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That's true. One is the President's principle mechanism of speaking with the American public and firing top officials.
by CobrastanJorji 7y ago
That's true. One is the President's principle mechanism of speaking with the American public and firing top officials.
- komali2 7y agoIf Trump's account got hacked it could quite literally result in the death of millions.
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- ironSkillet 7y agoMore likely is that some Russian or Chinese hackers would make statements that tank the stock market. While setting up some short positions immediately prior.
- nexuist 7y agoThe funny part about this is that if we are to believe Trump is a Manchurian candidate, they already did this with the trade war.
- bgdnyxbjx 7y agoIf Trump’s account gets hacked it will be difficult to tell the difference between his normal incoherent ranting.
- philwelch 7y agoI’m just curious how you imagine this happening. @realdonaldtrump tweeting “I HEREBY ORDER...” is not a legally binding order. Launching nuclear missiles or whatever requires authentication codes and can only be ordered via a portable radio alongside a series of codebooks, all of which is carried by a military aide who is always near the President. Another country isn’t going to start a war based on some weird tweets. It’s an extremely unlikely and weird risk.
- thanatropism 7y agoA well crafted message that inflames followers to riot... I'm the kind of person who, for example, doubted the Covington Kids story from the beginning. By which I mean I'm not particularly alarmist about a putative vast right-wing catastrophe taking place. But any popular leader (and he's very popular among the people he's popular with) can start incidents like that by accident.
- ryanmarsh 7y agoYou mean like accusing people of treason? (punishable by death) He’s already done that from his account. To my knowledge Comey hasn’t been lynched.
- thanatropism 7y agoThis is true. Trump is so loud the whole time that it's hard to take him very seriously, even for his supporters.
- philwelch 7y agoOk but what “riot” in human history has killed MILLIONS of people? The Rwandan genocide was pretty close, except the groundwork for inciting it was laid over the course of months via state radio and they imported machetes into the country before the message was sent to “cut down the tall trees”. A compromised Twitter account isn’t going to do it.
- Phlarp 7y agoHis tweets regularly have material impact on the markets.
- philwelch 7y agoBut how would that kill millions of people? There’s a super indirect chain of events there.
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- KibbutzDalia 7y ago“principal”