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So Trump could still mute people, right? Seems like the reason he can't block people is because it prevents them from replying to his posts and engaging in the
by cwkoss 8y ago
So Trump could still mute people, right?
Seems like the reason he can't block people is because it prevents them from replying to his posts and engaging in the public conversation. Title seems a bit misleading, almost makes it sound like he has to read all of his twitter replies.
- some_random 8y agoI'd imagine so, the right to free speech doesn't mean the government has to listen, right?
- frockington 8y agoDon't tell this to the hundreds of people who reply "Drumpf will be impeached #RESIST" to every single one of his tweets. The realization that he has never read a single one of their tweets might be enough cause a heart attack
- mieseratte 8y ago> Drumpf On a tangent, what is the deal with the "Drumpf" thing? It was his family name some time ago, so is this just the other sides' "Barack Hussein Obama" or is there more to it?
- AckSyn 8y ago> On a tangent, what is the deal with the "Drumpf" thing? It was his family name some time ago, so is this just the other sides' "Barack Hussein Obama" or is there more to it? Yup, that's the crux of it.
- mschuster91 8y ago> It was his family name some time ago, so is this just the other sides' "Barack Hussein Obama" or is there more to it? No, it's not the same thing. The Hussein thing is that the Alt-Right uses it to imply Obama being a Muslim (which he is not) and thus, by extension, a terrorist supporter/enabler. The Drumpf thing, however, is nothing more than highlighting the family origin (which Trump actually even stated himself, per https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-drumpf/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-drumpf/).
- V-2 8y agoHighlighting with what purpose? What political associations could possibly go with "Drumpf" that are absent from "Trump"?
- RightMillennial 8y agoI don't know about that. Whenever I've seen "Drumpf" used it seems to be trying to associate Trump with Nazis (because it's German) which is very similar to purposely using "Hussein" (which is Arabic) to associate Obama with Muslim extremists.
- lightbyte 8y agoOther posters have not given the actual reason for this. It is from HBO's Last Week Tonight. The joke is that Trump made fun of Jon Stewart for changing his last name in a tweet [1], which is silly because his family did the same. >I promise you that I'm much smarter than Jonathan Leibowitz - I mean Jon Stewart @TheDailyShow. Who, by the way, is totally overrated. [1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/327076720425451523 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/32707672042545152...
- milankovic 8y agoCorrect me if I am wrong here, but if I recall it correctly, Jon Stewart made that name change himself (as your comment and linked source implies), while in Trump's case, it was not done by himself, it was something that his father had done in his life (or maybe even grandfather?). That is something fundamentally different, but Last Week Tonight is just some comedy show, so one should not expect too much here.
- frockington 8y agoProbably something to do with Trump being "Literally Hitler" or something because it sounds German
- orf 8y agoThe realization that those tweets are not really aimed at him might shock you.
- bcheung 8y agoUnfortunately, multiple functionality gets cut off with a block. It should be finer grained.