Donald Trump

OnWis97

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

This is an interesting one. They're censoring him...to a degree. But leaving the tweet up. I wonder if they're leaving it up in a "Oh no, we're scared of his executive order" sort of way, or if they're leaving it up in a "look at this asshole glorifying violence" sort of way. You have to click on the violation notice to actually see the tweet. 

the latter. jack dorsey knows full well he has nothing to fear from the disaster in chief. legal experts are saying his EO is largely toothless. people crying free speech on a private company's platform are fucking idiots. 

reminds me of people who got warnings here crying free speech. morons, the whole lot of em!

edit to add: and i'm not one to be shocked by anything this fucktard says. but imagine a president saying "...the shooting starts". he is essentially threatening to murder his own citizens. 

i fucking hate this saying, but i'm going to use it anyway....."let that sink in". 

It's funny because it goes against a main belief of conservatives/republicans, which is, "What's mine is mine. I own it, and the government can't mess with it." Isn't that why the GOP opposed the civil rights act? Goldwater argued that if a person owns a business, they should be able to serve and not serve whoever they want. Under that premise, shouldn't Dorsey and Zuckerberg be entitled to do whatever they want with their platforms, that they provide for FREE? 

A friend of mine and I were arguing about this the other day. He alleges that those platforms censor conservatives and prop up liberal narratives, which they do, to a degree, and he further claims that they're a monopoly. But I told him, hey, sorry that it's always liberals that come up with these great technological advances. If a conservative invented twitter, it'd be the same thing but it would be the left that was censored. So either use Twitter and stop crying about it, or start your own social media site. 

It seems ironic until you realize that their main belief is holding power and all the stuff they talk about is expendable once they have it.  They care about the debt/deficit only when there's a Democratic president.  They don't want government officials sticking their nose in private business until their guy tells the NFL ow to handle the anthem. And they sure as hell don't want government stifling free speech, except that Trump alludes to it all the time and they celebrate.  Second Term prediction: Trump starts talking about shutting down CNN and his supporters are all in.

Also, the problem with your friend's take is that one of the two biggest platforms, Facebook, is totally on Team Trump because money.

Ledbetterman10

OnWis97 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

This is an interesting one. They're censoring him...to a degree. But leaving the tweet up. I wonder if they're leaving it up in a "Oh no, we're scared of his executive order" sort of way, or if they're leaving it up in a "look at this asshole glorifying violence" sort of way. You have to click on the violation notice to actually see the tweet. 

the latter. jack dorsey knows full well he has nothing to fear from the disaster in chief. legal experts are saying his EO is largely toothless. people crying free speech on a private company's platform are fucking idiots. 

reminds me of people who got warnings here crying free speech. morons, the whole lot of em!

edit to add: and i'm not one to be shocked by anything this fucktard says. but imagine a president saying "...the shooting starts". he is essentially threatening to murder his own citizens. 

i fucking hate this saying, but i'm going to use it anyway....."let that sink in". 

It's funny because it goes against a main belief of conservatives/republicans, which is, "What's mine is mine. I own it, and the government can't mess with it." Isn't that why the GOP opposed the civil rights act? Goldwater argued that if a person owns a business, they should be able to serve and not serve whoever they want. Under that premise, shouldn't Dorsey and Zuckerberg be entitled to do whatever they want with their platforms, that they provide for FREE? 

A friend of mine and I were arguing about this the other day. He alleges that those platforms censor conservatives and prop up liberal narratives, which they do, to a degree, and he further claims that they're a monopoly. But I told him, hey, sorry that it's always liberals that come up with these great technological advances. If a conservative invented twitter, it'd be the same thing but it would be the left that was censored. So either use Twitter and stop crying about it, or start your own social media site. 

It seems ironic until you realize that their main belief is holding power and all the stuff they talk about is expendable once they have it.  They care about the debt/deficit only when there's a Democratic president.  They don't want government officials sticking their nose in private business until their guy tells the NFL ow to handle the anthem. And they sure as hell don't want government stifling free speech, except that Trump alludes to it all the time and they celebrate.  Second Term prediction: Trump starts talking about shutting down CNN and his supporters are all in.

