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I don't know, but the press are walking on eggshells right now. They're rightfully terrified that this temperamental blowhard is going to castrate them publicly like this administration already has done with CNN. It's a strange time to be alive. If they really call him out, they will be lambasted.... on fucking TwitterOriginally Posted by aggroculture
@sickamongthepure I'm only face-palming because I'm lost for words. As much as I empathize with the statement, I can't click the 'like' button.
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Is Twitter still a relevant thing? Lots of people I know have abandoned it in the last year or so and we were told in the business module of my music course that it's the only 'big' social media network where the membership is currently shrinking. Although, tumblr seems to be winding down as well.
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Even if Trump is the last person on earth using it, it's his chosen mouthpiece, and as long as it exists it's proven to be a great format for abbreviated jabs and vague promises. I'm sure the horror of having to actually formulate coherent statements or communicate with the public regularly via a medium that doesn't insist upon brevity fills the president with waking dread.
I agree with most of what you're saying. I think the issue regarding Russia's interests right now is the larger point to the "possible hacking" side story, and Trump's praise and flattery of Putin is alarming.
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I understand, I only know the extent of that twitter-block because my sister made some connections with a few departments when she won the Federal Duck Stamp a few years ago.
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How is Trump still tweeting? Wasn't the Secret Service was supposed to take away his phone?
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Ahahahaha yeah right
From his cold, dead hands!
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You don't need a phone to Tweet.
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Oh right. Lol. I guess I so strongly connect twitter with mobile that I forget all about people who access it through the site.
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I've done most of my tweeting through the website.
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Based on every representation of Twitter I've seen : you're tweeting wrong.
I wouldn't know, I don't tweet. But if I ever twat, I'd tweet from a mobile phone, in the street, with a slightly annoyed / blasé expression.
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Legal-ish question. From the Twitter TOS:
"If you are accepting these Terms and using the Services on behalf of a company, organization, government, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so."
Can the POTUS even qualify for a personal account? Or would his elected position insinuate that anything he says on twitter is being said on behalf of "The President" instead of "Donald"?
I mean, imagine that his personal account tweets out "fuck it lets nuke England" - is there some sort of magical filter that leads people to think "it's not the President saying that, it's just Don blowing off steam. Point being...if they're one and the same, wouldn't his personal account have to be locked down the same way that the official @POTUS handle is? I remember a number of articles citing that his personal feed is a major security risk since it can be hacked just as easily as any other personal account.
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Okay, I'm not really addressing what you asked, but it reminded me...
The best thing about Trump being so in love with twitter and refusing to step away from it is that you can message the leader of the free world and tell him that he's a human turd, and there is a chance that he will actually read it. It's awesome!
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Speaking of twitter and giving fascists like Spencer special treatment as opposed to a punch in the face.
Thread: https://twitter.com/Rrrrnessa/status/823218604820799488
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So what are you doing to help? Your line of thinking is exactly what's wrong with this country and movement, because you appear to stand for nothing. At least those of us who went marching and stayed informed felt empowered. For instance, I talked to a group of people in San Antonio yesterday who joined the marches to help protect their insurance because they work at several plants around the city and didn't vote for Trump and are scared of losing their jobs and health care. That right there is something I never would've given much of an ear to, had I not even gotten up to march on the behalf of my mother, my fiancee, and my step daughter. Just because you choose not to get off your ass and decide to troll a message board, doesn't mean the rest of us can't get up and help out and make sure we destroy the right in the 2018 mid terms. Keep bitching and complaining if you want, as long as you realize you're part of the problem.
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What exactly have you done? You realize you're saying the right wing won when it's blatantly obvious that there was outside interference from Russia. They didn't demonstrate power or win anything, they stole it. The voters showed it by the popular vote, the documents against Trump, they're basically a sinking ship at this point. The only thing they've done is steal an election for the time being. Yesterday more than anything proved they didn't win, their backs are against the wall, and I guarantee you there will be push back on someone who is the most disliked person to ever take office. Nobody wasted their time yesterday, it got under Trump's skin knowing that a fucking women's march outdid his numbers, why else would he have mentioned it? The only person wasting their time is you, because you haven't done jack shit in the past 24 hours besides bitch and complain. Tell me, how is that doing your part?
