Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Meanlucario
It is meaningful. Let’s take an example. A user who hates black people and complains about how they are dumb and lazy. Now either this is someone who genuinely believes these things, or it is an edgy 13 year old who just got the freedom to post on the internet and thinks it’s funny to post naughty things.

The former, confronting them is effective, it’s showing the rest of the world doesn’t want to listen to their bigotry. People generally don’t like being confronted and challenged, that’s why they prefer to stay in their own ideological bubbles. Confronting them well can also help change their mind, it takes time, but it does work.

The latter is a child who will grow out of it and is generally a small percentage of the population posting on Twitter, not worth passing site word rules against that effect such a large population.

Now again this is one example. You also have edge cases. What happens when the person in question is a hardcore catholic who believes homosexuality is a sin and those who practice it are going to hell, those who push it are threatening others. They aren’t going around to harass people, but they comment on the same news articles you and I do which revolve around homosexuality, should he be banned? I don’t think so.

There’s a large difference between saying Trump told his followers to “drink bleach” when he actually straight up said in a national press conference to “inject disinfectant”, and Trump saying in a national press conference to “inject disinfectant” as a viable anti-Covid solution.

@Dustcan
To a brick wall, they are the same.

@Dustcan
Link me to a source where Trump directly told his followers they should inject disinfectant, still admitting he never said he should drink bleach

@Dustcan
So, exactly what I said it was, not an example of him telling the American people to drink bleach, so what you said was indeed misinformation. Thank god we don’t the twitter rules you want or that would be bannable.

@Background Pony #F298
Do you go on repeat like a parrot.

The Senate voted on codifying abortion protections into law today. Unsurprisingly it failed to meet the 60 vote threshold as all 50 Republicans and Manchin voted against it.

Disappointing, but I don’t think anyone really expected it to go any differently.

On a more positive voting note, the Senate did manage to confirm Alvaro Bedoya to be a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission, a move which gives gives Democrats a 3-2 majority and thus control of the agency.

So our president-elect Ferdinand Marcos has invited Joe Biden to attend his inauguration on June 30.

@Background Pony #F298
@Meanlucario

I got a much better idea: get rid of Twitter completely. Take care of all the problems in one fell swoop.

You think this sounds like an Onion Article, but it’s not.

TL;DR: So, Andrew N. Wilhoite, a GOP candidate for the GOP Primary Election for Clinton Township Board, who is awaiting trial for murder of his wife, Elizabeth “Nikki” Wilhoite, just won the GOP Primary from jail

I’ll let you guys that sink that one in for a second.

In a seismic shift of global power Finland’s president and PM say that their country will support NATO application. Sweden will almost certainly follow, as they do not want to be the only one of the Nordic nations out of NATO and they have defensive pacts with Finland.

Finland and the UK also signed a mutual defense agreement, likely the first of many as major NATO nations move to support Finland and Sweden during the transition.

@MethidMan
Nah, you’d then get the problem of all the nutcases dispersing to every other site. Gotta keep the asylum open.

@MethidMan
As the Background said, they will just flock to the next site, and those who actually use Twitter as intended will get screwed over.

@NitroFury
Yeah, the USA is kind of fucked.

Thought: What if the US gave Ukraine one of their nukes?

That is a bad idea on so many levels.

@Dustcan
Why is that?

I know it was more than two weeks ago, but you still spoke too soon.

Russia threatened Finland with retaliation if they proceed to join NATO. The Russian foreign minister stopped short of an outright military threat, instead opting for a vague “military-technical” retaliatory steps.

With what?

You’ve basically broken your arm against Ukrainian. You’re dealing with 20-25% inflation, crippling sanctions, a historically deep recession, a shattered national image, mass divestment, and the largest military losses of a modern power since Vietnam. Short of nukes you literally have nothing to threaten Finland with.

Be careful what you wish for.

@Ereiam
Oof.