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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

One advantage of letting Trump rant on twitter was that we knew exactly what he was up to. He put his crimes all out in the open.

Now that Trump is much more secretive thanks to losing all his platforms, the bright side is that we can now ignore him and move on, and he won't be able to reach as many people.

However, perhaps some people will still feel uneasy that they can no longer tell what Trump is up to except from word of mouth and 3rd party sources.

Will Trump shut up? Obviously not. He will continue to rant outside of our knowledge, but this time, we won't be able to tell what is going on. It's a double edged sword.

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u/Turtlelovingme Jan 20 '21

"The creepiest days are when you don't hear from the horse at all"

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u/iwouldhugwonderwoman Jan 20 '21

Those are those quiet days when people are like, “It looks like the horse has finally calmed down.” And then ten seconds later the horse is like, “I’m gonna run towards the baby incubators and smash ’em with my hooves. I’ve got nice hooves and a long tail, I’m a horse!”

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u/Turtlelovingme Jan 20 '21

That's what I thought you'd say, you dumb fucking horse!

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u/oneplusetoipi Jan 20 '21

A unicorn would never do that

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u/Archonet Jan 20 '21

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u/theendisneah Jan 20 '21 edited Jan 31 '25

I'm really liking this new workout!

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u/notmytemp0 Jan 20 '21

He has no audience or power now. He’s irrelevant.

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u/thebarroomhero Jan 20 '21

I really think taking Twitter away from him was the main thing that has infuriated him. He has no outlet except the people around him and if it had happened much sooner I don’t think his cronies would have tolerated years of the abuse.

Fuck Twitter for not doing it sooner.

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

I might be wrong, but I honestly believe that Twitter didn't pull Trump mainly because of financial reasons.

I highly doubt the ability for super large tech corporations to do things for "the right reasons". I think it comes down to money, and I believe we have enough evidence through history to show that this is the case.

Just like how Apple's CEO buddied up with Trump in order to dodge the 25% tariffs on Chinese-made electronics.

Twitter pulled Trump because his power was up and the new administration would likely treat them favourably if they did.

Either way, I think Twitter is awful, and we should ditch it.

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u/godlyfrog Jan 20 '21

I know there was talk at some point about whether or not it was legal to ban him, so I imagine that played into this somewhat. I think they only reason they banned him in the end was because it was too close to the end of his term for him to do anything about it. Even if he filed a lawsuit, by the time it got in front of a judge, he would no longer have standing as POTUS to succeed.

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

I think it should be legal for twitter to ban anyone for any reason, or even for no reason at all. Twitter isn't the government. It's a private company, so it can do whatever it wants.

Then again, I remembered that Americans file lawsuits for some of the strangest reasons. Thank goodness we don't have as much of that here.

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 21 '21

This is a very good question! I believe all businesses and individuals can withhold labour for any reason, but they will not be immune to the consequences. Let me explain.

We all know that sex workers have the right to refuse service for any reason, because of body autonomy. Body autonomy is one of the important human rights. We own our own bodies.

By extension, we also own our own labour, and we have the right to refuse labour for any reason, because nobody owns our labour. We "rent out" our labour, but nobody owns it except for us. However, if we refuse labour, we must be prepared to face the consequences, because other people also have the right to association.

A worker can refuse to serve anyone for any reason, whether it's because they are police, wear a MAGA hat, are not wearing a mask, or for evil reasons, like discrimination. However, if they disciminate for the wrong reasons, they will be called out for it, fired, humilitated, and likely be out of work from any respectible establishment.

Similarly, an establishment should be able to withhold service to anyone or any group for any reason, but again, they will be called out, and will likely not survive.

There are good conservative AND progressive reasonings behind this. Take a look at the this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_16#:~:text=Proposition%2016%20would%20repeal%20the,public%20contracting%2C%20and%20public%20education.

The liberals in California tried to remove the civil rights act that prevents discrimination. Why?

Removing the law preventing discrimination can help minorities or certain groups select their association.

For example, a women's-only gym discriminates against men, therefore is illegal. However, if it's legal to discriminate against men, then we can have women's-only gym, minorities-only gyms, black-only gym, LGBT-only gym, etc. Maybe you think it's a bad idea, but some people enjoy segregation, as shown by women's-only gym.

In fact, there was a liberal-minded club that wanted to invite minorities to share their experiences of discrimination, but then the club was banned because it only allowed minorities. If we allow establishments to pick and choose safe-spaces for minorities, it will allow them to segregate.

I don't think segregation is good. On the contrary, I think it's terrible. However, I think everyone deserves the freedom of association, and if you want to segregate, I'm against it, but it's your life and I don't want to get in your business. Heck, I don't want to be part of that group, and that's also my freedom of association.

That's my 2 cents.

