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A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

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#11

Did you do the same for this? https://wtop.com/dc/2020/05/dc-protests-of-george-floyds-dea...

I'm trying to read your comment charitably but I just can't find a humanising reason to post this. Because it's kind of unfair to assume you have a poor reason to do so, perhaps it would help me and hopefully other readers if you explained your line of thought here. Why do you want to know this?

Re: A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

#12
post #3

Are the tweets filtered for the event in any way, or is it just a random collection from all of twitter on that day?

Looks like it's based on search queries:

pandemic 5847

lockdown 5847

testing 5847

vaccine 5847

covid 5843

stock market 5843

jobs 5843

president 5842

mask 5840

travel 5839

spread 5837

economy 5836

quarantine 5836

unemployment 3045

coronavirus 2822

death rates 495

Re: A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

#15
Only a fool would use twitter. It's a place where anything you say can and will be held against you in the court of public opinion FOREVER.

If you must use it, then read-only mode should be sufficient. Leave the contributions to marketers and narcissists chasing likes.

Re: A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

#16
post #13

When state surveillance is not enough and “involved” citizens start to roll out their own. Don’t forget to “cancel” everyone on that list and keep the society divided for as long as possible.

> keep the society divided for as long as possible

There can't be unity with fascists. They don't respect the values and rules of a democracy.

Re: A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

#17
post #13

When state surveillance is not enough and “involved” citizens start to roll out their own. Don’t forget to “cancel” everyone on that list and keep the society divided for as long as possible.

Curious choice to focus blame on the people investigating and not the people making literal death threats...

Re: A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

#18
post #13

When state surveillance is not enough and “involved” citizens start to roll out their own. Don’t forget to “cancel” everyone on that list and keep the society divided for as long as possible.

Freedom of speech != freedom from consequences of your speech.

It's not like somebody hacked someone's private messaging system. If you put the world on blast with your dumb ideas, I don't have any problem with others pointing it out.

Re: A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

#19
post #13

When state surveillance is not enough and “involved” citizens start to roll out their own. Don’t forget to “cancel” everyone on that list and keep the society divided for as long as possible.

Curious choice to focus blame on the people investigating and not the people making literal death threats...

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Re: A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

#20

Did you do the same for this? https://wtop.com/dc/2020/05/dc-protests-of-george-floyds-dea...

  I am not going to pretend you are engaging in civilized discussion. You are comparing people protesting against a constant threat to their lives from law enforcement - ask any black parent about "the talk" - to people protesting losing an election fomented by lies.

  On one side you have a real issue impacting the life of millions of people daily, on the other you have an issue artificially created based on lies, falsehoods and misdirection.

  These are not even remotely similar events, not by any measure. The response to these events from law enforcement was not close, nor comparable.

  Stop this false equivalence.
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