Free speech is like air, bad guys use it too. As for compassion and conscience, these things seem to have died in political discourse quite a while ago.
I really hadn't intended it to be political. I guess I can understand how it would easily be seen that way though.
I'm just in complete awe of
"appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment."
Coming from the leader of a developed country. Absolutely in awe of the magnitude of... trolling old people, I think. He's trolling old people, SO damn hard.
Edit: Has The Onion truly ever posted anything more hilarious than this tweet? Like, I'm a serious fan of The Onion. But man... this is up there
That doesn't count anymore. We had expert opinions on Russians for three years and it was pure horseshit. We had innocents slandered as racists, sexists and generally deplorable. Trump just uses lies like that against political enemies. While it is not really viable to reciprocate this for a longer time, it is what it is and seems to work.
On the other hand, I need a 4th estate critical about a president. I never heard anything critical about Trumps competitors, so it might indeed be advantageous to vote for him as long as there is no critical press available.
The 4th estate crying bloody murder is what got him elected. Instead of ignoring him, they gave him all the press, and every person ready to put a shiv in the DNC voted for him, knowing he was exactly the kind of torment the DNC couldnt handle.
In the specific case of a wrecking ball, a candidate elected to purposely be a forest fire, any amount of press fans the flame.
He literally knows of just how many people around the U.S., regardless of age - though definitely pointing towards the older internet-illiterate, will literally take the word of the POTUS without a second thought or fuck to their grave.
No, because those 34% vote a lot more and much of the rest doesn't give a fuck and is too lazy to vote. That's how he got elected and how the UK got Brexit.
As comments from raxxorrax exemplify, for the most part his supporters aren't stupid. They know he's lying, they understand it's bullshit. But since the lies and bullshit help their cause and make their enemies apoplectic, they support him and amplify the bullshit. By repeating the bullshit to each other, they demonstrate loyalty to strengthen identity and in-group cohesion.
These tweets need to stay up (perhaps marked as fact-free) so we can all see that the POTUS has a very strong case of narcissistic personality disorder and is most likely a sociopath.
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[ 1.4 ms ] story [ 59.2 ms ] threadHNers of the USA - How can we just... Let this happen? It falls within free speech AFAIK. Is free speech a bad thing then? I really have no answers.
I hope some of you find this at least slightly thought provoking, whatever those thoughts may be.
Misinformation and "lie" are not strong enough words. This is horseshit.
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I find it difficult to believe that the White House administration has any kind of expert opinion backing up this particular tweet.
I'm just in complete awe of
"appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment."
Coming from the leader of a developed country. Absolutely in awe of the magnitude of... trolling old people, I think. He's trolling old people, SO damn hard.
Edit: Has The Onion truly ever posted anything more hilarious than this tweet? Like, I'm a serious fan of The Onion. But man... this is up there
And yes, that tweet is ridiculous - as is the current iteration of the White House.
On the other hand, I need a 4th estate critical about a president. I never heard anything critical about Trumps competitors, so it might indeed be advantageous to vote for him as long as there is no critical press available.
Can you expand on this? I'm pretty sure, for example, that 2016 was -quite- critical about Trump's competition.
In the specific case of a wrecking ball, a candidate elected to purposely be a forest fire, any amount of press fans the flame.
https://nypost.com/2016/11/20/keep-crying-wolf-about-trump-a...
And it doesn't look like they've learnt any lessons in the interim, sadly.
He literally knows of just how many people around the U.S., regardless of age - though definitely pointing towards the older internet-illiterate, will literally take the word of the POTUS without a second thought or fuck to their grave.
“a bigger and bigger share of a smaller and smaller market is a death spiral”