TWTR <-- Dead Meat

I hear you speaking out against violent riots when black left leaning folks are involved. I don't see you speaking out against violent riots when white right leaning folks are involved, but instead attempting to excuse it using whataboutism. That is the definition of hypocrisy and a double standard.

I've condemned both. I don't support violent mob rule. You confused highlighting a double-standard with supporting one side of a double standard which I did not do.

Oh, and perhaps the context of attacking the capitol while congress was tallying the electoral vote in a clearly stated attempt to overthrow the results of our country's election might be considered a little more serious to the future of the Republic than people who, also wrongly, were trying to occupy a federal building in Portland to bring attention to black folks getting killed by police. As I've pointed out in this thread before, being purposely obtuse and pedantic doesn't reflect well on the person engaging in it.

You don't know that the people who entered the capitol building were seriously thinking they could overthrow the government rather than civil disobedience / protest and to take a stupid picture sitting at a congress person's desk. One would have to be extremely stupid to think that a mob of a several thousand people could overthrow government backed by one of the strongest militaries on earth. On the other hand, your statement about the people occupying the Federal building to bring attention to "black folks" (I assume you meant racial injustice) is also an assumption. You claim that, but you don't know that was their motive. They shot fireworks at the building and attempted to burn it down. They attacked Federal property. Was the guy walking off with a new pair of shoes and jewelry also protesting racial injustice? How about the guy who lit a bus stop on fire? Was that also racial injustice?

BTW, this is a thread about Twitter. You do realize you embedded a link to a CNN clip?

That was the clip of Waters that I was referencing.
 
I like the end comment: “Donald Trump isn’t the cause of this great revolt, he is the result of it”. Which I took to mean that the American people are fed up with the business as usual career politicians that have been secretly fucking us for decades...cough cough “10% for the big guy” cough cough Uranium One, etc..

the media has highlighted every single little thing Trump has done and spun it in as negative a way possible while never giving him credit for a single positive thing he has done. Imagine if Obama had made peace with N. Korea or stood up to China over the trade deficit (instead of bomb brown kids in the Middle East)...the media would hail him as the hero of the nation.

The swamp was just too deep and Trump’s control over his own mouth was too shallow...

I have an Android phone. Every single news alert I got related to Trump was something negative. I never got any positive alert involving Trump that was positive. No alert about record low unemployment (before 2020), no alert about middle east peace deal, no alert that the Russian collusion investigation found nothing...just 100% negative. If the media treated the left the same way they treated the right, the election would have turned out much different. I don't blame the media though, I blame the average voter. China has to be laughing. I believe the 2020 elections would have been much different had their not been Covid. Who benefits from all this in the end? I suspect China.
 
I have an Android phone. Every single news alert I got related to Trump was something negative. I never got any positive alert involving Trump that was positive. No alert about record low unemployment (before 2020), no alert about middle east peace deal, no alert that the Russian collusion investigation found nothing...just 100% negative. If the media treated the left the same way they treated the right, the election would have turned out much different. I don't blame the media though, I blame the average voter. China has to be laughing. I believe the 2020 elections would have been much different had their not been Covid. Who benefits from all this in the end? I suspect China.

If I were China I would have laughed so hard on January 6th, lo mein would have fallen out of my nose.
 
Twitter has been in a horrible position for the last 4 1/2 years. They've already pissed off millions of people by letting Trump use their platform to spread not only lies but some pretty reprehensible content in the form of personal attacks on guys who died for their country and their families, judges, disables folks, women... And it would have been the final straw for millions more if they didn't do something about the undeniable fact that the capitol was attacked and people were killed, including a police officer, by people who wouldn't have been there but for the false narrative Trump has been spewing about "massive election fraud" using their platform.
They may well lose money because they can't get those folks back. That may only mean that from a business decision perspective they should have enforced their TOS on Trump earlier, not that they shouldn't have enforced them now. As I alluded to earlier, you really need to define what the value per customer to Twitter is for one of the hard core Trump denialists? Do they really contribute much to Twitter's revenue? Are they big spenders at Twitter's online advertisers? Do Twitters advertisers want them as customers? Purely from a business point of view, now is probably the very best time to rip the bandaid off on this, take a small hit and some negative but at least given the circumstances defensible press, and move on to reclaim the market they've lost already by enabling Trump.

Twitter is largely an echo chamber. The people who hate Trump don't follow him. They mostly only follow other people who think like they do.

As I alluded to earlier, you really need to define what the value per customer to Twitter is for one of the hard core Trump denialists? Do they really contribute much to Twitter's revenue? Are they big spenders at Twitter's online advertisers? Do Twitters advertisers want them as customers?

Social media platforms want more users, more viewers, not less. Conservatives are a sizable chunk of the economy. I suspect most advertisers want their business. Shareholders want to see higher revenue, not lower.
 
The issue is the blatant double-standard. How the does someone like Maxine Waters still have a twitter account after this:


How is that not inciting violence? Show me video of Trump saying something more inciting than that. There were literally 100 days of violent riots/protests in Portland. I never heard any mainstream media outrage over those events. They were sympathetic and referred to the protestors as "mostly peaceful" and never used words like "mob", "insurrectionists", or "violent" as they lit businesses and Federal buildings on fire, looted, violently beat and even killed people.

She's a member of the new boss in town. All the big tech firms, Twitter needs to kiss up to the new boss in order to be able to stay big.
 
How are NK relations today vs 2016?

And I said “stood up to China over the trade deficit”...tell me which president started the US-China trade wars?
Well NK has conducted 3 more nuclear weapons tests, 30 more missle tests including and ICBM and the first submarine launched ballistic missles, killed an American college student named Otto Warmbier, and the last thing they had to say about us was "In order to eliminate the nuclear threats from the U.S., the DPRK government has made all possible efforts either through dialogue or in resort to the international law, but all ended in a vain effort. The only option left is to counter nuke with nuke." If that's your definition of "made peace with North Korea", then I'm deeply sorry to have to say it, but you sir are quite clearly completely detached from reality.

As far as wars go, after serving for more than 20 years I happen to prefer Presidents that win them, not Presidents who "stand up" and manage to make the situation they were allegedly fixing significantly worse. How about you, do you prefer failure? Because that's all there is to see if you look at how much the trade deficit with China ballooned under your dear leader.
 
Twitter is largely an echo chamber...

And that is all they should be. They should not provide content. They are simply a catalyst for people to post content. It's basically a bulletin board, like this forum, and all other places similar.
 
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