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Seth Abramson: "Twitter has let a criminal crime here for 3 years." (Original Post) triron Dec 2019 OP
K&R smirkymonkey Dec 2019 #1
Gotta love the fact, that Trump has turned the word "crime" dewsgirl Dec 2019 #2
verbing weirds language ... Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2019 #3
LoL cute. dewsgirl Dec 2019 #4
Indeed! calimary Dec 2019 #5
My favorite cartoons. So innocently bold. ancianita Dec 2019 #9
Agree! Nt spooky3 Dec 2019 #21
I always wished I could draw like him. BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2019 #13
Prophetic indeed randr Dec 2019 #14
My brain first turned that into "slime", but I like the new verb erronis Dec 2019 #12
It does, doesn't it. triron Dec 2019 #17
Twitter and Facebook were instrumental in Trump's rise to power. dalton99a Dec 2019 #6
Yep, along with the media, the Russians, and certain rogue elements of the FBI. triron Dec 2019 #15
+1 Duppers Dec 2019 #16
Always Follow The Money DallasNE Dec 2019 #7
Without a doubt, a double standard dlk Dec 2019 #8
As With Everything DanieRains Dec 2019 #10
Retweeted. Thanx Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2019 #11
Thanks Twitter for allowing tRump to dumb it down Blue Owl Dec 2019 #18
the most important reason Trump's Twitter account should be taken away NJCher Dec 2019 #19
Glad you got rid of her mokawanis Dec 2019 #23
I have always been suspicious of Melania Trump's cyber bullying causes. gordianot Dec 2019 #20
Heavyweight evidence bucolic_frolic Dec 2019 #22

erronis

(15,328 posts)
12. My brain first turned that into "slime", but I like the new verb
Sun Dec 29, 2019, 03:15 PM
Dec 2019

Really works well for the trumpf family and (r)epuglicons.

DallasNE

(7,403 posts)
7. Always Follow The Money
Sun Dec 29, 2019, 02:18 PM
Dec 2019

Yes, it is technically legal but it represent moral corruption on a large scale. Money forces Twitter to selectively enforce their policy which opens them to discrimination charges. Facebook faces the same dilemma for the same reason - money. They sell their soul to the all mighty dollar.

Blue Owl

(50,494 posts)
18. Thanks Twitter for allowing tRump to dumb it down
Sun Dec 29, 2019, 09:26 PM
Dec 2019

so his mouth-breathing legion of idiots can understand him

NJCher

(35,726 posts)
19. the most important reason Trump's Twitter account should be taken away
Sun Dec 29, 2019, 09:37 PM
Dec 2019

It's his club that he uses to get his way.

He uses it to intimidate people--to call them names, to insult them, to embarrass them, to humiliate and denigrate them (although decent people know that it's the name caller who humiliates and denigrates himself). This is how he keeps people in line. Few people want to go through such nastiness in public.

This is how he is keeping the Senate in his camp. This is how he perverts the way democracy is supposed to work.

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About 8 years ago I taught at a university where the president of the union was unprofessional like Trump. Her tactic was exactly like Trump's. She would call a person names, she would make up names, she would start rumors, etc. If you spoke up against her, she would even go so far as to work against you getting a decent course load. She would call up department heads and bad mouth union members--her own dues-paying members that she was supposed to be serving.

I and a few other union members organized against her and it was really hard to get people on board, even though they despised her tactics. This is why so many people stay in Trump's camp.

Get rid of his club (Twitter) and his power will crumble.

p.s. we eventually got rid of her.

mokawanis

(4,452 posts)
23. Glad you got rid of her
Mon Dec 30, 2019, 01:04 PM
Dec 2019

Does my heart good to hear that people like that get the results they deserve. Now if tRump would just go away.

gordianot

(15,243 posts)
20. I have always been suspicious of Melania Trump's cyber bullying causes.
Mon Dec 30, 2019, 11:26 AM
Dec 2019

A favorite Trump tactic is to accuse others of what you are doing. This is what happens living with a Malignant Narcissist.

bucolic_frolic

(43,281 posts)
22. Heavyweight evidence
Mon Dec 30, 2019, 12:34 PM
Dec 2019

being bandied about on Twitter surrounding delay of Ukraine aid and testimony from Mulvaney, Pompeo. How McConnell snuffs this without creating a public uproar and knee-capping rule of law and the nation's court system is anybody's guess. My bet is he can't go down that road. Barr has no written testimony or report to redact and edit here. Transcripts won't carry water. This is where it gets real.

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