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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by paiute on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:59PM (#23355483)
During his 'The president has total power' gaffe he at one point said something along "I am president, the president isn't a person, but the office. I have the office now. Then the next guy will have the office..." You know, the kind of thing a dictator would say. Sometimes I feel like defending him due to people's over reactions when I wouldn't otherwise.
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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by mattbk1 on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:34PM (#23355816)
The context for this is also that although Democrats wanted Obama to use executive orders to advance their agenda, Obama understood that future presidents would use his use of executive orders as precedent for their own--regardless of to what party they belong.
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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by tc313 on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:58PM (#23356026)
That’s awfully ungenerous to your fellow HNer. Maybe it would be better to wait for his response to your question (“Why is that?”) rather than answering it yourself.
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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by thatguy0900 on Friday May 29, 2020 @09:53PM (#23357773)
If I had to guess you're the kind of person who always thinks you're the smartest guy around. You know absolutely nothing about this person, just went on this rant against a strawman to feel intelligent.
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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by zapita on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:07PM (#23358130)
Yes, that’s always a possibility. I try to check myself for this kind of behavior, and I don’t think that your description is accurate, but of course you never know for certain.
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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by pavlov on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:09PM (#23355579)
Vladimir Putin talks about his office in a similar way. Yet he's managed to hold it for 20 years even though the Russian constitution was supposed to limit him to two four-year terms.

At least since Augustus, dictators have been diligent in paying lip service to law and established tradition while trampling over both.

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