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Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by tptacek on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:11AM (#25743776)
This analysis only makes sense if you discard the context for the tweet.
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Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by roenxi on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:04AM (#25744156)
People meaning what they said is a really defensible position to argue. Trump is pretty proud of the people who vote for him.

Hypothetically speaking, the tension could die down over the next few weeks and the context could become a single violent protest against the background of BLM. The right wing are not known for competently organising sustained protests. There is a future here where unless something surprising happens Twitter gets a lot of egg on their face for, in a panic, ejecting a sitting president for things that are pretty banal when read literally.

Twitter accepting this risk is not something that bodes well for them.

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Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by tzs on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:56AM (#25744094)
The Wall Street Journal had an article [1] laying out how Trump and his allies have been setting the stage for what happened at the Capitol on the 6th.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-and-his-allies-set-the-st...

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