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Re:Giving you more characters by aaron-lebo on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:35PM (#15344459)
Don't understand the criticism. If the world goes to nuclear war, it won't be because of a Tweet, it'll be because of a conflict going back to the 1950s, a lunatic dictator, and an elected maybe unstable authoritarian. You don't think those guys have lots of other ways of talking trash?

Is the suggestion that banning Trump from Twitter will prevent nuclear war? That sounds like armchair virtue signaling of the highest order. Or is there more to it; am I misunderstanding?

edit, so after searching, this is based on this:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/25/553475174/...

North Korea's foreign minister says President Trump's tweets about the Korean nation amount to a declaration of war and that under international law, his country can legally shoot down U.S. military planes — even if they're not in North Korea's airspace.

We pretending that the North Korean government hasn't justified a lot of crazy stuff? They probably have a good justification for the invasion of South Korea, too.

Re:Giving you more characters by chris_wot on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:01AM (#15344819)
Twitter enables the toddler in the White House.
Re:Giving you more characters by edoceo on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:19AM (#15344891)
Current issues in USA politics are larger than just a toddler on twitter. Source: disappointed American
Re:Giving you more characters by chris_wot on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:02AM (#15345260)
Not just any toddler, the Toddler In Chief!
Re:Giving you more characters by sctb on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:42PM (#15360551)
Would you please stop violating the guidelines with flamebait like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html