EPTUS Politics Mega-thread - Page 2992
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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StasisField
United States1086 Posts
On January 09 2021 09:56 mierin wrote: After all of this is said and done, I just hope the democratic party doesn't take this as a "well now we can nominate our most conservative candidates because they can't be worse than people like trump" situation. I know I'm being greedy but definitely foresee this as a consequence of this total republican party meltdown. For example, universal health care...there are a lot of corporations lobbying against that. If Trump and his supporters are so awful, how about we support candidates that aren't as bad, but won't consider anything like UHC because they accept our donations? Man, you're gonna hate this next guy we got coming in 12 days.. | ||
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
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Starlightsun
United States1405 Posts
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Mohdoo
United States15743 Posts
Reddit, Google, Facebook, Discord, Twitter, Twitch what else is next? I think TD loses its hosting pretty soon. | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
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KwarK
United States44195 Posts
On January 09 2021 11:21 Starlightsun wrote: Or as the president of the united states he could do press conferences, issue statements etc. It's so ridiculous how reliant he is on twitter in the first place. This is a fair point. | ||
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Disclaimer, it is of course a parody account - but it was believable enough that no one realized that at first. | ||
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PhoenixVoid
Canada32754 Posts
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Zambrah
United States7393 Posts
On January 09 2021 11:49 PhoenixVoid wrote: McConnell's laid out the Senate rules for an impeachment which seems all but inevitable. The memo says there must be unanimous consent from every senator to participate in an impeachment trial before January 19 (if I'm reading this correctly). Otherwise, the impeachment occurs during the first days of Biden's presidency and they'll be arguing to strip Trump of his Secret Service protection, his pension and right to hold office from what I'm reading outside of the memo. Schumer would be Senate Majority Leader by then, and it would probably tangle Biden down when he would love to get to work on passing the stimulus and moving for pandemic relief. https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1347722877521567747 So they're planning to punt it to Biden so they can try and make it a completely partisan thing and try and keep their Trump base? Republicans are scumbags and even in one of the darkest hours in modern American history they're choosing to protect their own power over holding one of their own accountable from incitement of a literal coup. Christ. | ||
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
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Mohdoo
United States15743 Posts
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Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
Yes Cruz, Biden's vicious rhetoric is the problem for calling you out. Not yours for getting several people killed and dozens wounded. | ||
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Zambrah
United States7393 Posts
Lets let the Republicans talk about unity for once, frankly I want to see Democrats become aggressive and adversarial in their exertion of power much in the way that Republicans are. Pin them as fascists, always, always, always frame them as fascist coup-inciters. Democrats should be on a non-stop offensive focusing almost exclusively on every Senator and every House GOP member that voted against certifying the election results. Never give Republicans the opportunity to frame things, always have them on the back foot. Turn the tables for once, and try and force some electoral gains out of this egregious display of party solidarity in support of proto-fascist insurrectionists. | ||
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9953 Posts
These companies put Trump in charge by deliberately spreading heinously stupid conspiracy theory, allowing precious user information to find its way to the likes of Cambridge Analytica, and then supported his presidency and celebrated every single time he got them in the news with whatever he was posting on social media. What's the point in just banning Trump when he's got thousands of supporters saying the same things right now this second on Twitter? Okay i get its kinda necessary, but in all honesty they just want the kudos, and they should and could do much, much more. | ||
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Dan HH
Romania9235 Posts
On January 09 2021 10:43 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Now Google (With Apple setting a deadline as well) has removed Parler from the play store. So that is now a closed community if Trump and Co. decide to go there. Two companies having near complete control on what the whole world consumes on their phones is fucked up though, we'll have to deal with this problem and its inherent extortion at some point. | ||
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m4ini
4215 Posts
Twitter, Facebook and Google are not good actors here. They are in a PR arms race. And? Who gives a shit? Someone doing good for the wrong reasons is still doing good. This absolute nonsense of "yeah but they're not meaning it" is so aggravating, equal to "he has 50 million, so why is he only donating 1 million, what an asshole". In fact, they don't get much kudos either. Everywhere you look people are actually calling them out for not reacting sooner, so i don't see your point at all in the first place. Two companies having near complete control on what the whole world consumes on their phones is fucked up though, we'll have to deal with this problem and its inherent extortion at some point. They don't, though. They have control over what apps you can download, information usually doesn't come from apps but from websites. I don't think i've ever used an app, ever, to consume news. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46227 Posts
On January 09 2021 11:15 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: Can't he just have Don Jr tweet things like 'My dad said that ....' I would love to see Don Jr. (and anyone else) banned over this. | ||
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9953 Posts
On January 09 2021 13:27 m4ini wrote: And? Who gives a shit? Someone doing good for the wrong reasons is still doing good. This absolute nonsense of "yeah but they're not meaning it" is so aggravating, equal to "he has 50 million, so why is he only donating 1 million". This depends on the context doesn't it? It could be like saying 'he gave 1 million to rape victims but then he also spent the last year giving 49 million to defend rapists in court' Twitter CREATED this problem, and the negative effects of that are going to last way longer than the positive effects of banning Trump now, and there's absolutely nothing stopping the same thing from happening again. | ||
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