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Zuckerberg isn't insane. People in silicon valley sometime forget how much of a bubble they live in. Twitter just effectively started a full-scale war with the federal government. Zuckerberg knows the blowback is coming. I can't see how twitter doesn't become a life long target of the Trump administration to make an example of. If Facebook doesn't want to get caught in the splash zone they might want to back away fro…
> Twitter just effectively started a full-scale war with the federal government. This is kind of true, but also points to just how insane this historical moment is. Can you imagine any prior administration acting this way? Can you imagine Bill Clinton raging out about AOL, or GW Bush trying to sic the FCC on Yahoo because it sent his email to spam?
Zuckerberg isn't insane. People in silicon valley sometime forget how much of a bubble they live in. Twitter just effectively started a full-scale war with the federal government. Zuckerberg knows the blowback is coming. I can't see how twitter doesn't become a life long target of the Trump administration to make an example of. If Facebook doesn't want to get caught in the splash zone they might want to back away fro…
> Twitter just effectively started a full-scale war with the federal government. This is kind of true, but also points to just how insane this historical moment is. Can you imagine any prior administration acting this way? Can you imagine Bill Clinton raging out about AOL, or GW Bush trying to sic the FCC on Yahoo because it sent his email to spam?
I wasn't alive for them, but I wouldn't be surprised if Truman or Eisenhower would crush Twitter in the age of McCarthyism. Although they tended to focus on individuals rather than companies or organizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
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Last I checked there is flames everywhere now and he is certainly fanning them.
How is warning people not to loot 'fanning the flames'?
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How is warning people not to loot 'fanning the flames'?
The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967. It was meant to evoke that event, which could easily be called “fanning the flames.”
Really? I'm pretty sure it was meant to /rhyme/.
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Last I checked there is flames everywhere now and he is certainly fanning them.
How is warning people not to loot 'fanning the flames'?
Read that above statement, how is it not fanning the flames? That a way a president get to talk to an oppressed black population?
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The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967. It was meant to evoke that event, which could easily be called “fanning the flames.”
> The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967 it was meant to evoke that event Really? I'm pretty sure it was meant to /rhyme/.
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> The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967 it was meant to evoke that event Really? I'm pretty sure it was meant to /rhyme/.
Can’t tell if you are trolling or not. Do some reading. https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-...