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Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
« Reply #1500 on: January 08, 2021, 09:53:51 PM »
reddit getting in on feeding frenzy  https://www.reddit.com/r/donaldtrump

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« Reply #1501 on: January 08, 2021, 09:58:06 PM »
2nd decent day in the last 4 years. Fuck Trump. Fuck his enablers. Fuck the people who popped up on this board to crow about him post election. Our country still sucks but that piece of shit and his posse who have been enabled for the last 4 years at least get one day of eating shit before they get back to their steady diet of racism and hate.

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« Reply #1502 on: January 08, 2021, 10:04:49 PM »
2nd decent day in the last 4 years. Fuck Trump. Fuck his enablers. Fuck the people who popped up on this board to crow about him post election. Our country still sucks but that piece of shit and his posse who have been enabled for the last 4 years at least get one day of eating shit before they get back to their steady diet of racism and hate.

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« Reply #1503 on: January 08, 2021, 10:11:56 PM »
Two questions, will this get any stupider and what are the chances of Trump fleeing to Panama in the next few weeks?
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« Reply #1504 on: January 08, 2021, 10:23:54 PM »
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« Reply #1505 on: January 08, 2021, 10:40:32 PM »
Seems like Twitter is just playing into Trump's hands by banning him. Just makes his supporters feel like he's telling the truth about this and the rest of his mad ravings.

Well, we tried the whole pandering to nutjobs to keep them placated for 4 years and it didn't work, so might as well just ban them from the public sphere all together really.
The time to act was when he was calling actual nazis marching in the streets "good people", not two days after he incited people to attack the parliament.

This is just performative bullshit from Twitter because they see the writing on the wall that they are going to be the ones taking a huge chunk of the blame for this (and rightfully so).

This remains the best take on Twitter's implicit consent to Trump and his followers:

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https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288
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« Reply #1506 on: January 08, 2021, 10:54:48 PM »
Seems like Twitter is just playing into Trump's hands by banning him. Just makes his supporters feel like he's telling the truth about this and the rest of his mad ravings.

Well, we tried the whole pandering to nutjobs to keep them placated for 4 years and it didn't work, so might as well just ban them from the public sphere all together really.
The time to act was when he was calling actual nazis marching in the streets "good people", not two days after he incited people to attack the parliament.

This is just performative bullshit from Twitter because they see the writing on the wall that they are going to be the ones taking a huge chunk of the blame for this (and rightfully so).

This remains the best take on Twitter's implicit consent to Trump and his followers:

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https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288

The best time to ban was before this happened.

The second best time is right now.

Regardless of Twitter's opportunism, it's still the right call regardless of timing or other context.

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« Reply #1507 on: January 08, 2021, 11:16:59 PM »
The president has all the methods in the world to communicate with people but he's ban evading and desperate for jack dorsey to take pity on him  :dead

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« Reply #1508 on: January 08, 2021, 11:42:17 PM »
This twitter thing is gonna be pretty funny until he orders seal team 6 to twitter HQ.

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« Reply #1509 on: January 08, 2021, 11:44:24 PM »
This twitter thing is gonna be pretty funny until he orders seal team 6 to twitter HQ.

Could even claim that Jack Dorsey is a terrorist, what with that beard and all  ;)

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« Reply #1510 on: January 08, 2021, 11:49:46 PM »
This twitter thing is gonna be pretty funny until he orders seal team 6 to twitter HQ.

Feels that at this point he couldn’t even ask that.

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« Reply #1511 on: January 08, 2021, 11:53:28 PM »
For some reason, I don't see any central or south American country taking in a disgraced US president fleeing after attempting a coup

High chances AMLO floated the idea to do it. The asshole  really wanted to be in Trump good side even when it was clear he lost.

Caudillos over democracy.

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« Reply #1512 on: January 09, 2021, 12:47:19 AM »
Honestly Section 230 is probably done for sure now. :shaq2

But the repercussions of that are going to be even worse for Republicans so it's hard to care :trumps

no...no this would have a massive effect on pretty much everything and everyone

this isn't just about social media

"no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"

students are working on a collaborative document, or have a small group chat, or freakin email each other, and someone says something another person doesn't like...suddenly the site hosting the document or email is liable

youtube suddenly gutted of billions of videos since they have no idea what blurb buried inside a random video is going to offend someone

redlettermedia has shit on all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons over the years, and now it's as if youtube itself is endorsing those statements as true



someone uploads a picture to imgur that says "dominion voting machines were rigged" and the caption at the top says "can you believe the audacity of these people to make these claims?"  guess what...the image itself can be hotlinked without the context of the caption, and imgur is hosting that image with false information on it



the internet would be utterly fucked sideways in every conceivable way
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« Reply #1516 on: January 09, 2021, 06:19:28 AM »


RIP king  :fbm
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« Reply #1517 on: January 09, 2021, 06:57:32 AM »
Was it for a specific tweet/cartoon? Whenever one of you would post one of his drawings in here, I always assumed it making fun of Trump supporters by pointing out how stupid and over the top they are, had no idea they were supposed to be political propaganda taken at face value.

