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

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

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Post by dsnr »

luma wrote: post #18
dsnr wrote: 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.

Ok, just make sure you record anyone who says something that you do not agree with. You never know when you might need it.

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

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Post by luma »

dsnr wrote: post #21
luma wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ok, just make sure you record anyone who says something that you do not agree with. You never know when you might need it.

If I say something publicly on an world-accessible platform, then sure go ahead and record it. I'm not sure I understand what problem you have with this.

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

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Post by celim307 »

luma wrote: post #23
dsnr wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, just make sure you record anyone who says something that you do not agree with. You never know when you might need it.

If I say something publicly on an world-accessible platform, then sure go ahead and record it. I'm not sure I understand what problem you have with this.

I think op is slowly starting to realize they might be the asshole, not the people calling them out on it

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

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Post by brynjar »

fabbari wrote: post #20
GreenHeuristics wrote: post #8

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, false…

Can I humbly make an observation?

I agree the two events are not equivalent. Nevertheless, I think the bar has to be set higher before deciding a person is not worth talking to.

"I am not going to pretend you are engaging in civilized discussion."

Are you sure you know this? I don't know who GreenHeuristics is, perhaps his comment is in good faith, perhaps not, I don't know. But his comment wasn't a mad rant, how ever much anyone may dislike it.

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

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Post by jfengel »

wukerplank wrote: post #16
dsnr wrote: 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.

It would have been interesting to be in the room where they decided that "unity" was going to be the word of the day. After four years (and much longer) of very explicit divisiveness, where the whole notion of "unity" would have been met with derision, the rapid turnaround is giving me whiplash.

I know it's probably not just one room where it happened, and in a lot of ways it's a pretty obvious strategy. Still, I just have to wonder if there was even a moment of self-reflection. "Do you think they'll be skeptical if our talking points are about unity in the immediate wake of accusing people of trying to steal an election, which we believed to the point of provoking violence? Nah."

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

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Post by twosdai »

https://github.com/twintproject/twint

This is a much more advanced OSINT tool which can provide you better information if you really want to search for tweets within a specific area, or around a specific timeframe.

Here is an example command which would give you any tweet containing the word trump within a 50Km radius of DC.

twint -g="38.8935755,-77.0846155,50km" -s "Trump"

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

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Post by [deleted] »

brynjar wrote: post #25
fabbari wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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, false…

Can I humbly make an observation? I agree the two events are not equivalent. Nevertheless, I think the bar has to be set higher before deciding a person is not worth talking to. "I am not going to pretend you are engaging in civilized discussion." Are you sure you know this? I don't know who GreenHeuristics is, perhaps his comment is in good faith, perhaps not, I don't know. But his comment wasn't a mad rant, how eve…

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