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by ttt0 1990 days ago
Okay, so the solution to calm these crazy people down is for twitter to ban Trump and then post his tweets that supposedly call for violence on their blog, so the Streisand effect will kick in and even more people will see it? I think that at this point you have to ask yourself whether twitter's goal is actually stopping the violence and not provoking it.
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dragontamer 1990 days ago
Its not about stopping these messages.

Its about stopping the messages Trump would have sent next two weeks. You know, when the attacks on the inauguration are planned (The 17th is also popping up as another attack date, but I dunno if that has any actual symbolism going on...)

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ttt0 1990 days ago
Planned attack? No, I'm afraid I don't know anything about that.

The latest video that Trump posted there was that the protestors will be prosecuted and that he basically concedes and will transition power over to Biden. At no point, including his latest tweets on the @POTUS account that were deleted within minutes, have I seen anything that would suggest that he's planning any kind of "attack". And in fact, I see it the opposite way. If my reading of the situation is correct, he's trying to control the damage and calm down his base precisely so nothing like this will happen, because he believes that there is still future for him, as the tweet in question suggest. It could very well be that he was the only person that was keeping his supporters from starting the actual uprising and not whatever the Capitol thing was. And now it might be gone.

Obviously that's my opinion, but if you actually don't want any violence to happen, you better hope that I'm wrong about this.

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dragontamer 1990 days ago
Trump isn't planning the attack.

Parlor / thedonald.win are planning it. The question is whether or not the president will take advantage of those groups and try to coordinate them better.

Without a head, those groups ability to coordinate an attack would be hampered.

Google and Apple are banning parlor and other apps too, cutting off cell phone traffic.

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dillondoyle 1990 days ago
That's fair!
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