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It’s not a comment. There are thousands of comments under his tweets. I would say it’s more like a warning label or addendum.
May 28, 2020 at 07:03
I never said twitter doesn’t have the right to do what they want with their property. I’m saying it’s wrong to alter someone’s expression and essentia...
May 28, 2020 at 06:19
Nothing to do with law, pal.
May 28, 2020 at 05:55
Sure it is.
May 28, 2020 at 05:50
Saying a comment isn’t proven is one thing, but an entity stamping their mark of approval on a comment is another.
May 28, 2020 at 05:49
Yeah, you might be right as far as “the right” is concerned. I don’t see why a president shouldn’t able to say what he wants. I’d be interested to hea...
May 28, 2020 at 05:46
It’s just speech. You could scan the annals of medicine and find not a single person injured by words. If you don’t believe in free speech for everyon...
May 28, 2020 at 05:13
I would, yes. Like you said, we expect our statements to stand and fall on their own merits. Others can use their own mind and expression to dispute i...
May 28, 2020 at 04:25
Imagine if I edited your post, applied my warning to it, and hijacked it in order to link to contrary information. The one time trump mentions regulat...
May 28, 2020 at 02:19
As twitter has proven, some pencil-neck in Silicon Valley can editorialize on the president’s tweets, alter them, and use the bully pulpit to push his...
May 27, 2020 at 23:09
Why would you do nothing? Fear? Bystander effect? I‘m sure others would not hold you responsible for doing nothing, but I suspect anyone with a consci...
May 27, 2020 at 21:31
Another recent case of mail-in voter fraud, posted by the DOJ just today. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndwv/pr/pendleton-county-mail-carrier-charged-a...
May 27, 2020 at 17:41
In the US it depends on the state. Though some states do not require an excuse, some do.
May 27, 2020 at 17:06
Trump also said there should be valid reasons for mail in voting, for instance when the president is unable to attend a polling station in Florida. Bu...
May 27, 2020 at 16:58
Right. Twitter’s “head of site integrity” is a weasily, smug little anti-Trumper who compares Trump to Hitler on a routine basis. What Trump said abou...
May 27, 2020 at 16:29
Yeah, I don’t see why conservatives don’t just change platforms. If a few woke, PC billionaires are going to try to become the gatekeepers of informat...
May 27, 2020 at 16:17
The Facebook video of the cop kneeling on a man’s neck. The bystanders could see what was going on. The man said he couldn’t breathe. He was already c...
May 26, 2020 at 21:38
Jesus Christ. Everyone could see he was choking the man to death. The cop knew what he was doing.
May 26, 2020 at 21:03
Isn’t Johnson a conservative? I think in political terms it’s less left and right as it is authoritarian vs libertarian.
May 26, 2020 at 20:47
Only one being can occupy his own space and time, and in that sense each one of us is wholly original and one of a kind. On those grounds I think ever...
May 26, 2020 at 20:32
Are you the type to let people speak ill of you and your family? A punching bag? You’ll just sit there and take it, submission, perhaps even with a sm...
May 26, 2020 at 16:17
They sling it at him. They deserve it.
May 26, 2020 at 08:45
It was actually sourcing a controversial French documentary, not that you’d care to be accurate. I don’t know Russian. Watch it if you wish. https://y...
May 26, 2020 at 08:39
"I would vote for Joe Biden if he boiled babies and ate them. He wasn’t my candidate, but taking back the White House is that important." https://www....
May 25, 2020 at 17:38
A senate probe will suffice. I suppose Ukraine should want to know why the previous American administration was meddling in their politics, as well.
May 25, 2020 at 16:02
Oh look, it’s John McCain with Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the Svoboda party. http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/2013/Dec/16/cain-rep...
May 25, 2020 at 16:00
An investigation into Biden is warranted because his son was on the board of a corrupt Ukrainian energy company at the same time his father was vice-p...
May 24, 2020 at 21:03
Either you’re a liar or you don’t know what injury means. Was it your fee-fees that we’re injured and hurt?
May 24, 2020 at 20:44
These are the “injuries” you’re talking about? In other words, not injuries. Sorry, but these policies were a first step towards re-establishing contr...
May 24, 2020 at 20:34
Another epidemiological model based on the Ferguson model further proves itself to be little more than baseless misinformation, and worse, misinformat...
May 24, 2020 at 20:24
I’m not aware of any injuries inflicted by the man. Jeff Sessions and other establishment rhinos got exactly what they deserved.
May 24, 2020 at 19:56
Which people?
May 24, 2020 at 19:46
If you were hitting back at people who spoke about you unfairly I would be by your side defending you, and admiring you while doing so. But since you’...
May 24, 2020 at 19:41
I didn’t criticize what Biden said on the phone. I simply posted the leaked call and quoted how Zelensky described it. I also predicted how it might b...
May 24, 2020 at 19:39
I like Trump and think he is a great president. I’ve never hidden that. I am also one of those bad supporters. But anti-Trumpism is, in my mind, far w...
May 24, 2020 at 17:07
I’m not sure “terrible” is a fair and accurate description.
May 23, 2020 at 17:29
You have constructed an effigy upon which you can swing your pitchforks in sight of everyone else.
May 23, 2020 at 17:21
Trump has become a folk hero to some. But to others he has become a folk devil, a scape goat for the world’s ills and evils. This is what occurs when ...
May 23, 2020 at 16:08
Why would you do that? Sounds tedious.
May 22, 2020 at 17:34
Some rumblings from Ukraine. Leaked calls between Quid Pro Joe and former Ukrainian president Poroshenko have been leaked, giving ammunition to the Bi...
May 22, 2020 at 14:23
I think they’re consistent, and honest. Choosing to wear a mask or not doesn’t have to be a form of ostentation. I think the question should be: how a...
May 22, 2020 at 05:14
Since your standard of what constitutes a successful argument is only held to skeptics of lockdowns, there is little to no incentive to do the work. S...
May 21, 2020 at 19:14
Agreed. I think her arguments are important and cause for concern, and it would do us well to focus on those instead of the reliability of those who a...
May 21, 2020 at 17:21
I trying to make a joke about wikipedia. But wikipedia at least cites their information. Luckily I can click on the cited link and see where the infor...
May 21, 2020 at 16:42
Only one article by one doctor was skeptical of the idea that HIV caused AIDS. Though I think publishing the commentary is questionable, there is no e...
May 21, 2020 at 16:27
I think the reasoning of the WHO is that there was, as of the time of their guidance, little scientific evidence of their efficacy in certain situatio...
May 21, 2020 at 07:01
That is likely true of people who like to signal to others, for whatever reason. But absent the motive to show off, there are many other valid reasons...
May 21, 2020 at 06:56
According to the WHO, if you do not have symptoms you do not need to wear a mask. https://youtu.be/Ded_AxFfJoQ According to the WHO, masks can give yo...
May 21, 2020 at 05:49
Since we’re spouting conspiracy theories, maybe big pharma doesn’t like hydroxycloroquine because it’s super cheap and has been in use for decades. Ma...
May 19, 2020 at 16:02
I’m a little more cynical. Why else would they pooh-pooh freedom unless they were justifying denying it to others, or admitting that they were by natu...
May 18, 2020 at 18:03