Trump Blasts 'Trending' Section On Twitter: 'Really Ridiculous, Illegal, and, of Course, Very Unfair!' (thehill.com) 354
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: President Trump blasted Twitter's "trending" section in a Monday tweet, calling it "really ridiculous, illegal, and, of course, very unfair!" "So disgusting to watch Twitter's so-called 'Trending', where sooo many trends are about me, and never a good one," Trump posted. "They look for anything they can find, make it as bad as possible, and blow it up, trying to make it trend," he added.
The president's relationship with Twitter, where he often turns to speak directly to supporters, has grown more contentious in recent months. The social media platform put warnings and fact checks on two of Trump's posts in May about mail-in voting, saying the tweets contained "potentially misleading information." Twitter also added an advisory to one of Trump's June tweets, which threatened demonstrators who want to create an "autonomous zone" in Washington, D.C. The advisory said the tweet broke Twitter's rules about abusive behavior and threatening violence. The president sought to fight back in May, issuing an executive order intended to strip social media platforms of certain legal protections, though experts say the order is largely toothless and stands on shaky legal ground.
The president's relationship with Twitter, where he often turns to speak directly to supporters, has grown more contentious in recent months. The social media platform put warnings and fact checks on two of Trump's posts in May about mail-in voting, saying the tweets contained "potentially misleading information." Twitter also added an advisory to one of Trump's June tweets, which threatened demonstrators who want to create an "autonomous zone" in Washington, D.C. The advisory said the tweet broke Twitter's rules about abusive behavior and threatening violence. The president sought to fight back in May, issuing an executive order intended to strip social media platforms of certain legal protections, though experts say the order is largely toothless and stands on shaky legal ground.
Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Insightful)
Nothing else. If they find tons of bad stuff, then maybe there _is_ tons of bad stuff? What a failed human being...
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Informative)
He invented a plan to throw out a pitch at a baseball game because he was jealous of the attention Fauci was getting. It's simply insane.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0... [nytimes.com]
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Funny)
He invented a plan to throw out a pitch at a baseball game because he was jealous of the attention Fauci was getting. It's simply insane.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0... [nytimes.com]
Hey, hey, let's be fair here. Like any responsible president, Trump also cancelled his upcoming first pitch appearance so that he could focus on ignoring the Covid pandemic.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Interesting)
I do not agree, he is not ignoring the pandemic, he's obsessing over it. He and his alleged administration simply have no idea what to do about it.
His reason is something like this: if I do nothing, then it is someone else's fault (Chinese, Democratic governors, whatever...). However, if I do something and it fails, then I look even worse. If I do something and it succeeds, then I'm a genius....now if only I could think of something to do that doesn't make my base think I'm taking the pandemic seriously after I told them it was fake news. Damn, I ain't got squat. Okay, according to OUR data, the pandemic, which really doesn't exist, is getting better! I've put my best people on it...Jared Kushner, Mike Pence, Dr. Phil, etc.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Insightful)
I do not agree, he is not ignoring the pandemic, he's obsessing over it. He and his alleged administration simply have no idea what to do about it.
His reason is something like this: if I do nothing, then it is someone else's fault (Chinese, Democratic governors, whatever...). However, if I do something and it fails, then I look even worse. If I do something and it succeeds, then I'm a genius....now if only I could think of something to do that doesn't make my base think I'm taking the pandemic seriously after I told them it was fake news. Damn, I ain't got squat. Okay, according to OUR data, the pandemic, which really doesn't exist, is getting better! I've put my best people on it...Jared Kushner, Mike Pence, Dr. Phil, etc.
No, he is ignoring the pandemic. He is obsessing over how people think he is handling the pandemic. He's all PR, no substance, just like any reality TV persona.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Insightful)
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Or, really, any Jersey shore conman. Which, we really need to remember, that's literally what he is.