Next you'll be telling me this isn't satire.


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« Reply #1518 on: January 09, 2021, 07:00:16 AM »
Was it for a specific tweet/cartoon? Whenever one of you would post one of his drawings in here, I always assumed it making fun of Trump supporters by pointing out how stupid and over the top they are, had no idea they were supposed to be political propaganda taken at face value.

Next you'll be telling me this isn't satire.

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Not it isn't

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« Reply #1519 on: January 09, 2021, 07:28:59 AM »
Is it like an autostereogram? All I see is a joke about how dumb Trump supporters are.

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« Reply #1520 on: January 09, 2021, 07:50:58 AM »
This convo is too deep and big brained for me to follow :titus

Trashy and nintex are next level thinkers to us plebs :snob
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« Reply #1521 on: January 09, 2021, 08:16:21 AM »
Here's someone who warned about this thing and kept a close eye on Trumpverse as it unfolded.
https://www.gq.com/story/man-predicted-capitol-coup-interview

Some interesting points, like how the Trumpists thought the election was in the bag because Trump told them he was ahead in California.

He also highlights how the people that came there to protest expected to be part of 'something bigger'. Some actual plan to change the election result or for the military to intervene.
They were sort of in a 'now what' situation once they realized Trump wasn't going to send in the troops or do anything else. They were certainly there to arrest and judge Pence, Pelosi etc. on his behalf though.
But they were surprised that once they breached the Capitol Trump didn't give them any specific order and told them to go home instead. We now know that while the Capitol was under siege Trump and Rudy called Senators to pressure them into delaying the whole thing.


https://twitter.com/elwasson/status/1347873848008597504
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« Reply #1522 on: January 09, 2021, 08:53:15 AM »
Merrick Garland is gonna get that ass as AG.

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« Reply #1524 on: January 09, 2021, 09:56:54 AM »



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Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
« Reply #1527 on: January 09, 2021, 11:06:18 AM »
Was it for a specific tweet/cartoon? Whenever one of you would post one of his drawings in here, I always assumed it making fun of Trump supporters by pointing out how stupid and over the top they are, had no idea they were supposed to be political propaganda taken at face value.

Next you'll be telling me this isn't satire.

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It was Ben Garrison. A bit off his rocker to say the least.

Though yeah we usually got a kick out of laughing at him.

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« Reply #1529 on: January 09, 2021, 12:01:39 PM »
Nintex you seem decent in any other interaction I have seen on this board but your fawning over these people betrays a pretty gross personality trait.

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« Reply #1531 on: January 09, 2021, 12:17:04 PM »
imagine being nintex

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« Reply #1532 on: January 09, 2021, 12:18:09 PM »
Nintex is great.
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« Reply #1534 on: January 09, 2021, 12:44:49 PM »
Nintex you seem decent in any other interaction I have seen on this board but your fawning over these people betrays a pretty gross personality trait.

A lot of trolls are like that. Not even saying it to disrespect Nintex, just saying.

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« Reply #1535 on: January 09, 2021, 12:50:14 PM »
I guess.  It's also that I have been here a long time and in that time I have been racist, fat-phobic, transphobic, among other thigns, but I have been improving over the course of a decade and part of that was being called out on poor behavior.  I don't think Nintex is a bad person but I do think he can be better.

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« Reply #1536 on: January 09, 2021, 12:59:50 PM »
Nintex is great.

It's true, but a great what.

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« Reply #1539 on: January 09, 2021, 01:53:10 PM »
Wait what's the gift? :lol :lol


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« Reply #1541 on: January 09, 2021, 02:12:29 PM »
Extra rich with how Trump tried to damage the USPS hahaha

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« Reply #1543 on: January 09, 2021, 02:19:36 PM »


lmao they're taking the piss on parler
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« Reply #1544 on: January 09, 2021, 02:21:26 PM »
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1347968971090366464

I tuned in to that livestream, literally the first thing I hear is the woman on stage saying "if anyone finds an envelope with 5 passwords in it, could you please hand it in so we can get it to the proper person".

