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Partly maybe, but for most it‘s too little, too late. Banning him for two of his weakest tweets on a history of four years of inciting hatred, bigotism and viol
by endymi0n 6y ago
Partly maybe, but for most it‘s too little, too late. Banning him for two of his weakest tweets on a history of four years of inciting hatred, bigotism and violence does not put a good light on Twitter.
This smells like some extremely transparent opportunism after all they‘ve earned with 45.
- BitwiseFool 6y agoI couldn't have said it any better. It's pure opportunism and moral grandstanding.
- emilsedgh 6y agoThe problem is half the country sees the world in a different way. They already are yelling "censorship".
- ibeckermayer 6y agoAs a matter of fact this is censorship.
- CathedralBorrow 6y agoThat's a matter of opinion.
- zmmmmm 6y agoThe strongest part of it seems to be that they cite specific activity on Twitter to organise a second attack on the Capitol which is directly linked to these tweets. It seems reasonable to me on the basis that they are basing their actions on actual risk of actual violence occurring as a result of statements. So they have ignored everything up to now because there was not tangible evidence that violence could result. They're now in a position where there is tangible evidence that violence is a realistic outcome from Trump's words, and this has altered their interpretation of his statements generally.
- syshum 6y agoI have wondered this for the last few years, but why do people refer to Trump as 45? No other president that I can recall has been referred index number of their presidency, I do not see people calling President Obama "44" or President Bush "43" it is odd to me
- trav4225 6y agoI definitely recall Bush being referred to as "43", especially to distinguish him from 41.
- syshum 6y agoThanks, I wonder if that is origin of the usage..
- trav4225 6y agoHmm... might be!
- caturopath 6y agoEven among the two of them, they used these as nicknames. It lead to a lot of discussion of Grover Cleveland back in the day.
- netsharc 6y agoBasically, it's the loud uncle who's been screaming nonsense the whole dinner party, and now he's just shoved you and you fell down. The host told him to go to the other room and take 10 minutes to calm down. Now he comes back and returns to screaming...