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"This was a very futile and stupid gesture on that employee's part." I think thats how most non-violent activism / movements starts. As a futile effort. If his

"This was a very futile and stupid gesture on that employee's part." I think thats how most non-violent activism / movements starts. As a futile effort. If his actions starts the dialog on how dangerous it is for the POTUS to tweet from unreliable communication medium than its not futile at all.

dogma1138 9y ago
They didn't do it because they thought that tweeter is too dangerous for official communication they did it because they disagree with the current POTUS. If they had the ability to shutdown whitehouse.gov they would've done so just as well.
- uoaei 9y ago
  You sound so certain!
  - dogma1138 9y ago
    About as certain as on can be in the current climate. As much as I dislike trump the left has gone off the rails I wonder what would’ve happened if some country singer would’ve released an album with a lynched Obama on the cover or if Anne Coulter would’ve posted a picture holding his decapitated head.
krapp 9y ago
>If his actions starts the dialog on how dangerous it is for the POTUS to tweet from unreliable communication medium than its not futile at all. But that dialog started a long time ago... half the country thinks Trump is a hero for his unfiltered Twitter rants, believing he's doing an end run around the DNC controlled media and Deep State establishment, and the other half was pointing out that this would be a problem even before he was elected, based on his existing Twitter history. Previous Presidents and other governments have official Twitter accounts... and Trump has the same free speech rights as everyone else. The problem isn't that the President is tweeting, it's just Twitter, it shouldn't matter, and I think the governments of the rest of the world know that it shouldn't matter. The problem is that the American people elected a shitposting troll as their leader and now can't stop him without undermining their own principles.

dogma1138 9y ago

They didn't do it because they thought that tweeter is too dangerous for official communication they did it because they disagree with the current POTUS. If they had the ability to shutdown whitehouse.gov they would've done so just as well.

uoaei 9y ago
You sound so certain!
- dogma1138 9y ago
  About as certain as on can be in the current climate. As much as I dislike trump the left has gone off the rails I wonder what would’ve happened if some country singer would’ve released an album with a lynched Obama on the cover or if Anne Coulter would’ve posted a picture holding his decapitated head.

krapp 9y ago

>If his actions starts the dialog on how dangerous it is for the POTUS to tweet from unreliable communication medium than its not futile at all. But that dialog started a long time ago... half the country thinks Trump is a hero for his unfiltered Twitter rants, believing he's doing an end run around the DNC controlled media and Deep State establishment, and the other half was pointing out that this would be a problem even before he was elected, based on his existing Twitter history. Previous Presidents and other governments have official Twitter accounts... and Trump has the same free speech rights as everyone else. The problem isn't that the President is tweeting, it's just Twitter, it shouldn't matter, and I think the governments of the rest of the world know that it shouldn't matter. The problem is that the American people elected a shitposting troll as their leader and now can't stop him without undermining their own principles.