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@frank said in US Politics:
Trump has launched a way to directly communicate with the public.
No replies are allowed.Is this his version of a Presidential Library?
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@frank said in US Politics:
Trump has launched a way to directly communicate with the public.
No replies are allowed.Is this his version of a Presidential Library?
i wonder ,if he does build a presidential library, where there will be a record of this tweets. they're pretty much a "continous" record of his thoughts throughout his presidency, pretty unique for a presidents i would think
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The share links to other platforms is interesting... presumably each post being shared would be checked like any other content being posted? so playing it on a (shared) post by post basis approach I guess.
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@frank said in US Politics:
Trump has launched a way to directly communicate with the public.
No replies are allowed.Is that Twitter..but.. only Trump is allowed on it?
That's hilarious.
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In saying that, the de-platforming of Trump has been hugely successful. He's a complete non-entity now. Really shows how influential Facebook and Twitter are.
The Social Dilemma is worth a watch as well, former staff members talk about how they realised they could significantly influence election results by curating what people see in their feeds etc.
Those companies have far too much influence on society.
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@no-quarter said in US Politics:
In saying that, the de-platforming of Trump has been hugely successful. He's a complete non-entity now. Really shows how influential Facebook and Twitter are.
A bigger part was the loss of the election. You go from hero to zero overnight. Twitter/Facebook are a smaller impact in my opinion
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@nzzp said in US Politics:
@no-quarter said in US Politics:
In saying that, the de-platforming of Trump has been hugely successful. He's a complete non-entity now. Really shows how influential Facebook and Twitter are.
A bigger part was the loss of the election. You go from hero to zero overnight. Twitter/Facebook are a smaller impact in my opinion
Not so sure. People still take notice if Bush/Obama/Carter (and to a lesser extent Clinton) have something to say. They just pick their moments and don't drown out their own voices.
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There was one significant benefit of having Trump on Twitter that I do miss.
Whenever someone proclaimed that 'you only dislike Trump because of fake news and the lamestream media', it was good to be able to reply with sincerity "no, I only have to read a few of his recent Tweets to remember that the man is a git".
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@antipodean “We’re here today for the official opening of the Donald J Trump magazine rack”
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@frank said in US Politics:
It looks as if Dick Cheney's daughter, Liz Cheney, is about to be booted out of House Republican leadership. She is a major opponent of Trump.
It feels to me as if Trump still holds sway over House Republicans, but less so the Senate.
Wasn't she an ally, until that little protest on Capitol hill? I don't have time to find a clearly non-partisan side (this one is allegedly centre-left) but you can verify for yourself the facts..
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@donsteppa said in US Politics:
There was one significant benefit of having Trump on Twitter that I do miss.
Whenever someone proclaimed that 'you only dislike Trump because of fake news and the lamestream media', it was good to be able to reply with sincerity "no, I only have to read a few of his recent Tweets to remember that the man is a git".
So the one advantage of there being a Donald Trump is he reminds you you don't like Donald Trump? I'm not sure that is a clear advantage..
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@jc said in US Politics:
@antipodean “We’re here today for the official opening of the Donald J Trump magazine rack”
Adorned with TV Week and Barely Legal
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@dogmeat said in US Politics:
@donsteppa the biggest, most massive, monumental git in the history of the world - of the universe. BIGGER EVEN THAN THAT!
Despite his unique intergalactic evil, is/was Trump one of the greatest, most powerful human beings of all time?
The great intellectuals of our day seem to think so. His simply standing for election - much less winning - was "a death-knell for the human species" apparently..
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@frank said in US Politics:
It looks as if Dick Cheney's daughter, Liz Cheney, is about to be booted out of House Republican leadership. She is a major opponent of Trump.
It feels to me as if Trump still holds sway over House Republicans, but less so the Senate.
Think the US is deeply divided and the Republican party (and Trump) are simply a reflection of one side of the divide. The idea that dumping the uniquely-evil Trump was going to bridge the divide and improve things looks a bit naive as Biden seems determined to push for a left-wing agenda to appeal to his core radicals just as much as Trump did.
The whole situation isn't helped by the likes of Obama stoking the fire either. In many ways the Obama years created the conditions for Trump to thrive and should just STFU.
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@nostrildamus said in US Politics:
@donsteppa said in US Politics:
There was one significant benefit of having Trump on Twitter that I do miss.
Whenever someone proclaimed that 'you only dislike Trump because of fake news and the lamestream media', it was good to be able to reply with sincerity "no, I only have to read a few of his recent Tweets to remember that the man is a git".
So the one advantage of there being a Donald Trump is he reminds you you don't like Donald Trump? I'm not sure that is a clear advantage..
It was one (small?) advantage of him being allowed to Tweet that I was angling at.
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