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Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

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707 points patd | 1 comments | 27 May 20 12:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jjuel ◴[27 May 20 13:04 UTC] No.23322521[source]▶
It is crazy to see how well he knows his base and how to get them to rally close to an election. Making them think everything is a liberal bias against them, and if they don't vote for his big government agenda they will receive a big government agenda. This is just one more way for him to get his base to believe everything he says versus people who actually prove what he says is a lie. He wants state run media and social media just like China. As much as he talks about hating China he would love to be China.
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sp332 ◴[27 May 20 13:10 UTC] No.23322583[source]▶
And this is specifically on a tweet calling the validity of the election into question. It's blatantly wrong, but he needs his base to believe him when he says the election is rigged.
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frockington1 ◴[27 May 20 13:32 UTC] No.23322887[source]▶
Hasn't the other side been #NotMyPresient and throwing a tantrum about the validity of the last election? Trump is not a trailblazer in this regard
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1. alistairSH ◴[27 May 20 13:59 UTC] No.23323335[source]▶
There's a massive difference between...

1. Questioning whether the Electoral College (and its tendency to devalue votes in some states) has a place in the modern US.

2. Questioning whether the election itself is completely rigged (via fraudulent votes).

#1 is the question many liberals have been asking. #2 is thee claim that the entire GOP has been making for years, despite their own investigations never turning up more than a few individuals voting fraudulently (but never systematic fraud perpetrated by the political left, as they claim).