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This discussion is probably going to be flagged for being political, but I'll comment while it's here. -- I find it difficult to believe that the White House

This discussion is probably going to be flagged for being political, but I'll comment while it's here. -- I find it difficult to believe that the White House administration has any kind of expert opinion backing up this particular tweet.

s5300 6y ago
I really hadn't intended it to be political. I guess I can understand how it would easily be seen that way though. I'm just in complete awe of "appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment." Coming from the leader of a developed country. Absolutely in awe of the magnitude of... trolling old people, I think. He's trolling old people, SO damn hard. Edit: Has The Onion truly ever posted anything more hilarious than this tweet? Like, I'm a serious fan of The Onion. But man... this is up there
- bovermyer 6y ago
  Regarding your edit: you should look into the r/nottheonion subreddit.
  - s5300 6y ago
    Oh, I'm well aware. It's just, this is literally the POTUS on his national broadcast system.
fabiofzero 6y ago
Everything is political. Tech is built by people to be used by people, therefore it's as political as it gets. And yes, that tweet is ridiculous - as is the current iteration of the White House.
raxxorrax 6y ago
That doesn't count anymore. We had expert opinions on Russians for three years and it was pure horseshit. We had innocents slandered as racists, sexists and generally deplorable. Trump just uses lies like that against political enemies. While it is not really viable to reciprocate this for a longer time, it is what it is and seems to work. On the other hand, I need a 4th estate critical about a president. I never heard anything critical about Trumps competitors, so it might indeed be advantageous to vote for him as long as there is no critical press available.
- zimpenfish 6y ago
  > I never heard anything critical about Trumps competitors Can you expand on this? I'm pretty sure, for example, that 2016 was -quite- critical about Trump's competition.
  - raxxorrax 6y ago
    Ok, specifically Hillary as the main candidate. The others got their flak indeed.
    - zimpenfish 6y ago
      Just to clarify, you think the media was uncritical of Clinton in 2016?
- basch 6y ago
  The 4th estate crying bloody murder is what got him elected. Instead of ignoring him, they gave him all the press, and every person ready to put a shiv in the DNC voted for him, knowing he was exactly the kind of torment the DNC couldnt handle. In the specific case of a wrecking ball, a candidate elected to purposely be a forest fire, any amount of press fans the flame. https://nypost.com/2016/11/20/keep-crying-wolf-about-trump-and-no-one-will-listen-to-a-real-crisis/ https://nypost.com/2016/11/20/keep-crying-wolf-about-trump-a...
  - zimpenfish 6y ago
    > The 4th estate crying bloody murder is what got him elected. And it doesn't look like they've learnt any lessons in the interim, sadly.

s5300 6y ago

I really hadn't intended it to be political. I guess I can understand how it would easily be seen that way though. I'm just in complete awe of "appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment." Coming from the leader of a developed country. Absolutely in awe of the magnitude of... trolling old people, I think. He's trolling old people, SO damn hard. Edit: Has The Onion truly ever posted anything more hilarious than this tweet? Like, I'm a serious fan of The Onion. But man... this is up there

bovermyer 6y ago
Regarding your edit: you should look into the r/nottheonion subreddit.
- s5300 6y ago
  Oh, I'm well aware. It's just, this is literally the POTUS on his national broadcast system.

fabiofzero 6y ago

Everything is political. Tech is built by people to be used by people, therefore it's as political as it gets. And yes, that tweet is ridiculous - as is the current iteration of the White House.

raxxorrax 6y ago

That doesn't count anymore. We had expert opinions on Russians for three years and it was pure horseshit. We had innocents slandered as racists, sexists and generally deplorable. Trump just uses lies like that against political enemies. While it is not really viable to reciprocate this for a longer time, it is what it is and seems to work. On the other hand, I need a 4th estate critical about a president. I never heard anything critical about Trumps competitors, so it might indeed be advantageous to vote for him as long as there is no critical press available.

zimpenfish 6y ago
> I never heard anything critical about Trumps competitors Can you expand on this? I'm pretty sure, for example, that 2016 was -quite- critical about Trump's competition.
- raxxorrax 6y ago
  Ok, specifically Hillary as the main candidate. The others got their flak indeed.
  - zimpenfish 6y ago
    Just to clarify, you think the media was uncritical of Clinton in 2016?
basch 6y ago
The 4th estate crying bloody murder is what got him elected. Instead of ignoring him, they gave him all the press, and every person ready to put a shiv in the DNC voted for him, knowing he was exactly the kind of torment the DNC couldnt handle. In the specific case of a wrecking ball, a candidate elected to purposely be a forest fire, any amount of press fans the flame. https://nypost.com/2016/11/20/keep-crying-wolf-about-trump-and-no-one-will-listen-to-a-real-crisis/ https://nypost.com/2016/11/20/keep-crying-wolf-about-trump-a...
- zimpenfish 6y ago
  > The 4th estate crying bloody murder is what got him elected. And it doesn't look like they've learnt any lessons in the interim, sadly.