Not a very good one, though. Any good con-man with $400M seed money (adjusted for inflation) would actually be stinking rich now and would not need to hide his tax-returns.
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Trump is nearly synonymous with Failing in Atlantic City. That makes him a Jersey Shore Con Man.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:4, Insightful)
I do not agree, he is not ignoring the pandemic, he's obsessing over it. He and his alleged administration simply have no idea what to do about it.
I think they have a pretty good idea of what to do, but he doesn't like the answer so he refuses to accept it.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Insightful)
I do not agree, he is not ignoring the pandemic, he's obsessing over it. He and his alleged administration simply have no idea what to do about it.
I think they have a pretty good idea of what to do, but he doesn't like the answer so he refuses to accept it.
This (why post anon - it's pushing down what's a completely sensible answer). The answer has been clear since February when the WHO stated it. Clearer even earlier if you listened to Taiwan:
You switch on and off these measures to ensure that the level of infection is constantly falling. If infections go below about 1 in a million you can almost completely stop them except for mask wearing and social distancing in indoor public spaces and ensuring you have an ongoing widespread random and entry testing program.
Trump does not have complete powers to enforce all of the above in all situations but he doesn't need them. He can say that this is his standard and encourage all states to follow it with money and support. Trump can likely enforce restrictions on inter-state travel for those that do not follow a standard at least as good as this. He can insist on quarantine of people coming into the US or travelling from a state which does not follow these standards.
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I do not agree, he is not ignoring the pandemic, he's obsessing over it. He and his alleged administration simply have no idea what to do about it.
Pretty much. Also, the idea that this is not a game and he may be indirectly responsible for 100k casualties or so now (and counting) by his actions (compared to what other countries with somewhat competent leadership have achieved) is probably way beyond his mental capabilities. Of course, one Donald winning an election is way more important than 100k lives. Makes me think this guy does not understand honor or duty or responsibility at all.
He tried to ignore it (Score:3)
Trump did everything he could to make us pretend the Corona virus isn't a thing. But the bodies keep piling up, the hospitals are full to the point where Texas has death panels [theguardian.com] and even mild cases of the virus have been linked to brain damage [cnn.com], to say nothing of the 20% hospitalization rate and the long term health effects for that 20%.
Trump tried, oh God he tried. But you can o
Re:What should be done? (Score:5, Insightful)
Please tell us, what should be done about it?
Federally mandated masking and distancing rules, federal guidelines for what qualifies for states to reopen and in what stages/phases, as well as reclosure criteria. A federally coordinated contact tracing program (since, you know, people can move around from state to state), federal coordinating for states to get PPE instead of leaving it at a free for all like they did at the beginning of the outbreak, have covid briefings led by doctors and not politicians, not having your surrogates attacking and undermining the qualified people whose job it is to advise and manage the outbreak, not trying to force schools to reopen by withholding funds are announcing plans that would inevitably divert federal school dollars from public schools to private religious schools ("sending the money with the student"), etc.
Done in other countries (Score:5, Insightful)
Federally mandated masking and distancing rules, federal guidelines for what qualifies for states to reopen and in what stages/phases, as well as reclosure criteria. A federally coordinated contact tracing program (since, you know, people can move around from state to state), federal coordinating for states to get PPE instead of leaving it at a free for all like they did at the beginning of the outbreak, have covid briefings led by doctors and not politicians,
...add in "federal survey of the extra available hospital capacity (extra ICU beds openings, state of preparedness of underground emergency hospitals, etc.) which BTW reached the conclusion that we can afford to take extra patient from neighbouring countries", an you'd be nicely describing what some other federally organized countries have done during the pandemic (such as CH, and I suspect [but haven't actively checked] that it was probably the case in DE too).
Re:What should be done? (Score:4, Insightful)
>> Federally mandated masking and distancing rules,
>So, a medical police state?
