White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note

Re:White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note by rootusrootus on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:08PM (#33474560)

> “Suffrage” itself is simply who gets the right to vote.

No, suffrage is the right to vote. Not who. So 'repeal suffrage' simply means repealing the right to vote. It is not confusing, just absurd.

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Re:White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note by skissane on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:32PM (#33474880)

Is abolishing elections and replacing them by sortition (legislative juries) “absurd”? A very radical proposal, but doesn’t seem inherently “absurd” to me. And of course, under such a system, nobody has suffrage (unless one means the suffrage of jurors on a jury.)

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Re:White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note by tomrod on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:14PM (#33475401)

To be fair, most people have a hard time understanding the word "hypothetical" or realizing something different from the status quo.

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Re:White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note by rootusrootus on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:12PM (#33476037)

I like sortition myself, but yes it is absurd.

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Re:White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note by skissane on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:44PM (#33476341)

Why?

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