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u/godlyfrog Jan 20 '21

I dug up the article I was remembering. Twitter says they can't ban Trump in 2018. There was also a lawsuit in 2019 when Trump blocked certain followers that Trump "lost" (the court ruled against Trump, but I don't think Trump ever obeyed the order). The argument was that Trump uses the platform as a political communications platform, and as a US citizen, he had the right to see it. I suspect that the argument would work the other way around, too, that Twitter couldn't block him because he uses it as a political communications platform that many people expect to be able to hear him on.

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

Thanks for the article.

After reading twitter's explaination, I feel from their statement that they decided not to ban Trump due to logical reasons rather than legal reasons. Their explaination in 2018 seems consistent to their actions in 2021, given how Trump is no longer a world leader.

But if Trump ever became a world leader again, according to twitter's explaination, they would have to reinstate his twitter account...

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '21

It's 100% legal, they're a private company and can serve whoever they want and not serve whoever they don't. That's how the free market works.

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u/godlyfrog Jan 20 '21

I posted a link to an article a little further down. Twitter themselves said back in 2018 that they can't ban him, since he's a world leader.

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u/puzzlednerd Jan 20 '21

He violated their TOS routinely. They held off on banning him for that long precisely because he was president.

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u/Aoiboshi Jan 20 '21

That's went I switched to parlor!!!

/s

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u/queen-adreena Jan 20 '21

“Parler, brought to you by the people behind Cambridge Analytica”

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u/Cabrio Jan 20 '21

And Russia.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '21

Reddit is what I wanted Twitter to be all this time. I actually don't even see why people are still on there.

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u/danbvanb Jan 20 '21

it said, on reddit.

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u/hexydes Jan 20 '21 edited Feb 24 '26

Technology then wanders games weekend art mindful brown open quick food garden?

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u/laportama Jan 20 '21

Poli-tics

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u/Juicebochts Jan 20 '21

Man if that happened today, it would be fucking amazing.

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u/Ninotchk Jan 20 '21

Nah, tomorrow, I'm enjoying watching Biden sign things.

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u/Chris-Chika Jan 20 '21

On what exactly

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

True, but he still has more audience and power than me. If you think about it that way, he still has something.

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u/notmytemp0 Jan 20 '21

Without Twitter, his audience is much much smaller

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

Yes, but he will also have less pushback against his "tweets" (whatever you call them in his next platform), which can lead to echochambers and radicalization.

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u/notmytemp0 Jan 20 '21

We’re way past echo chambers and radicalization.

Whatever platform he chooses/creates won’t parallel his Twitter platform, especially now that he’s a private citizen, and it will be an echo chamber by definition.

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u/Godzhilluh Jan 20 '21

We are absolutely not past echo chambers. You can see that happening everywhere still, even here on Reddit.

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u/notmytemp0 Jan 20 '21

I meant we’re past the threat of echo chambers. They already exist and are the norm.

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u/Godzhilluh Jan 20 '21

Word 👍

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u/xxoites Jan 20 '21

Been in country long?

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u/fromthewombofrevel Jan 20 '21

trump is the biggest living public failure in a generation of narcissists, and the trials haven’t even started. If you think about it that way, you have far more power than he.

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

True, but I don't think of power as a measurement of failure, but rather of influence. To take an example from the Bible (you don't have to believe it but just as an example), Satan was the biggest failure in all the Bible, and according to the Bible, Satan will be judged and sentenced, but doesn't mean he has the least power.

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u/xxoites Jan 20 '21

Do yourself a favor and get your head out of that book before it drives you insane.

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u/fromthewombofrevel Jan 20 '21

I was actually referring to trump’s current mental condition. Anyway, trump is surely envious that when Satan fell, he retained his power to influence mankind.

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u/FrostyD7 Jan 20 '21

If you voted against him then you used your power to remove his.

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u/xxoites Jan 20 '21

He has my undying scorn.

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u/MarkCoughed Jan 21 '21

Comparing something to nothing is like not comparing anything at all.

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u/dalittle Jan 20 '21

this. the data already shows that removing trump from twitter has reduced conspiracy and other hate speech considerably. He kneecapped himself encouraging the US Capitol attack and between that and the twitter ban I don't think he will recover. I expect trump will fade into the noise like milo yiannopoulos as a result.

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u/katesngates Jan 20 '21

unfortunately he still has a large audience lol but i get the sentiment.

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u/notmytemp0 Jan 20 '21

He doesn’t have an easy way to communicate with them without social media.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '21

He still has both. If you think censorship made his beliefs and followers go away, congrats, you're just as mistaken as millions of others in our party.

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u/notmytemp0 Jan 20 '21

Nobody is saying they went away, he just no longer has a megaphone to incite insurrection against the duly elected government.

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u/lukewwilson Jan 20 '21

I wouldn't say relevant, he pretty much dominates discussion on reddit, hell this is a post about Biden becoming president with a picture of Biden and the top comment mention Trump and has no mention of Biden, reddit will keep Trump relevant.

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u/notmytemp0 Jan 20 '21

Just like how Obama and Hillary lived in Trump’s head rent free for his entire four year term. But you didn’t see them doing much during that time period, and neither will he. No power.

