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Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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gspetr wrote: post #150
oblio wrote: post #68

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All of America's extreme leftists would probably fit in a 200sqm hall, with room to spare. Why worry about a statistical anomaly? Just because they have Tumblr accounts? :) (For the downvoters, prove me wrong, how many votes did a far left party get in US elections in the past 20 years? Does the US even have a far left party? :) )

Can you fit 200 000 subs of https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/ in a 200sqm hall? Can you fit all his voters there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_sanders His wiki mentions "socialist" 35 times. Is that not leftist enough for you? There's circumstantial evidence that he was even a Stalinist at one point: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sanders+stalinist+kibbutz

You are aware that outside of the US "socialist" isn't quite as pejorative as you seem to think it is? The mainstream center-left parties in many European countries have the word "socialist" or a variant thereof in their names.

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by andybak »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #178
lsmarigo wrote: post #142

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The narrative you describe in your post is largely fabricated to rally, enrage and indoctrinate individuals. It's disheartening how deeply the "us vs. them" mindset dominates our politics. You used the term "they" or "them" seven times in your short post. Seven. Who are they? A few trolls on twitter does not equal a meaningful movement. Categorizing half of the American populace based on the views/actions of fringe n…

"Categorizing half of the American populace based on the views/actions of fringe nutjobs is absurd" 1) Lena Dunham has called for the extinction of white men. 2) The President of the United States then sent his teen daughter to do an internship with this "fringe nutjob". Sorry, this crazy, hateful bigot is not "fringe", she's squarely in the mainstream of the modern Democratic Party. They need to fix that if they're…

> Lena Dunham has called for the extinction of white men

Had to Google that. Is there more than the 30 second animation? Because as a straight white male, I didn't feel particularly victimised by it.

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by Turing_Machine »

andybak wrote: post #182
Turing_Machine wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Categorizing half of the American populace based on the views/actions of fringe nutjobs is absurd" 1) Lena Dunham has called for the extinction of white men. 2) The President of the United States then sent his teen daughter to do an internship with this "fringe nutjob". Sorry, this crazy, hateful bigot is not "fringe", she's squarely in the mainstream of the modern Democratic Party. They need to fix that if they're…

> Lena Dunham has called for the extinction of white men Had to Google that. Is there more than the 30 second animation? Because as a straight white male, I didn't feel particularly victimised by it.

It doesn't matter whether you, personally, feel "victimised" by it. Most participants in Internet lynch mobs don't actually feel personally threatened by whatever it is they're screaming about.

If she had done that to any other identifiable group, she would have been hounded from the public sphere.

Instead, she gets rewarded with some personal time with the President's daughter. Do you think Trump, or Bush II, or Bush I, or Reagan, or Nixon... would have sent their child off to intern with someone who called for the extinction of, say, black people? Nope.

And no, that's not the bottom of her lunacy, not by many, many levels.

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by sneak »

stale2002 wrote: post #168
sneak wrote: post #81

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It turns out that humans have memories and reputation is important. Not to invoke Godwin, but Hitler’s opinions on mundane things will always be filtered through the lens of what he did and said otherwise. It is the same for all people. If you don’t want to damage your reputation, either publish your unpopular opinions anonymously, keep them to yourself, or figure out why your views result in others wanting to threat…

Is firing people for which party they vote for REALLY a war that you want to get into? Do you really believe that only Republicans would be targeted? If this stuff becomes normalized the Left needs to understand that there are a whole lot of powerful conservatives in the world, and that left leaning people will be hurt just as much as right leaning people. Attacks on open discourse, and freedom of thought hurt EVERYO…

Why do you think that I think this would target republicans?

Both “right-leaning” and “left-leaning” people in the United States pretty clearly quality as violence-supporting fuckheads, so I am fine with this being applied universally.

Re: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account

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Post by gspetr »

andybak wrote: post #181
gspetr wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you fit 200 000 subs of https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/ in a 200sqm hall? Can you fit all his voters there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_sanders His wiki mentions "socialist" 35 times. Is that not leftist enough for you? There's circumstantial evidence that he was even a Stalinist at one point: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sanders+stalinist+kibbutz

You are aware that outside of the US "socialist" isn't quite as pejorative as you seem to think it is? The mainstream center-left parties in many European countries have the word "socialist" or a variant thereof in their names.

Yes, but we can't have a meaningful discussion if we disregard Occam's razor (If the man calls himself a socialist and has done so for decades, then that's what he is) and go into the "No true Scotsman" territory instead.
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