Good, and frankly they should have been doing this sort of thing sooner.
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#22Wow. This man needs a lesson on how to deescalate a situation properly. Will this heavy handed approach really make people less angry? I doubt it..
He's not trying to deescalate. He's throwing gas on multiple fires.
Predictably. Anything for a diversion of what a screwed up government this is.
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#23Wow. This man needs a lesson on how to deescalate a situation properly. Will this heavy handed approach really make people less angry? I doubt it..
Jack or Trump?
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#24I'm a bit surprised that this fight with the POTUS doesn't have a stronger influence on Twitter's stock value.
He's not moving anywhere and any Twitter controversy gets more people to tweet about that controversy... Until he forces a significant part of his followers to leave, it's not a bad situation for Twitter to be in.
> Until he forces a significant part of his followers to leave, it's not a bad situation for Twitter to be in.
That would be even better for Twitter.
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#25I couldn't care less for the politics of the USA, but it is mildly amusing that twitter are trolling one of their most prominent users.
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#26The service that hosts the accounts of all branches of the US military, all major weapons contractors, all three letter agencies, and many foreign militaries, governments, and world leaders guilty of all manner of war crimes, and this is where they draw the line for violence. Really interesting.
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#27I said it yesterday and got downvotes, Twitter’s CEO decided to pick sides in the political battle so they should expect what’s coming to them.
I don't understand. He broke their TOS. They applied a punishment in line with their TOS.
Do heads of state somewhere not-stated to the public have some sort of social media diplomatic immunity?
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#28I said it yesterday and got downvotes, Twitter’s CEO decided to pick sides in the political battle so they should expect what’s coming to them.
Fact checking doesn't imply picking sides. Not fact checking does.
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#29I said it yesterday and got downvotes, Twitter’s CEO decided to pick sides in the political battle so they should expect what’s coming to them.
"them" who?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> when the looting starts, the shooting starts. What part of this isn't?
It doesn't unequivocally say that at all. It can reasonably be interpreted as: "once people are willing to break the law and start looting, it's not long before there are also people shooting" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
> It can reasonably be interpreted as: "once people are willing to break the law and start looting, it's not long before there are also people shooting"
That's definitely not it.
Walter Headley, Chief of Miami Police during the 1968 Republican National Convention. On the eve of the convention, he gave a press conference where he said this exact phrase. It wasn't an observation that crime begets more crime. It was a threat.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/08/07...