Is this another little game of questions?

You have my blessing.

The owners of a service should be able to shape it as they see fit. You've used this in argument, passionately, many many times. You are not consistent.

Of course they should. It’s their property. They can do what they want. That doesn’t mean it’s right or wrong. Are you able to make that distinction?

Again, I never said Twitter’s new feature is illegal or not protected by the first amendment, so it’s stupid to keep trying to nail down that irrelevant point, as if someone was disputing it or arguing the opposite. Is this how lawyers argue?

Again, it’s wrong for some pencil-neck in Silicon Valley to interfere with the president’s speech, apply a little label, and link to some CNN article. Pencil-neck is not the arbiter of truth, can dispute Trump like everyone else in replies, comments and articles, and need not abuse his power to apply links, fact-checks or any other nonsense on people’s tweets.

It’s not a comment. It’s a new feature of the system, one designed to combat “misinformation”, which has been demanded by Western governments for the past few years. It’s just weird to me that someone would call it a comment or speech.

It’s a twitter comment. The doublespeak is profound.

If it’s a comment then who made it?

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.

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 essentially violate their human right.

Nothing to do with law, pal.

Sure it is.

Saying a comment isn’t proven is one thing, but an entity stamping their mark of approval on a comment is another.

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 hear your argument as to why he shouldn’t.

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 everyone, you don’t believe in free speech.

If you left my original text intact and merely added editorialized trimmings of your own, then I wouldn't much mind actually...

Even if you decorated it above and below with shit-emojis, I would still expect my statements to stand or fall on their own merits...

So answer me this: What if you made a post that was factually incorrect (what was the tweet in question even about? I still haven't cared enough to check...), and let's assume that it is something relevant to "politics". Would you feel so-violated if someone merely added a disclaimer stating that it is factually inaccurate?

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 it. I fear for and pity those who need their information to be curated.

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 regulation people immediately turn libertarian. Personally I’m not for regulation, but if a social media company wants to act like a publisher, it should be treated as one.

I know what censorship is.

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 agenda. He get’s to remain unaccountable to both the person whose tweets he alters and the public he means to persuade. This is the kind of censorship that would make the CCP proud, but it has been something demanded by Western officials for quite some time.

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 conscience would have a hard time living with themselves afterwards.

Another recent case of mail-in voter fraud, posted by the DOJ just today.

Thomas Cooper, a mail carrier in Pendleton County, was charged today in a criminal complaint with attempted election fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Cooper, age 47, of Dry Fork, West Virginia, is charged with “Attempt to Defraud the Residents of West Virginia of a Fair Election.” According to the affidavit filed with the complaint, Cooper held a U.S. Postal Service contract to deliver mail in Pendleton County. In April 2020, the Clerk of Pendleton County received “2020 Primary Election COVID-19 Mail-In Absentee Request" forms from eight voters on which the voter's party-ballot request appeared to have been altered.

The clerk reported the finding to the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office, which began an investigation. The investigation found five ballot requests that had been altered from “Democrat” to “Republican.” On three other requests, the party wasn’t changed, but the request had been altered.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndwv/pr/pendleton-county-mail-carrier-charged-attempted-election-fraud

In the US it depends on the state. Though some states do not require an excuse, some do.

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. But democrats pushed to include funding to expand vote-by-mail in the federal coronavirus relief bill, for whatever reason.

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 about mail-in voting was true. Here’s a recent example:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/close-results-in-paterson-vote-plagued-by-fraud-claims-over-3k-ballots-seemingly-set-aside/2425813/

But no, Twitter users need some woke executive to tell them what is true or false.

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 information, it’s time to just walk away.

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 cuffed. So why kneel on his neck? It looks like murder to me.

Jesus Christ. Everyone could see he was choking the man to death. The cop knew what he was doing.

So the black death mkII has killed 1 in 1300 people in the UK...over half of which were 80 years+ old and well over 90% had serious underlying illness. MkI seems to have been a bit worse than mkII...but those on the political left still seem to be shitting themselves and want us to remain in perpetual lockdown . The left loves locking society down it seems.

Isn’t Johnson a conservative?

I think in political terms it’s less left and right as it is authoritarian vs libertarian.

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 everyone, by virtue of their existence, is endowed with enough worth and dignity and value to warrant a certain amount of respect and honor.

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 smile?

It's particularly sad that Trump slings this kind of mud on a near daily basis

They sling it at him. They deserve it.

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.



Of course Tyahnybok didn’t get a position. In Pyatt and Nuland’s leaked phone call, Nuland said he should be kept on the outside. Who did they prefer? Yatsenyuk. The fascists were fine with impunity.

I think you’re wrong to downplay American meddling in Ukraine and the failure of the previous administration’s push for regime change there. American officials stood on stages Shaking hands with fascists while addressing Maidan protesters, cheering for their success against the democratically-elected president, and pushing to install their favorite politicians. Imagine if someone did that in your country.

"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.thenation.com/article/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-allegations/

Biden supporters in a nutshell.

A senate probe will suffice. I suppose Ukraine should want to know why the previous American administration was meddling in their politics, as well.

Oh look, it’s John McCain with Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the Svoboda party.



Why is he dining with them?



Wait a minute, is that Victoria Nuland with the same man?



But they and their partners in the Right Sector had nothing to do with the Maidan protest and violence, nor did they find themselves in government positions, or as governors in the new government immediately after toppling the democratically-elected president, right kamerad ssu?

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-president and point man in Ukraine. The US had just finished helping far right fascists topple the government. Suddenly Biden’s crackhead son is getting lucrative positions at a corrupt Ukrainian energy company. The same has allegedly happened in China.

None of this is even similar to what Trump was investigated and impeached for.

Either you’re a liar or you don’t know what injury means. Was it your fee-fees that we’re injured and hurt?

What a remarkably stupid and ignorant remark. I forget what a bottom dweller you are, and how low you so easily go. But let's see. Hmm. You are aware that early in his administration he without notice blocked entry of all sorts of people into the US who were otherwise according to US completely entitled to enter?

These are the “injuries” you’re talking about? In other words, not injuries. Sorry, but these policies were a first step towards re-establishing control over America’s borders and national security.

Another epidemiological model based on the Ferguson model further proves itself to be little more than baseless misinformation, and worse, misinformation used to “inform public policy”.

Our model for Sweden shows that, under conservative epidemiological parameter estimates, the current Swedish public-health strategy will result in a peak intensive-care load in May that exceeds pre-pandemic capacity by over 40-fold, with a median mortality of 96,000 (95% CI 52,000 to 183,000). The most stringent public-health measures examined are predicted to reduce mortality by approximately three-fold. Intensive-care load at the peak could be reduced by over two-fold with a shorter period at peak pandemic capacity.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062133v1.full.pdf

But under the current Swedish strategy there have been around 4000 deaths, far less than the 52,000 to 183,000 deaths they predicted by this time. It’s frightening that the UK and US used such dangerous nonsense to inform their policies.

I’m not aware of any injuries inflicted by the man. Jeff Sessions and other establishment rhinos got exactly what they deserved.

And all the people he's injured in oh so many ways? They're fantasies in my skull?

Which people?

What Trump is doing to all of us, would you like it or be so admiring of it if, for example, I did it to you?

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’re not hitting back at anything save for the fantasies swimming about in your skull, I feel nothing but contempt and pity.