Also, the problem with your friend's take is that one of the two biggest platforms, Facebook, is totally on Team Trump because money.

In fairness to my friend, he was just talking about Twitter. I just threw Zuckerberg in the first paragraph after reading some of the comments on Fox News' YouTube interview with him. They think he (and people like him) are the one leading us into an Orwellian hellhole...instead of Trump who actually is (or maybe already HAS).

HughFreakingDillon

how can it even be claimed that they have a monopoly when it's a free service? and how is two companies a monopoly? do trump supporters not understand what the prefix "mono" means? LOL

HughFreakingDillon

republicans are for free speech until it's a liberal being silenced
republicans are pro life until it's a POC person being killed
republicans are for autonomy from government until they want something shut down

don't be like republicans. 

Ledbetterman10

HughFreakingDillon said:

how can it even be claimed that they have a monopoly when it's a free service? and how is two companies a monopoly? do trump supporters not understand what the prefix "mono" means? LOL

Throw YouTube (google) in there too, so it's three companies. I know...I said the same thing. "Monopoly" is factually wrong, but what they're trying to say (I guess) is that left-leaning people run all those companies so (again, I guess) the left has a "monopoly" on social media. I don't know.

pjhawks

this is too funny. Trump supporters folks.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/5g-conspiracy-theorists-sell-350-usb-stick-to-fight-electric-fog/

Ledbetterman10

OF COURSE it was a George Wallace quote...

https://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1266345017515401216?s=20

KInda like when he quote Bane during his inauguration. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA9EeuzoBxs

HughFreakingDillon

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

how can it even be claimed that they have a monopoly when it's a free service? and how is two companies a monopoly? do trump supporters not understand what the prefix "mono" means? LOL

Throw YouTube (google) in there too, so it's three companies. I know...I said the same thing. "Monopoly" is factually wrong, but what they're trying to say (I guess) is that left-leaning people run all those companies so (again, I guess) the left has a "monopoly" on social media. I don't know.

So, as you suggested, all they have to do is start their own social media platform. he's obviously going directly after twitter without saying so. he recently proclaimed he's number 1 on facebook, so if that's true (it's not, but facts are beside the point to these idiots), how can he claim he and his supporters are being silenced while also claiming to be #1?

if there was a left-leaning version of alex jones, i'm sure they'd be eventually banned from youtube too. 

mrussel1

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

how can it even be claimed that they have a monopoly when it's a free service? and how is two companies a monopoly? do trump supporters not understand what the prefix "mono" means? LOL

Throw YouTube (google) in there too, so it's three companies. I know...I said the same thing. "Monopoly" is factually wrong, but what they're trying to say (I guess) is that left-leaning people run all those companies so (again, I guess) the left has a "monopoly" on social media. I don't know.

Left leaning people run all the companies these days,  except oil and gas,  and construction.

Im overstating of course,  but social liberalism is embedded in corporate culture. 

ikiT

he's kind of a fascist dictator yo

HughFreakingDillon

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1266358757749112833?s=20

The Juggler

HughFreakingDillon said:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1266358757749112833?s=20

158 days until Election Day. 

darwinstheory

The Juggler said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1266358757749112833?s=20

158 days until Election Day. 

Can we just do it now?!?! Please. 

bootlegger10

I am nervous.  The republicans don’t care what he says but what he does.  They like the bills he has passed and positions he takes and don’t care about his stupid comments.

Friends and family tell me that he says stupid stuff but they can’t vote democratic because they don’t like their positions.  I tell them that they are lied to and that the leaders have no intention of making abortion illegal or balancing the budget so stop holding the rest of America hostage by voting for these idiots.

The Juggler

bootlegger10 said:

I am nervous.  The republicans don’t care what he says but what he does.  They like the bills he has passed and positions he takes and don’t care about his stupid comments.

