Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
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#422Is this Jack's entry into the 2024 race for potus?
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#423I support this ban.
I’m a physician. In addition to this president inciting a riot, this president and his supporters are complicit in using social media to promote unscientific, self-serving views that strike at the health of my patients and adversely affect American healthcare in general.
Enough is enough.
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#424The real danger of this is that this type of action only reinforces the MAGA camp and pushes them to extreme counter-actions.
That's 74 million Americans with a large portion of them shooting guns, who feel victimized and have nothing to lose.
I'm already hearing a huge spike in the number of private / chartered jets leaving United States. I think they know what's coming next and they don't want to stick around. Many of them have begun moving their assets abroad since the beginning of 2020 as they weren't sure if Biden would be president and raise taxes across the board.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat from Missouri:
“We ask it in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and (the) God known by many names, many different faiths,” he said. “Amen, and Awomen.”
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#425Tough situation for Twitter to be in, since they are now effectively making a judgement that every other world leaders tweets are OK. IMO they should have banned him on Wednesday, and justified it by saying he incited the riot. Banning him because the latest tweets can be interpreted as inciting violence in the future is a lot harder to consistently apply, especially since my reading of the latest tweets doesn't really seem like they are inciting violence at all.
Not sure how you can ban Trump, and then allow leaders like Khamenei to stay on the platform.
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#427When /r/the_donald got booted off reddit they got together and created https://thedonald.win/ . All this action from twitter will do is create an opportunity for a different or new site to host trump's comments. And for many people, and maybe someday the majority of people, that new site may be more trustworthy than twitter.
Didn't they create that website before they got banned?
Yes, long before. /r/t_d was pretty much dead at the point it was banned and the ban was pretty meaningless. Reddit gave them plenty of warnings that made it easy for them to figure out what was going to happen, since they've decided to ignore those warnings.
Not the case with /r/donaldtrump, which was banned a day or two ago.
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#428After reading the reasoning, I'm afraid to tweet how I really feel about things now. (seriously.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
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#42974 million voters. This is not going to play out well. There's really no coming back from this moment, the technocratic elite have changed American democracy forever. Edit: I mean this in the way Snowden tweeted yesterday, it will be interesting how this plays out for better or worse, but it is a monumental policy shift that will be a date marked in history books.
> the technocratic elite have changed American democracy forever
The president has spent weeks trying to delegitimize the results of a democratic election, culminating yesterday by inciting a mob to de-rail the ratifying of the results, but it’s the banning of said president from a social media site that has changed American democracy forever. Right.
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#430Comparing today's media, to the media of old - where they colluded to hide FDR couldn't walk because of the shame/and attacks it'd lead to now, where Tech companies overtook print media and now themselves control the pitchforks and direct anger at the masses. 1984 Two minutes of hate is real, so very real, and it's quite sad how most people welcomed this into the world. I've deleted my social media, twitters years be…
>I hold no opinion on Trump,
Everyone has an opinion about Trump. Are you too afraid to say yours? I'm asking in good faith here - not trolling.