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Post by Tenoke »

javajosh wrote: post #310
_ZeD_ wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

following the wikipedia article I found https://www.avclub.com/twitter-releases-statement-confirming... "Twitter releases statement confirming it'll never ban Donald Trump"

Maybe. But there's probably a business model out there this is simply a Twitter clone that waits for the Trump account to move there, and bang, instant success.

There is and they (Gab) get an okay number of likes on every one of his posts promoting it. [0] Also Facebook is now well positioned to be his next platform if he moves off twitter.

0. https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1266347307391488002

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Post by dastx »

sansnomme wrote: post #314
quietthrow wrote: post #277

Once again! Bravo Jack and the Twitter team! Thank you taking a stand against bullying.

If you truly believe in what they are doing, then buy their stock and prop up the price, because it is plunging right now. Words alone are about as useful as clapping for healthcare workers.

Wouldn't call a 1 percent drop "plunging".

Regardless, stock comes back up. These are reputation points that will stay for a while.

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Post by throwlaplace »

devtul wrote: post #316
quietthrow wrote: post #277

Once again! Bravo Jack and the Twitter team! Thank you taking a stand against bullying.

Is the POTUS clearly inciting violence or is it another instance of people having a wild interpretation of what he said? I'm so tired of this dynamic that I don't even bother anymore.

really? wild interpretation? it's a weird construction that's widely known to have been used by the police chief during similar circumstances? how big does the donkey have to be before you pin the tail on it? i wager there could be a video of trump composing the tweet with a biography of the police chief in view and open to the page with those words and you'd still claim to doubt the intent.

it's exhausting having to take this kind of bad faith skepticism seriously.

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Post by ceejayoz »

stronglikedan wrote: post #319
quietthrow wrote: post #277

Once again! Bravo Jack and the Twitter team! Thank you taking a stand against bullying.

Now if only they'd give Kaepernick's tweet [0] equal treatment, to be even-handed. [0] https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1266046129906552832?s...

There’s such a thing as a peaceful revolution. Portraying this as similar to the President calling for shooting people is disingenuous.

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Post by dathinab »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #140
slg wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is using past violence as a threat of imminent violence while the other accounts you mentioned will generally reference violence indirectly or in the past tense. That is an important distinction.

He is the commander in chief. He has the capability to threaten violence. This tweet, while in bad taste IMO, was a threat to those who are planning to continue looting and burning buildings in Minneapolis. I’m not sure if you’ve seen the videos, but there are full scale riots. Rioters completely looted a Target and burned it nearly to the ground. Is “shooting” the answer to that? Probably not. And hopefully the Nati…

> He is the commander in chief. He has the capability to threaten violence.

Actually no, he doesn't have the capability to threaten institutionalised violence against US CITIZENS which might have or maybe want commit a crime which is not capital and don't even lead to to much jail time.

If he would have the right to do so he would be an authoritarian leader and the US no longer a democracy.

Even if the national guard is dispatched they can just arrest people, not shoot them down (except if that people try to shoot down the national guard, which they don't).

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Post by [deleted] »

chooseaname wrote: post #272
bilbo0s wrote: post #131

In fairness, Trump's tweets are not about actually doing anything, they are more about getting votes. So arguing the feasibility of suggestions outlined in a Trump tweet kind of misses the point.

This is my comment on the other HN thread about this: > The phrase was used by Miami's police chief, Walter Headley, in 1967, when he addressed his department's "crackdown on ... slum hoodlums," according to a United Press International article from the time. > Headley, who was chief of police in Miami for 20 years, said that law enforcement was going after “young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of…

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Post by michaeljohansen »

sansnomme wrote: post #314
quietthrow wrote: post #277

Once again! Bravo Jack and the Twitter team! Thank you taking a stand against bullying.

If you truly believe in what they are doing, then buy their stock and prop up the price, because it is plunging right now. Words alone are about as useful as clapping for healthcare workers.

Plunging is a strong word, but this is still an excellent point. Just bought the stock for support.
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