[travismark]

a better idea - tell Trump he can have his Facebook back if he agrees to go on talk radio and cable news and tell his supporters that he was lying to them all along, there is no evidence of meaningful voter fraud, and it's time to move on. only when enough of the supporters are finally convinced of this can he have his account back (or 6 months, whichever is greater)

[tenebrisalietum]

Seems to be a new account. Welcome to HN!

Anyway, why are you mixing up these two things?

- inciting violence at the Capitol

- claims of voter fraud.

He's been claiming voter fraud since before November 8th, and he didn't get banned then, so obviously that has nothing to do with it.

[zmmmmm]

You have a valid point, but

> so obviously that has nothing to do with it

is very much taking it too far. It's clear the voter fraud is the primary motivation he is using to incite the riots, and for many of the rioters it is their moral basis underpinning their actions.

[admiralspoo]

"All he has to do is say there are five lights"

[gameswithgo]

it would be interesting to redo that episode, where there ARE actually 5 lights but picard keeps insisting their are 4 out of spite

[doubleunplussed]

Fwiw at the end of the episode Picard says to Riker: "You know, I really did see five lights".

[hawkice]

At the end, wasn't the comment that he believed he _could_ see five lights?

It's possible this is a deliberate grammatical ambiguity, but I think it could also be read as "I was not just willing to say it, my reality was being destroyed".

[crooked-v]

PICARD: I, er, I don't know where to begin. It was...

TROI: I read your report.

PICARD: What I didn't put in the report was that at the end he gave me a choice between a life of comfort or more torture. All I had to do was to say that I could see five lights, when in fact, there were only four.

TROI: You didn't say it?

PICARD: No, no, but I was going to. I would have told him anything. Anything at all. But more than that, I believed that I could see five lights.