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« Reply #1545 on: January 09, 2021, 02:28:49 PM »
https://twitter.com/PoliticoRyan/status/1347985963193167872

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The president is “ballistic,” a senior administration official said after Twitter permanently took down his account, citing the possibility that it would be used in the final 12 days of Trump’s presidency to incite violence. The official said Trump was “scrambling to figure out what his options are.”

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One White House official said there were initial internal discussions between White House aides and Trump of doing a “last farewell interview.” But, the official added, “I’m not sure if they’re going to come to fruition,” much to the official’s chagrin.

“I don’t want the lasting impression of this administration to be what happened at the Capitol,” the official said. “We have a lot of accomplishments of this administration that should be highlighted so that we can leave a good final impression.
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« Reply #1546 on: January 09, 2021, 02:34:22 PM »
free tickets to trumpcon 2021 ofc
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« Reply #1547 on: January 09, 2021, 02:39:49 PM »
the way that sentence was constructed  :lol

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The president is “ballistic,” (a senior administration official said after Twitter permanently took down his account,) citing the possibility that it would be used in the final 12 days of Trump’s presidency to incite violence. The official said Trump was “scrambling to figure out what his options are.”
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« Reply #1548 on: January 09, 2021, 02:47:39 PM »
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1347968971090366464

I tuned in to that livestream, literally the first thing I hear is the woman on stage saying "if anyone finds an envelope with 5 passwords in it, could you please hand it in so we can get it to the proper person".
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« Reply #1549 on: January 09, 2021, 03:16:42 PM »
Rudy should announce he's going to sue Twitter. I want to see that.
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« Reply #1551 on: January 09, 2021, 03:32:02 PM »
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1347922394497884167


 :badass


Lol I don't think I've ever read anything on Forbes.com that came across as truthful.
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« Reply #1552 on: January 09, 2021, 05:32:18 PM »
The president has all the methods in the world to communicate with people but he's ban evading and desperate for jack dorsey to take pity on him  :dead

No, see, Twitter is the only platform for presenting speech. If they ban you, that's basically making it so no one will ever see or hear you ever again. Not unlike Communist Russia.
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« Reply #1553 on: January 09, 2021, 06:53:09 PM »
Can't make a fortnite announcement if you can't download fortnite.

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« Reply #1554 on: January 09, 2021, 07:46:52 PM »
The president has all the methods in the world to communicate with people but he's ban evading and desperate for jack dorsey to take pity on him  :dead

No, see, Twitter is the only platform for presenting speech. If they ban you, that's basically making it so no one will ever see or hear you ever again. Not unlike Communist Russia.

Being fair, many of the bigger social platforms are actually colluding to actually ban him from their services (thought they are not exactly in the wrong to do it) so is not like has better options at social media beyond Parler.

Of course, being ultra fair, he has that megaphone called FoxNews still ready to go for the most part, so.  :yeshrug

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« Reply #1555 on: January 09, 2021, 08:12:00 PM »
Supposedly there were special forces secretly mixed in with the riot goons (as to why they were "let in"), and have confiscated Nancy Pelosi's laptop.  She's freaking out and pushing the impeachment HARD. :rofl

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« Reply #1556 on: January 09, 2021, 08:50:14 PM »


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personally I think they should have given him the boot long before now, but sure I can understand this argument too. I felt just the same as this video as recently as 2014 or so.
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« Reply #1557 on: January 09, 2021, 08:59:34 PM »
Twitter banning Trump is no different to any other news channel deciding they won't carry any words/audio/video of him. It's not censorship, it's editorial independence.

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However, if Twitter can decide to take editorial action to censor people, then aren't they essentially a news service or publisher and shouldn't they be subject to the same editorial standards?
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« Reply #1558 on: January 09, 2021, 10:06:46 PM »
Counterpoint - a lot of social progress has been made because of social media since it gives a voice to minorities.  It just happens that 1) bigots are also a minority that found a voice and 2) fast changes in social progress fueled a counter-reaction.  Twitter wasn't a mistake, it was treating bigoted speech, and opinions as fact as equally valid that was the mistake.  Also, I really hate how everyone has it out for social media but acts like Fox News is just something we have to live with. 

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« Reply #1559 on: January 09, 2021, 10:11:08 PM »
Jack should just admit twitter was a mistake and shut down the whole platform and go live in a hut in the Amazon or whatever weird things he does

People would instantly create twitter 2.0 so they can tell everyone about how happy they are that twitter is dead