Hell man, by that definition we've ALWAYS lived in a police state. Just try walking down the street without wearing pants - and those are purely cosmetic, of no real benefit to anyone else. Whereas wearing a mask saves other people's health and lives if you don't know you're infected (and most people won't)
Nudity is not illegal in Seattle or London (Score:4, Interesting)
In Seattle and many other cities it is not technically illegal to be nude in public if it's not sexual. Really! Also nudity for political expression, such as a nude protest to get media attention, falls under political speech which receives the highest 1st Ammendment protections. We have a nude bicycle ride here every year for the summer solstice and have for years.
That said ... Mask up motherfuckers!
Re:What should be done? (Score:5, Insightful)
Indeed. Fascinating how some people see "police state" in face-masks, but not in unmarked GeStaPo goons vanishing people off the streets.
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To do what literally every other sane country is doing, and what the US has done historically going back to the pilgrims. Quarantine measures, social distancing, mandated by law and authorized by the constitution, and where available, vaccinations.
But no. The Trump administration had to try and be differenct and now there is a catastrophe brewing with the potential for death only rivalled by smallpox.
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To do what literally every other sane country is doing, and what the US has done historically going back to the pilgrims. Quarantine measures, social distancing, mandated by law and authorized by the constitution, and where available, vaccinations.
But no. The Trump administration had to try and be differenct and now there is a catastrophe brewing with the potential for death only rivalled by smallpox.
Fortunately, no. It seems infections per day are stagnating around 65k/day, probably because at least some people start to be careful at these numbers. With a 0.6% death rate (achievable with good medical care, with collapse of the medial system at least 10x that), that would make an expected 400 Coivd-19 deaths per day as soon as deaths have caught up. Unfortunately, the US seems to have more a 3% death rate (my estimation from the reference below at the time before infections went up again) and that makes
Re:What should be done? (Score:5, Informative)
> So, a medical police state?
Only for people too stupid to agree to follow sensible medical guidelines, or to understand that personal freedoms in the US stop when they risk harm to others. Are you free to steal someone else's hard-earned money or property? No. How about knocking someone in the head with a baseball bat? Nope. What about yelling "Fire!" in a crowded building? Still no. How about stealing money from people through fraud, misleading, or more subtle manipulation (e.g. insider trading)? No. Spreading a pandemic through willful ignorance would have an impact that would put all of those others to shame.
Constitutionally protected freedoms have limits, and those limits are (usually) defined by how one person's desired freedom impacts other people. Even the US had leprosy colonies they forced citizens to live in to prevent the disease from spreading:
https://www.history.com/news/l... [history.com]
If you think the US government doesn't have the right to curtail freedoms over major health issues or pandemics like this, or that it hasn't done so before, think again. If Trump wants to make this country great again (or even just keep it from falling apart on his watch), he needs to actually man up and take some decisive action. He tries so hard to make everyone think he's a tough guy, and he fails to miserably at it.
Re:What should be done? (Score:4, Insightful)
Trump has been clear that it's time for states to reopen. Some states have, some haven't.
That's not a guideline on qualifications. That's an emotional reaction. There's no science behind it. "I'm sick of the states being closed" isn't a (valid) reason.
It does appear to be a valid reason for those with simple minds though. Remember Trump is basically failed his education and his voters are of the same quality. If you do not understand basic principles of physical reality like cause and effect, you may well think "I want xyz" is a valid evaluation of the state of things.
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Re: What should be done? (Score:4, Interesting)
This would have allowed the bandwidth to trace to be shared between the states, as things settled down in the north east they could be moved to the southwest. Since (hopefully) not everywhere will experience big spikes at once less overall resources could be used to help control things.
Public display of best practices as a show of solidarity couldn't have hurt either.
At this point I'd still say working on a federal contact tracing plan would be great. Focus on FL, AZ, TX and CA right now, but be ready to shift back to other states.
Things are more under control than they were a couple of months ago, look at what Germany, S Korea, and even Vietnam did, and emulate that.