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To be fair, the republican party was NOT in control of the process either... the conservatives are, in the long run, the real losers of this election cycle, because they lost their party to the "right wingers". I think it will be easier for the democrats to regroup, because the GOP will have to pretend that everything is honky dory with Trump while he takes a shit on their values... I'm not saying that you're wrong about the vacuum being filled from the right, what I'm saying that it's the default spirit of the times, and not the result of the right having the foresight to build the momentum.
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There is no way in hell Shia LaBeouf is going to survive his 4 year protest stream without having a mental breakdown. I give him a few more days. He looks incredibly on edge. Dude is losing his mind.
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You can't mess up chaos, the guy's unhinged from the start, it will only make him more Shia than ever.
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Conway put's the con in way say's Drumf won't release his tax return's because "people don't care" that and of course.... grizzlies
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You're the one behind if you think that Russia wasn't interfering in swing states, and you obviously have no concept of coastal elite numbers that made up the popular vote. But why should I be surprised when you're displayed nothing but ignorance and a tired argument about the big bad left.
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Congratulations. You have less tact and sense than a high schooler rocking a Che Guevara shirt and Rage Against the Machine on his iPhone.
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So Madonna, of all people, speaks at the women's march, welcoming everyone to the revolution of love, and then tells Trump to go "suck a dick"?
Wow. Class up the ass, Madge. This is the same person that criticizes even the most minute details of her entourage's fashion accessories and forbids her dancers to make eye contact with her.
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She also said she often thought about blowing up the white house. If a non celebrity said something like that, they'd be thrown in prison.
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Exactly. The hypocrisy of this doofus should not go unabated. She's basically shit on whatever message the women's march was trying to get across with her bullshit revolution rhetoric and publicity-seeking comments
If she had spoken eloquently for all women and then Trump turned around and told Madge to "suck my dick" on Twitter, he would be burned on a cross in the middle of the National Mall. Madonna makes a public remark that could easily be interpreted as homophobic, says she fantasizes often about blowing up the white house, and gets treated like some sort of hero.
I want nothing more than to see protests and movements like the kind that transpired this weekend prevail. But when you have dipshits like her up there making remarks like this, you've just assassinated any wide-ranging point that's trying to be made.
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If you think Madonna's unfortunate choice of words is going to dictate what happened yesterday, then I don't know what to tell you. You choose to single out one celebrity out of the dozens that spoke and hundreds of others that marched in other areas, come on that's shallow. Do you think Toby Keith speaks for everyone who casts a vote for the GOP? It's not fair to let one bad egg spoil what happened. Hardly anyone is still talking about it, and even more people know it's a publicity play for someone who hasn't had a hit in ages.
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Right. So I guess that makes it okay then. It was all just an act. She wasn't actually being homophobic with her "suck a dick" remark. She wasn't actually contradicting her "revolution of love" bullshit with her fantasies of blowing up the white house.
Good logic there, KC. It's obvious you just want to fight with as many people in this thread as you possibly can, something I have zero desire to do. Especially when your justification for Madge's hypocrisy is more hypocrisy.
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holy concern troll, batman
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Christ almighty, when did I even mention that what she said was okay? Way to miss to the fucking point completely.
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Some suggest that there are an infinite number of parallel realities where each possible outcome eventually plays out in one of them. If only I could transport myself to the one where Bernie Sanders was just sworn in as President. Of course I’d have to murder the me of that universe, dispose of my corpse, and assume my identity.… Would that be considered murder or suicide? Also, would it be considered identity theft, or not?
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Well considering I saw an Observer on the Inauguration parade route...
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