
Great for engagement
Yeah, got me to click. After seeing enough of that, I stopped assuming the topic indicated support (or lack of support) for the idea it conveyed. They became less interesting to me at that point.
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#13These people are a lost cause. There was a vicious attack on an unassuming black woman in LA yesterday where more than 20 trump supporters held her down and punched and maced her. These people are terrorists and should be dealt with accordingly.
LA Times story on this:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-08/black-wo...
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#14Good. Calls for violence are unacceptable.
I think what makes it murky is that it was trending because people were likely mostly critically quoting Wednesdays insurrectionists, not endorsing their words.
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#15This would be whack-a-mole otherwise, but when I saw this trending the vast majority of the tweets were sharing videos of people chanting that slogan in the Capitol amidst the storm. By suppressing the sharing of that information people are actually less likely to be aware that's what they were chanting (I know I would be less aware because that's where I learned about it). Now I guess there's the potential they were…
Is it enough for other news organizations or even more small time / personal sources to mirror the videos? Possibly something that can convey more context than 280 characters allows?
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#16Sometimes I wonder if most or all of the problems with major social media sites come from trending pages and private groups. The concept of keeping up with people online isn't a bad one, but so many of the bad stories wouldn't be so terrible if they weren't amplified by trending pages or huge private groups. Trending pages most consistently, in my opinion.
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#18These people are a lost cause. There was a vicious attack on an unassuming black woman in LA yesterday where more than 20 trump supporters held her down and punched and maced her. These people are terrorists and should be dealt with accordingly.
So? Just because a few people did something unacceptable doesn't all of them are like this. A while back a child got killed named Cannon Hinnant by a black person for no reason does that mean we should label all blacks as a terrorist?
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#19I considered trying to get visa to USA and work there, but honestly last year makes me really worried about living there
is it safe to live there?
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#20These people are a lost cause. There was a vicious attack on an unassuming black woman in LA yesterday where more than 20 trump supporters held her down and punched and maced her. These people are terrorists and should be dealt with accordingly.
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