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A 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 whic
by thanatropism 7y ago
A 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.