Water John wrote: » It's all about the 100,000. The US will hit that milestone today. Trump is distracting, same play all the time.
spacecoyote wrote: » Pretty sure they cleared 100k yesterday? These guys have them currently just short of 102https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
fullstop wrote: » Executive order incoming pertaining to social media. ****ing LOL.
Call me Al wrote: » The US has 28% of covid world deaths, and 30% of the world's cases. And trump is pissing around with twitter because they've just checked him when he wasn't being truthful.
Blueshoe wrote: » Yoel Roth who is one of the head honchos involved with Twitters fact checking program has previously tweeted that "There are actual Nazis in the white house now" and called trump a "racist tangerine" More biased interference. I would say Roth's goose is cooked
Overheal wrote: » Trump is racist, and exceptionally orange For a human. That’s true. When he wrote that there were actual nazis in the White House. Steve Bannon. Trump trolls have tried to go after Roth for this? No wonder Twitter is standing behind their guy.
TomOnBoard wrote: » I doubt that, when the concept of Nazis in the White House was being considersd, the soft and cuddly Stephen Miller was far from anyone's mind...
Cookie_Monster wrote: » you know I'd almost almost forgive Trump everything if he killed Twitter. It's such a cesspit of a communication tool and is ruining the way major events and happenings get reported. I hate reading a news article interspersed with pointless tweets or trying to read a tweet stream from a journalist whose only concern seemingly is to get news out fast rather than in a well written, detailed and useful piece. Brexit news is the same, from the outside it at times looks like negotiation by twitter the way we see things. Dumbing down news to fit into a 140 (or whatever it is now) character blip has done a disservice to humanity as a whole.
Overheal wrote: » My initial draft mentioned him but I think Bannon shines on his own
TomOnBoard wrote: » And while Trump moans and whinges about how unfair Twitter is to him, on the day the number of deaths passes 100,000, Biden tweets this:https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1265757168504049664?s=20 In case you can't get tweets in your device, here's the main part of his address: "There are moments in our history so grim, so heart-rending, that they’re forever fixed in each of our hearts as shared grief. Today is one of those moments. 100,000 lives have now been lost to this virus here in the United States alone. Each one leaving behind a family that will never again be whole. I think I know what you’re feeling. You feel like you’re being sucked into a black hole in the middle of your chest. It’s suffocating. Your heart is broken. There’s nothing but a feeling of emptiness right now. For most of you, you weren’t able to be there when you lost your beloved family member or best friend. For most of you, you weren’t able to be there when they died alone. With the pain, the anger, and the frustration, you’ll wonder whether or not you’ll be able to get anywhere from here. It’s made all the worse by knowing that this is a fateful milestone that we should have never reached that could have been avoided. According to a study done by Columbia University, if the administration had acted just one week earlier to implement social distancing, and do what it had to do, just one week sooner as many as 36,000 of these deaths might have been averted. To all of you who are hurting so badly, I’m so sorry for your loss. I know there is nothing I or anyone else can say or do to dull the sharpness of the pain that you feel right now, but I can promise you from experience, the day will come when the memory of your loved one will bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes. My prayer for all of you is that day will come sooner rather than later, but I promise you it will come, and when it does, you know you can make it. God bless each and every one of you, and the blessed memory of the one you lost. The nation grieves with you. Take some solace from the fact we all grieve with you. " What a contrast!!!
TomOnBoard wrote: » So, you have a big issue with Twitter. . Fair enough.. why not start a thread on why Twitter is so bad outside of here? Like, your views on Twitter are valid but are actually irrelevant here and posting this stuff here deflects from consideration of the real poison to US Democracy that is Trump. And I'm sure you wouldn't support that.
peddlelies wrote: » Can of worms will be opened with that twitter situation, they should have left it alone. Don't like Trump then vote him out in November, selectively policing speech or statements on social media platforms will have much broader implications in the long run. You can see the confirmation bias already in some of the replies here defending the guy who implemented it and his tweets. His twitter is full of hostility towards Republicans, it's not exactly a good look for a supposed neutral platform. I was reading earlier there's some statute that protects social media companies from being sued for censorship or libel and that Republicans are planning to repeal it. Like feck sake, how many false statements were made about Russia from Blue check marks on twitter, probably millions. You cannot enforce something like that equally across the board.
kowloonkev wrote: » Yes one is a PR exercise written to make an old guy with dementia look good and the other is a fight for free speech.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Deleted User wrote: » True but where would you rather be during the pandemic?
Field east wrote: » We cannot compare one country’s figures against another because of the way the figs are compiled. The U.K. , for example were not including deaths in nursing homes in their earlier figs. Until we know how each country compiles their figs we cannot compare them. If POTUS has any influence on keeping the figs in the US down below the true value, I think that he will do so - at least delay their announcement until after the election. There is little or no analysis on the no or % of deaths in nursing/care homes. For example, what is the normal death rate in such homes.? Also, when a health threat as Covis comes, what would be the expected level of death in such homes compared to that amongst the general public.?