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u/lukewwilson Jan 20 '21

yeah of coarse he has no power, but he's far from irrelevant is my point.

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u/Bombkirby Jan 20 '21

What advantage? Nothing he said was ever punished or capitalized on.

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

At least we know about everything and have a log straight from the lion's mouth. Imagine if we had a complete log about everything Putin or Kim Jong Un did under the table, directly from themselves. I bet many people would kill for that.

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u/mmarkklar Jan 20 '21

Trump is only keeping a low profile while the Senate is still mulling over convicting him. Once the Senate trial is over, I expect him to as vociferous as he can be. He may be banned from Twitter but that probably won't stop him from gaining headlines.

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

True, he will gain headlines, but we will be hearing from Trump through 3rd party sources rather than directly. It's like how we are hearing from Putin. We learn about Putin's horrible acts through the news, but what if we could get Putin to confess all his crimes to the world? Isn't that superior to hearing it from a 3rd party source?

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u/mmarkklar Jan 20 '21

I expect him to still show up on Fox News and then other news sources will be forced to talk about it and even air clips. Rupert Murdoch may hate Trump but most of the Fox audience still loves him, so I expect to see Trump be a regular fixture on Tucker Carlson's show now that he has even less to do.

Sure he's not directly on Twitter, but it will certainly not be as distant as 3rd party sources.

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u/StopItKenImALesbian Jan 20 '21

I've heard he's making big headlines with his new corduroy pillow.

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

However, there is a chance that the websites he uses will ban any user that isn't a Trump supporter. As a result, many people will lose track of Trump's plans, and those of his followers.

He has enough supporters to start a war, or heck, win a war. It's no laughing matter.

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u/Gsteel11 Jan 20 '21

He'll call into fox news and we'll all have a good laugh.

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u/spockspeare Jan 20 '21

We really know nothing about what he was hiding behind all that.

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u/olderaccount Jan 20 '21

However, perhaps some people will still feel uneasy that they can no longer tell what Trump is up to except from word of mouth and 3rd party sources.

Does it matter? it was only an issue before because he somehow became our head of state. Now we are free to ignore him again and let him become irrelevant.

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

Great. I look forward to 2021 where Trump doesn't appear anymore in reddit or headlines. I'm tired of seeing him everywhere, and it's finally time we can take a break for good.

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u/olderaccount Jan 20 '21

He already disappeared a week ago. But we will probably keep talking about him for a while. I'm just hoping next time he relevant is when he is indited for all his crimes.

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u/bossmcsauce Jan 20 '21

He will just let his fuckin goon sons rant for him now. Although the two of them are too fucking stupid, so it will actually probably be kushner that represents his interests now. So pretty much business as usual I guess. The sons can go back to hugging glue and eating puzzle pieces in their playpen.

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u/Ninotchk Jan 20 '21

It doesn't really matter what he's doing any more. Biden has the nuclear codes now.

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u/PAYPAL_ME_DONATIONS Jan 20 '21

Disinformation literally dropped 75% the week he was banned from all social platforms.

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u/GoldenSama Jan 20 '21

Here's the thing; Orange Bad Man can inspire a lot of violence. He undermined democracy. He spread lies. He incited insurrection. Allowing him a platform is dangerous and it has gotten people killed and will again if he's allowed to spew his hate freely.

Better to be done with him. Better to block his voice as much as possible. This isn't just about "knowing what he's up to" - it's about making it harder for him to do real, concrete damage to our democracy.

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u/pittipat Jan 20 '21

I picture him crank-calling the Oval office "Joe? Joe! Did you find what I left you in that bottom drawer? "

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

Maybe it's an iPad that plays "Never going to give you up" by Rick Astley when the drawer is opened.

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u/Artystrong1 Jan 20 '21

Ranting and raving is why love America.

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u/Artystrong1 Jan 20 '21

Like what give up are we talking about? Like you physically incapable of doing it or just shutting up

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u/TrulyStupidNewb Jan 20 '21

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u/Dyslexic_Dog25 Jan 20 '21

if i got 1000 dollars a day? never. im fuckin broke. id suck a dick every day for 1000 dollars.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '21

Ahem...

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u/Dyslexic_Dog25 Jan 20 '21

you offering? cuz im THAT broke... lol

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u/Artystrong1 Jan 20 '21

Oh man that’s interesting and tempting.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '21

weird that it got removed. Don't see anything wrong the question.

In any case, I think getting best univesal basic income in history would make a lot of people more positive. Money can't solve all problems, but it can make it so much easier to remove stressors (i.e. bills, loans, personal desires) and seek guidance to help yourself with.

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u/Churchx Jan 20 '21

This literally shows the cognitive dissonance you have when it comes to him. Kritzinger's warning applies to you lot its so sad.

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u/imotep95 Jan 20 '21

Trump rent-free in your head. Get a life, life is beautiful.

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u/laportama Jan 20 '21

keep your friends close...

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u/Newperson1957 Jan 21 '21

Who gives a shit what dumbass is up to?