Outcomes have been witnessed, we can actually look at them, learn, and respond better than any of those countries did with their lessons learned (though obviously we're behind in the actual handling of it in an absolute timeline).
Re:What should be done? (Score:5, Insightful)
Please tell us, what should be done about it?
Why bother? People have been telling you since February what to do. You and your fellow republicans haven't listened so far so why would you now?
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It would be more accurate to say it's one platform he *appears* to have delivered on - he promised the numbers go up, the numbers go up. That the same would have happened regardless of any action he took doesn't matter much to the voters, or to his ego. Plus a lot of his economic policies are short term.
I was just trying to speculate on Trump's motivations, and why forcing an economic recovery is such an overwhelming priority for him.
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Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Informative)
I am totally baffled by the sudden conservative backlash against Fauci. He's been staying out of politics, never bad mouthing anyone not even the president, and yet he gets turned on. He's being turned in to the demon who has shut down the schools even though he has no such power, the feds don't even have that power, and he's only giving advice. Now he gets lambasted by prominent conservatives because the 79 year old can't throw a baseball over home plate. I even have some facebook friends who haven't posted in months and who've never posted anything political resharing posts critical of him. It's amazing what people will do when Trump's ego feels slightly bruised. You can forgive Trump for being a man child with a personality disorder who can't help himself, but the toadying around him is repulsive.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Insightful)
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Enough people will be concerned about the virus to have a substantial impact on the economy whatever the government does (mobility rates dropped dramatically before any mandates to shelter in place).
The best thing for capitalism and the economy is to dramatically reduce the number of people with the virus (which was done to a point in the US, and quite well in much of the world), and then to have coordinated contact tracing to keep l
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Simply by existing, he makes Trump look like the idiot he is. Therefore he must be destroyed.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Insightful)
Because he tells the truth.
Because he's educated.
Because he gives out facts.
Because he doesn't play politics.
Because he speaks well.
Because he leads by example [sciencemag.org].
The list goes on and on. Fauci is the literal opposite of what conservatives want.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, at his core, Fauci is a man of Science. That means he places facts and reality over political considerations when it really matters because he actually understands that physical reality does not bow to politics. And that is diametrically at odds with the world-view fuckups like Trump have. I mean, if Trump had not got so much money from his father that it was really difficult to waste it all (he seems to have managed anyways, just took a long time), he would never have amounted to anything. Trump would probably not even have managed to get a college-degree. The guy is borderline illiterate.
There is no bridging such a gap. Trump essentially has to bow to Fauci, because Trump has nothing to offer. It is like a cave-man against a rocket-scientist. And that, like any Dunning-Kruger far-left case, is not something Trump is even equipped to understand. One of the absolute core requirements for a good leader is a real understanding of one's own limits. And that is likely why Trump never had it in him to be a good leader.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Insightful)
The only people in the streets agitating for a race war are the police and feds - the U.S. military counterinsurgency manual (FM-32 I believe, available on archive.org) specifically advises *against* attempting to crack down on widespread public protests - the iron fist always accomplishes the exact opposite of suppression, building public sympathy and support and priming it to develop into a full-blown insurgency, for which you need to be ready to commit for a *minimum* of six years. And that'd be ugly - potentially millions dead, and tens of millions displaced.
The protestors are protesting racist police violence - and even if you don't think the violence is actually racist, you've got to be effing blind to not recognize how the "Drug War" has militarized police and increased violence and other abuse for over half a century. Meanwhile all the solutions BLM, etc. are proposing are pretty much exactly what we'd want to do to reverse that trend. Maybe it's really just a few bad apples on the force, but one bad apple spoils the bunch, and that's obviously happened with the "blue shield" mentality that means bad apples get protected by everyone, rather than having the scum who abuse that sacred trust being thrown out on the street and guaranteed to never work in law enforcement again, which should be the *minimum* solution to anyone who abuses their authority so badly. Nobody abuses power just once.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Insightful)
The irony of the federal intrusion into Portland is that the arrival of these federal officers actually made the situation worse. In addition the GOP has always advocated against the use of "jack booted" federal officers interfering in local issues.
