'Trump's phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" is an unattributed quote of Walter Headley, Miami's police chief in 1967. It was a threat to citizens who were upset that police had terrorized a black teenager by holding him over a bridge.' (https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1266246092393336838)
Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
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Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#62Wow. 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..
The National Guard would go to stop violence, wouldn't it? Pretty interesting how people even here try to invert the situation for political reasons.
You tell me, he quite literally says the military is with him and ready to shoot when people start looting.
Please tell me how I am inverting the situation? Or should I use your translation book to make sense of his tweets?
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#63This seems like a dubious foundation for Twitter to start with. If Trump controls the National Guard there is a definite public interest in knowing when he is likely to deploy the National Guard. It'd be headline news after the fact; it should be telegraphed beforehand.
Trump might be bluffing, but Twitter can't possibly know.
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#64I 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.
what's coming to them? Is it violence? That's how I often here the phrase "get what's coming to you" used.
Perhaps you spend too much time around violent people?
The phrase is the equivalent of “reaping what you sow”.
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#65I find it clever that Twitter is not deleting the tweets, but simply adding their opinions about it.
I don't know if you can call "censure" when your messages are still visible to the public, but the "editor-that-is-not-really-an-editor-but-sort-of" simply adds a banner saying "yeah, sure, right."
I can't wait for Trump to protest the flagging, and Twitter to respond that "flagging tweets while letting them visible" is just expressing their free speech. Surely Trump supporters are all in favor of free speech in a free country, right ?
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#66If Twitter sucess to fight for the truth without exposing bias they will be the most remarkable heroes of the 2001 century and could begin a whole change of behavior of websites regarding fake news and hate speech
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#67Wow. 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..
The National Guard would go to stop violence, wouldn't it? Pretty interesting how people even here try to invert the situation for political reasons.
Wouldn't they cause violence?
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#68For anyone who doesn't want to click, Twitter quarantined (you can click "view" to see it, however engagement is disabled) a Presidential tweet in which he calls on a mayor to "get a city under control", threatened to send in the national guard, said the military is behind the governor, and said that if there is difficulty they will assume control. His specific reference to violence occurred at the end the tweet, which he ended saying "Any difficulty, and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!"
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#69I 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.
Sounds like maybe you should take the hint. It's not "taking sides" to point out that you're glorifying violence if you as the president are threatening to deploy military force against protestors.
Sending police to stop violence is "glorifying violence"? How exactly?
Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
#70Time for Trump to use Mastodon.
Twitter was 'kind of' dying before Trump. Now its a pretty nice place with people to follow (Some sort of network effect?). But its too far from being open, requires phone number, lacks 'RSS' and etc.
I wish he moved to Mastodon. Decentralized, open source. It only needs users