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Re: A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

#21

Post by godelski »

commandlinefan wrote: post #8
lenitabinol wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it hard to understand why people are disgusted by him? If you can't acknowledge that, it's hard to have a conversation at all. His type of behavior and language brings out hate and revulsion in even the kindest people. If you don't get it, I don't know what to say. It has nothing to do with his politics or policy stances, it has to do with his behavior.

Disgusted? No, I really don't see it. He's a bit of (ok a lot of) a hot-head, and definitely not politically correct, but otherwise he's not that much different than past presidents besides actually saying what he's thinking.

Let's set politics aside and look at how Trump's behavior can be considered, as lenitabinol said, disgusting. I'm surprised this isn't apparent. You even note how he isn't politically correct. You don't understand how people don't like that? Or do you not understand that people don't think leaders should be tweeting out their random thoughts like an average person? You aren't being downvoted because echo chamber, you're being downvoted for either trolling or being dense.

But if that doesn't do it we can see things like:

- Making fun of a disabled person

- Saying Mexico is "not sending their best, but their worst" i.e. rapists and drug dealers.

- "Grab 'em by the pussy"

- Calling people dumb, ugly, or other demeaning terms on national television. Including world leaders.

- Hanging out with Epstein.

- Having difficult times answering softball questions like "Do you denounce White Nationalism?" Just say yes. Not "I don't know who you're talking about" not "Who?" Just say "I don't support White Nationalists." Full stop. Could even say "I don't support Nazis." or "I don't support the KKK." But just blabbing on makes people think he's dodging the question and not honest. He does this on many things, even when it is clear he isn't lying which makes people uncomfortable with him.

I can provide sources for all these things and many more, but it is pretty easy to find and all these things have made the national coverage many times over the last year so it is assumed that you're aware. What I don't understand is how you don't understand how someone might be offended by any single one of these events.

Re: A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

#22

Post by TheRealDunkirk »

tjoff wrote: post #10
jeffbee wrote: post #2

Pretty remarkable how easy it is to click your way to an insane spammer. For example the #1 inbound to Kamala Harris is some account with no followers or mentions, recently joined, posted the same reply to 600 different threads all on October 16th, liked all of its own posts, and has been dormant since. Not exactly a great contribution to the discourse.

How is that not automatically detected? Is there any evidence of any sort that any attempt to thwart things like this has even been attempted?

If they can omit explicit porn results from searches in real time for people who aren't logged in, they absolutely can automatically detect and shadowban obvious malfeasance like this. The question you have to ask yourself is why they don't.

Re: A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

#24

Post by pizza »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #3

Can anyone familiar with Twitter explain how people like Jeff Tiedrich, Eugene Gu, ToddlerTrump, TrumpOwO, etc, manage to be the first few responders to everything @realDonaldTrump tweets? (Edit) To expand on this, some of these accounts are clearly bots that just modify the text of the tweet. I can see how easy it would be to make these bots - but not how they manage to be the first responses so consistently. Surely…

Probably a few people working to be the first to reply for each account

Re: A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

#25

Post by beamatronic »

Goladus wrote: post #12
lenitabinol wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it hard to understand why people are disgusted by him? If you can't acknowledge that, it's hard to have a conversation at all. His type of behavior and language brings out hate and revulsion in even the kindest people. If you don't get it, I don't know what to say. It has nothing to do with his politics or policy stances, it has to do with his behavior.

His type of behavior and language brings out hate and revulsion in even the kindest people. From what I see, the hate and revulsion is brought out primarily by confirmation bias due to (a) subjective reporting on his behavior and language and (b) gaps in factual knowledge. I assume there are people who are legitimately repulsed by his behavior, but I never see people actually explain themselves clearly. They always e…

When he mocked the disabled reporter, that should have been the end of it.

Re: A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

#26

Post by rootusrootus »

Goladus wrote: post #16
commandlinefan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disgusted? No, I really don't see it. He's a bit of (ok a lot of) a hot-head, and definitely not politically correct, but otherwise he's not that much different than past presidents besides actually saying what he's thinking.

This post is being downvoted to protect the echo chamber. No dissent is allowed, even on an obviously subjective matter such as interpretation of a public figure's behavior.

We have reached a low place when 'grab em by the pussy' is open to subjective interpretation.

Re: A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

#27

Post by apta »

godelski wrote: post #21
commandlinefan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disgusted? No, I really don't see it. He's a bit of (ok a lot of) a hot-head, and definitely not politically correct, but otherwise he's not that much different than past presidents besides actually saying what he's thinking.

Let's set politics aside and look at how Trump's behavior can be considered, as lenitabinol said, disgusting. I'm surprised this isn't apparent. You even note how he isn't politically correct. You don't understand how people don't like that? Or do you not understand that people don't think leaders should be tweeting out their random thoughts like an average person? You aren't being downvoted because echo chamber, you…

> Having difficult times answering softball questions like "Do you denounce White Nationalism?" Just say yes.

He already explicitly did. But the left doesn't seem to comprehend and they keep asking it over and over. It's unbelievable really.

Re: A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

#28

Post by apta »

beamatronic wrote: post #25
Goladus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His type of behavior and language brings out hate and revulsion in even the kindest people. From what I see, the hate and revulsion is brought out primarily by confirmation bias due to (a) subjective reporting on his behavior and language and (b) gaps in factual knowledge. I assume there are people who are legitimately repulsed by his behavior, but I never see people actually explain themselves clearly. They always e…

When he mocked the disabled reporter, that should have been the end of it.

That's been disproven.

Re: A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

#29

Post by nick_gur »

godelski wrote: post #21
commandlinefan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disgusted? No, I really don't see it. He's a bit of (ok a lot of) a hot-head, and definitely not politically correct, but otherwise he's not that much different than past presidents besides actually saying what he's thinking.

Let's set politics aside and look at how Trump's behavior can be considered, as lenitabinol said, disgusting. I'm surprised this isn't apparent. You even note how he isn't politically correct. You don't understand how people don't like that? Or do you not understand that people don't think leaders should be tweeting out their random thoughts like an average person? You aren't being downvoted because echo chamber, you…

Quiet down negro, you're being too uppity

Re: A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

#30

Post by evanlivingston »

apta wrote: post #28
beamatronic wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When he mocked the disabled reporter, that should have been the end of it.

That's been disproven.

I tried looking up how this has been disproven but couldn't find anything. Can you link?
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