But with Trump the GOP has embraced the use of federal officers who weren't requested by the locals and deployed these swat type units to attack peaceful protestors because of a handful of agitators. In fact these jackbooted federal officers have gone so far as to wear no identifying uniforms and are snatching people off the street.
Had this occurred during ANY other administration the GOP would be up in arms. But Trump does it and every value of the GOP is thrown out the window and jack booted federal officers invading our cities are embraced. It's unbelievable how quickly the GOP has thrown out every value they've held for last 80 years.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Interesting)
What a failed human being...
Look up the clinical definition of "narcissist":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
That's Trump to a 'T'.
Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score:5, Insightful)
I love it when dumb people try to defend Trump. Thanks for the laugh this morning!
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I love it when dumb people try to defend Trump. Thanks for the laugh this morning!
And then you look at how many dumb people there are and that they are allowed to vote. And that they brought Trump into power and may do so again. And this stops being funny very fast.
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Orange fan sad.
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Given that Trump is now behind Biden in Texas, which is probably the single reddest state in the nation, if Trump won in a landslide, it would be undeniable proof that the election was rigged, and the far left posters would demand (and probably get) a constitutional convention to throw out our whole federal system of government and start over from scratch.
Watch Trump talk. (Score:5, Interesting)
Don't watch Trump talk, read it. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Don't watch Trump talk, read it. (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously. If you read what Trump says verbatim, without his cadence and charisma to cover up his shortcomings, it's insane.
His cadence improves his words? I can't stand to listen to the man because I hate his speaking style.
His charisma? To quote Ford Prefect, "he's got all the sex appeal of a road accident." I'm stunned anyone thinks otherwise. Go figure.
If you watched his reality TV show (Score:3)
That TV show is the part everybody misses
Re:Don't watch Trump talk, read it. (Score:4, Interesting)
Seriously. If you read what Trump says verbatim, without his cadence and charisma to cover up his shortcomings, it's insane.
Cadence and charisma? That's one thing I will never understand. That anybody thinks Trump possesses more than miniscule quantities of public speaking ability or charisma. Yes reading his words verbatim makes it worse, especially if the transcription includes all the filler words and monosyllables, but listening to him is plenty bad too. He's a terrible public speaker. His cadence is bizarre at the best of times, his volume control is almost completely arbitrary, his emphasis shows up in weird places in sentences, and his ad libbed repetition of phrases when he's using a teleprompter make a hash out of any cadence the speechwriter was attempting to put in. Basically he has all the symptoms of a bullshit artist in full cry, a type of speaker I learned to recognize as an early teen, dealing with my parents' landlord. I don't even have to focus on the words to know it's bullshit. His delivery says, "Every word of this is bullshit," to anyone who knows the type.
It's called a "Gish Gallop" (Score:4, Interesting)
Well, leave then. (Score:5, Insightful)
As a conservative, I have to ask,
"What the fuck, Trump?! Leave Twitter, already. There are alternatives. All the journalists will follow you, and that will hit Twitter where it really hurts. . . reputational importance."
I can only figure that he and his campaign think that the "Twitter Fights" will "energize the base". He should know. At this point it doesn't. A true conservative understands that you look to yourself for help first, and Trump can just fix this all himself by switching to Parley or one of the other competitors. He be seen as much stronger if he'd do that, instead of the constant whining.
Re:Well, leave then. (Score:5, Insightful)
The problem is that Trump isn't a Conservative. At best he's a reactionary, but I don't think he possesses a coherent enough world view to even be able to say he's that. He's just a self-entitled old man who has never really had to lift a finger his entire life, and has spent most of that life in a world of affluence and entitlement that he somehow just expects that the world is supposed to function as he decrees.
