Current Affairs The 2020 United States Presidential Election

[Shevin Keedy]

Oooh no. No he does not.

Does he not? Haha do not worry I will bow to your knowledge on this one.

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Lol. Just get drunk and stay up til he gets back. Then see if he can tell and if not, that’s on him.

He will know. I have been together with the hubby since I was 18. That's 26 years of getting to know each other lol

 

[Yank]

Not even close

Pardon my ignorance, what is the longest running democracy on earth then? All that have had democracies longer had been interrupted by some from of authoritarian government.

I could be wrong, really interested perhaps it's one of those things schools always got wrong.

 

[tsubaki]

Pardon my ignorance, what is the longest running democracy on earth then? All that have had democracies longer had been interrupted by some from of authoritarian government.

I could be wrong, really interested perhaps it's one of those things schools always got wrong.

Iceland and us, I think.

 

[Tubey]

Does he not? Haha do not worry I will bow to your knowledge on this one.

Nah he's erm... wow where to start.

He's a capable politician but erm...

*sigh*

He's deeply unlikeable and extremely partisan, only way I can put it succinctly.

 

[Hogwild]

Always thought if Romney would’ve decided to run in 2016 he might’ve beat Trump. How different the world might be.

He should have, and I wish he had. I look back on his and Obama’s debates fondly as it was the last time we got to see two grown ups have a debate.

That said I don’t know if he could have won in 16. Logic was not ruling the day (and sadly things have only gotten worse).

 

[Shevin Keedy]

The French invented democracy.

 

[Tubey]

Iceland and us, I think.

It's actually the US.



Didn't know that.

 

[carolinablue232]

he'd never have - like McCain, he was a man for the wrong time politically

Probably right but at the time it seemed like he would’ve at least challenged and maybe changed the game. He had the name, experience, and wherewithal to actually stand up to Trump. In addition he can actually think and react rather than what we saw from Rubio and co who crumbled whenever they had to go off script. A lot wanted him to get in the race when it first looked like Trump was actually in with a chance.

 

[Sassy Colombian]

If I didn't dislike Mcconnell as much as I do I would said he deserves an applaud

 

[Yank]

So if Twitter was ran by a MAGA supporter and decided tomorrow to ban Bernie Sanders, that'd be fine right because it's a private company?

The impact on societal discourse doesn't matter, right?

Because that's the problem. What you describe in the movie theater are laws. Twitter didn't delete Trumps tweets because of laws; they did so because of a ToS that they arbitrarily enforce based on public interest. They aren't the same thing, and that is indeed my whole point - that Twitter is regulated like any other private company when the impact of the platform is akin to things usually covered by other points of law.

Twitter deleted Trump's tweets after someone was killed, what he said was further inciting it. They deleted his tweets after the building was stormed.

It wasn't preemptive. Either twitter doesn't matter as much as you think or they basically let this go guy as far as possible.

 

[TheBigIguana]

So if Twitter was ran by a MAGA supporter and decided tomorrow to ban Bernie Sanders, that'd be fine right because it's a private company?

The impact on societal discourse doesn't matter, right?

Because that's the problem. What you describe in the movie theater are laws. Twitter didn't delete Trumps tweets because of laws; they did so because of a ToS that they arbitrarily enforce based on public interest. They aren't the same thing, and that is indeed my whole point - that Twitter is regulated like any other private company when the impact of the platform is akin to things usually covered by other points of law.

Imagine being mad about twitter right now.

 

[carolinablue232]

Schumer throwing punches right now. I like it.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Schumer throwing punches right now. I like it.

The comedienne?

 

[Tubey]

Twitter deleted Trump's tweets after someone was killed, what he said was further inciting it. They deleted his tweets after the building was stormed.

It wasn't preemptive. Either twitter doesn't matter as much as you think or they basically let this go guy as far as possible.

Trump has incited violence before, he's spouted thousands of damaging untruths, he praised "good and bad people on both sides" when people had been hurt and killed before... and yet they had never deleted a tweet before or suspended him.

It was, by their own admission, an arbitrary decision, as they had gone with the public interest before that.

No law compelled them to do so in any direction. That for me is the issue, because of how that platform can (potentially) influence elections, topple governments etc. etc.