Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by netsharc on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:00PM
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Basically, it's the loud uncle who's been screaming nonsense the whole dinner party, and now he's just shoved you and you fell down. The host told him to go to the other room and take 10 minutes to calm down. Now he comes back and returns to screaming...
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by BitwiseFool on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:46PM
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I couldn't have said it any better. It's pure opportunism and moral grandstanding.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by emilsedgh on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:48PM
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The problem is half the country sees the world in a different way. They already are yelling "censorship".
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by ibeckermayer on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:54AM
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As a matter of fact this is censorship.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by CathedralBorrow on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:59AM
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That's a matter of opinion.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by zmmmmm on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:04PM
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The strongest part of it seems to be that they cite specific activity on Twitter to organise a second attack on the Capitol which is directly linked to these tweets. It seems reasonable to me on the basis that they are basing their actions on actual risk of actual violence occurring as a result of statements. So they have ignored everything up to now because there was not tangible evidence that violence could result. They're now in a position where there is tangible evidence that violence is a realistic outcome from Trump's words, and this has altered their interpretation of his statements generally.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by syshum on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:49PM
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I have wondered this for the last few years, but why do people refer to Trump as 45? No other president that I can recall has been referred index number of their presidency, I do not see people calling President Obama "44" or President Bush "43"
it is odd to me
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by trav4225 on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:57PM
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I definitely recall Bush being referred to as "43", especially to distinguish him from 41.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by caturopath on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:47PM
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Even among the two of them, they used these as nicknames.
It lead to a lot of discussion of Grover Cleveland back in the day.
This smells like some extremely transparent opportunism after all they‘ve earned with 45.