Let's face it. Most Republican lawmakers want him gone. A few establishment Republicans like Romney openly want the man to lose, while I suspect many more, who need to look like they're onboard to satisfy the base, privately just want him to go away. Biden, Democrat that he is, is actually a lot closer to a conservative candidate than Trump will ever be.
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The problem is that Trump isn't a Conservative. At best he's a reactionary
Looking at the GOP's platform [gop.com], what's the difference?
Constitutionality (Score:3)
"A Rebirth of Constitutional Government"
I think Trump's most famous quote is, as president, he can do whatever he wants. When you are sworn in to office as president, your oath isn't to protect the citizens, or help the needy, or uphold the rule of law. It's to defend the constitution. That's the president's main job, to defend the constitutional rights of the citizens of the US. I don't think Trump cares too much about the constitution. Like many presidents, his main concern is how to get around the consti
Re:Well, leave then. (Score:5, Insightful)
Agreed. He's not conservative so I was baffled when he started pulling ahead in the primaries, and then amazed when he won the nomination, then dumbfounded when republicans switched staces and rallied around him then accused those who didn't as not being real conservatives. Trump is not fiscally conservative, and he's not socially conservative. He doesn't fit into any political ideology except populism, using the divide and conquer strategy from within.
Re:Well, leave then. (Score:4, Insightful)
No.
He is what conservative is now in the USA - and likely will be for quite a while now.
Conservative never meant the same thing outside the US than it meant inside the US - so why can't it just change based on power dynamics?
It can - and it does, every generation.
This generation though, it turned into, well, Trump - Trump as the ideal, Trump as the goal, Trump as the justification. Every other thing was abandoned - and it's going to be hell to try and redefine it to something coherent afterward, if that's what is important at all.
The reason of course was to piss off your enemies, which I suppose worked. But now that Trump IS conservatism, the only next move will be to pick a son to shift ideals towards, like with George W. Bush (or Kim Jong Il).
That'll be a fascinating puzzle.
Ryan Fenton
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Yes, indeed. Also, now the stakes are much higher. When Trump was just some real estate magnate, running around and dealing with buildings and casinos, he could make shit up, and the repercussions were on him, his company, and the people who were associated somehow with the properties. Anyone who he employed had a duty to him and his companies, or
Re:Well, leave then. (Score:5, Informative)
Remember, Trump's coming out into the public policy arena was way back in 1989 when he put out a full page ad in multiple newspapers demanding the death penalty for the Central Park Five, four of whom were juveniles, all of whom were later determined to be innocent. This is classic Trump: no knowledge of the case, yet insists that the whole city knows his opinions on the matter, demands an over-the-top law and order sentence, and he ends up getting it wrong. He has never apologized for this.
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More than not apologized, after they were found innocent he continued to say they should be executed because he was "sure they were guilty of something"
Almost as though he was more interested in killing black people than justice - you'd almost expect to discover his father was a member of the KKK or something...
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Re:Well, leave then. (Score:5, Informative)
As it turns out, conservative is not far right. And people with an R next to their name are only just now starting to figure it out. You can either be Progressive, Conservative, or Regressive. Being conservative means maintaining the status quo as much as possible and only expanding or moving forward when it benefits the most people possible. We're at a point now where a large number of people in the higher ranks of government want to move it all backward and are no longer hiding it.
Re: Well, leave then. (Score:4, Insightful)
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You are correct. Both have soaring budget deficits as a direct result of cutting taxes on businesses and the 1% while at the same time increasing government spending.
Both have increased the size of government.
Both have increased the power of government over the people.
Both have been involved in constitutional scandals though only one was impeached.
Both violate the separation of Church and State.
I'm
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As twitter, I'd probably kick him off. His constant threats against twitter themselves makes me think hosting him is a fundamental threat to their business in the first place. Why give someone a pulpit inside my business to scream how they're going to destroy my business? Seems like a weird risk to take.