Friends and family tell me that he says stupid stuff but they can’t vote democratic because they don’t like their positions.  I tell them that they are lied to and that the leaders have no intention of making abortion illegal or balancing the budget so stop holding the rest of America hostage by voting for these idiots.

They're spending like drunken sailors and abandoning their conservative roots. All of these pro Trump republicans aren't even real republicans anymore. They're fucking hypocrites.

Remain calm, though. Biden remains in better shape than any other challenger to an incumbent ever, I believe. 

There's still a fire in the engine room.....

pjhawks

HughFreakingDillon said:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1266358757749112833?s=20

so Biden's point about if you vote for Trump you aren't black is kind of spot on

Halifax2TheMax

From the White House email blast (please, be best):

Dear 1600 Daily subscribers,
 
We are forwarding you this email that the White House just received from Twitter. It’s so absurd, we just had to share it with you.
 
This morning, the White House Twitter account reposted text from a tweet sent by President Trump. A short time later, Twitter censored the tweet, claiming it violated Twitter Rules about “glorifying violence.”
 
That is completely false. As the President just explained again, his tweet was CONDEMING violence and pledging federal support to keep Minnesotans safe.
 
The email we just received, presumably sent by a different team within Twitter, admits that the very tweet they are censoring does not violate any Twitter Rules. 
 
Yet the tweet is still censored.
 
Twitter’s own staff just made this much clear: Twitter is a publisher with an editorial viewpoint, NOT a platform.
 
See the email below for yourself: 

ikiT

Halifax2TheMax said:

From the White House email blast (please, be best):

Dear 1600 Daily subscribers,
 
We are forwarding you this email that the White House just received from Twitter. It’s so absurd, we just had to share it with you.
 
This morning, the White House Twitter account reposted text from a tweet sent by President Trump. A short time later, Twitter censored the tweet, claiming it violated Twitter Rules about “glorifying violence.”
 
That is completely false. As the President just explained again, his tweet was CONDEMING violence and pledging federal support to keep Minnesotans safe.
 
The email we just received, presumably sent by a different team within Twitter, admits that the very tweet they are censoring does not violate any Twitter Rules. 
 
Yet the tweet is still censored.
 
Twitter’s own staff just made this much clear: Twitter is a publisher with an editorial viewpoint, NOT a platform.
 
See the email below for yourself: 

That is completely false. As the President just explained again, his tweet was CONDEMING violence and pledging federal support to keep Minnesotans safe.   

To the WH (probably KAC or Hope Hicks/IVANKA),

that's some Spicer worthy DOUBLETHINK, and if you're going to use big words like CONDEMNING, use fucking spell check, stupid. 

ikiT

I cant wait until this idiot has been dispatched.  Jesus.

Halifax2TheMax

ikiT said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

From the White House email blast (please, be best):

Dear 1600 Daily subscribers,
 
We are forwarding you this email that the White House just received from Twitter. It’s so absurd, we just had to share it with you.
 
This morning, the White House Twitter account reposted text from a tweet sent by President Trump. A short time later, Twitter censored the tweet, claiming it violated Twitter Rules about “glorifying violence.”
 
That is completely false. As the President just explained again, his tweet was CONDEMING violence and pledging federal support to keep Minnesotans safe.
 
The email we just received, presumably sent by a different team within Twitter, admits that the very tweet they are censoring does not violate any Twitter Rules. 
 
Yet the tweet is still censored.
 
Twitter’s own staff just made this much clear: Twitter is a publisher with an editorial viewpoint, NOT a platform.
 
See the email below for yourself: 

That is completely false. As the President just explained again, his tweet was CONDEMING violence and pledging federal support to keep Minnesotans safe.   

To the WH (probably KAC or Hope Hicks/IVANKA),

that's some Spicer worthy DOUBLETHINK, and if you're going to use big words like CONDEMNING, use fucking spell check, stupid. 

Right? Is it too much to expect that any and all White House communications would have all the words spelled correctly? Never mind making logical sense, just get the words spelled correctly. Give us that at least.