Re:Well, leave then. (Score:4, Insightful)
What Twitter cares about is eyeballs. And Trump brings them aplenty.
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Seriously, why hasn't he moved to Parler like most of the other Conservative media has? Complaining about Liberal bias on Silicon Valley run tech sites is passe now... there are alternatives available.
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Journalists will follow him but his base might not. His base are the ones he is really talking to, not the journalists.
Anyway it wouldn't fix this issue, he would stop be trending on Twitter because it's everyone else posting about the stuff he says and does that makes that happen, not Trump.
So unfair! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So unfair! (Score:4, Interesting)
He didn't articulate it well (because he almost never does), but there does appear to be a bias.
Trump has 80+ million twitter followers. Many (most?) of them post and retweet positive messages about the president. And it only takes a couple thousand retweets to get to the top of the trending tweets list (at least that what google tells me). So why are positive Trump tweets (of which there are lots from his fanbase) basically non-existent on that page?
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I thought it was obvious. Most of Trump's followers are bots, journalists, and his enemies hate-watching him implode. He has very, very little support among normal American citizens at this point.
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"He didn't articulate it well"
He didn't sound like a functioning adult. HE'S THE PRESIDENT AND HE SOUNDS LIKE A DERANGED 5-YEAR OLD. And you're really going "he has a point"?
Re:So unfair! (Score:5, Insightful)
No, most of his Twitter followers just want to see what batshit crazy thing he posts next. Trump is the world's greatest shock comedian (but the world's worst president).
Re:So unfair! (Score:5, Informative)
Trump has 80+ million twitter followers. Many (most?) of them post and retweet positive messages about the president. And it only takes a couple thousand retweets to get to the top of the trending tweets list (at least that what google tells me). So why are positive Trump tweets (of which there are lots from his fanbase) basically non-existent on that page?
80+ Million twitter followers? 62,984,828 Voted for Trump. If every single one of them had a twitter account and follow him, that still means 1/4 of his followers didn't vote for him, don't support him and/or aren't from the US. It's doubtful that any of that quarter have anything positive to say about him.
That also ignores the possibility that a good chunk of those followers are bots. I'm not sure how bots factor in to trending numbers.
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I follow Trump, I'm not even in the USA. Not everything is about following people you agree with, sometimes you want to keep tabs on people you don't or better still just get your daily dose of laughing at the incredibly stupid shit morons say.
I don't like him. He's the single worst president a wealthy western nation has seen since the war, but man I can highly recommend not only following him and retweeting but also buying the book [amazon.com]. It's a great laugh.
Ultimate snowflake (Score:5, Insightful)
Everyone in the UK instantly thinks of Kevin and Perry. Perry asking for a jam sandwich, and Kevin Trump complaining "it's so unfair".
Re:Ultimate snowflake (Score:5, Insightful)
Donald Trump - eternal snowflake - "It's so unfair". Everyone in the UK instantly thinks of Kevin and Perry. Perry asking for a jam sandwich, and Kevin Trump complaining "it's so unfair".
Considering the endemic tough guy culture in the US, it's quite interesting that a national leader of that country could derive his greatest strength from the fact that he is a whiny little bitch who routinely gets on a stage and whines about what a victim he is.
Re:Ultimate snowflake (Score:5, Insightful)
The complete opposite of Reagan. Reagan was great at shrugging off criticism, Trump lets criticism stick to him. Reagan was full of confidence, and Trump is full of insecurity. Reagan was friends with everyone even political adversaries, but Trump treats everyone as a potential enemy.
Trending now (Score:5, Funny)
President Trump thinks that trends are illegal!
Slashdot (Score:2)
Or Trump's twitter feed. You decide.
You know what I always say about Twitter? (Score:2, Flamebait)
FUCK twitter!
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Try this one simple trick (Score:4, Funny)
The hilarious part is (Score:5, Funny)
So He Just Implicated Himself (Score:2)
To a crime. Incredulous.
Typical (Score:5, Funny)
Old man yells at cloud, film at 11....
Wait a sec... (Score:5, Funny)
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Wisdom from an alcoholic (Score:5, Insightful)
This is our leader speaking... (Score:5, Insightful)
We asked for this. We voted him in. We absolutely asked for this and deserve every steaming pile that's been dumped on us for the past 3 years. And there's a good chance that we get 4 more years of it. We had better have a fair, free and open election in November. The only reason that I can tolerate this is because I know that we asked for it. That's democracy. We don't get the best leaders. We get the leaders that we ask for.
This current guy..... oh my god..... just listen to that rant about Twitter. He reaps massive PR benefits from the platform for 4 years and then suddenly opens up on them like a 3-year old throwing a tantrum. "Unfair"???? Haaahahahahahahaha that's cute. That's so adorably cute. Listening to the frikkin POTUS whining about unfairness, after watching him spending 3 years taking an endless string of steaming dumps on every single person around him except for his immediate family. And the Senate Republicans lining up to support him (how'd that work out for you Jeff Sessions?) or staying silent because they're too scared to speak truth to power. Gods, the amount of cowardice here is staggering. This used to be the party of Lincoln. Note that I use past tense.
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Whether it's illegal or not is up to the courts. Maybe laws meant to protect elections apply here. Maybe not.
I do however think if a website curates as much as Twitter they should lose their platform protections and be classified as a publisher. They enjoy special exemptions from laws because moderation is supposedly too hard, but at the same time they've shown again and again that they are perfectly capable of moderating if it suits their goals.
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I thought conservatives supported a company’s right to be biased as they see fit. Do you agree with Trump that this alleged bias is illegal?
Maybe Twitter just needs to pull a Fox News an label themselves as an "opinion/entertainment" outlet instead of a "news" outlet so that they can be as blatantly biased as they want?
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I thought conservatives supported a companyâ(TM)s right to be biased as they see fit.
They do...when the company is biased in their favor.
Re:Twitter trending is notorious (Score:4, Insightful)
Cancel culture is speech with consequences.
If you choose to walk around Wal-Mart or in public with a swastika on your facemask, people will take pictures and post that info. When others identify that you work at company X, then that company has the right to not be associated with people who CHOOSE to act that way in public.
If you harass black people and call them the N word all while someone is filming it, and again get identified as being associated with company X or group Y, they have the right to fire/disassociate from you.
If you get caught molesting children on the playground, well before you are convicted you will likely be "cancelled" in any workplace or organization you belong to.
Please explain which part of these scenarios is bad/wrong/unfair? Is a company wrong for not wanting to be associated with racists or people who identify as NAZIs?
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"Cancel Culture" is such an interesting turn of phrase.
Opposing "cancel culture" is a less than fancy way of saying you oppose the the right of people to free association and the right of private companies to decide what they find offensive.
You want government to force people and companies to provide a soap box and be forced to listen to you and others like you.
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So the big question then: Is the Democratic Party under Joe Biden trying to establish a dictatorship in America?
Maybe, not very likely. Is Trump? Almost definitely. I'll take maybe over definitely.
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Dude the conspiracy goes deeper.
The Nazis, the Russian communists, Chinese communists etc they all breathed air. Guess what Biden and of course Hillary breathe... You guessed it air. It makes me sick. The lizard men will stop at nothing to effect a takeover.
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If I could, I would readily trade Trump for a random selection of the last three Republican presidents.
So would most non-conservatives.
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We've been hearing about America's imminent descent into full-blown Communism at the hands of the Democratic party for the last 30 years and it never happens. Clinton and Obama didn't take the guns, they didn't abolish private property rights, and they didn't destroy capitalism.
How many conservatives have promised to return America to the mid-20th centu