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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: 0s | source
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Ididntdothis ◴[27 May 20 13:54 UTC] No.23323232[source]▶
I feel like we are slowly reaching the state the movie “Idiocracy” describes. I feel very torn about this. On the one hand I don’t think we should leave it up to companies like Twitter to censor things. On the other hand I find it hard to believe that the president is constantly claiming things without any evidence backing up. It started with the claims of millions of illegal voters in 2016 and the commission they started disbanding quietly after finding nothing. And now publicly spreading rumors about killing somebody.

It’s insane how little respect the US has for the integrity of its political system. As long as it may hurt the “other” side everything is ok without regard to the damage they are constantly doing the health of the system.

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bilbo0s ◴[27 May 20 14:00 UTC] No.23323354[source]▶
What's sad is that the movie was meant as a joke. (I think?)

And here we are? How did this happen?

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1. pinopinopino ◴[27 May 20 14:11 UTC] No.23323529[source]▶
The rabbit hole goes deeper.

If the movie describes reality then it does it pretty well and then apparently reality can be described as a joke.

If the movie satires reality and we cannot discern the satire from reality then reality was already a joke to begin with, we just didn't know.

The question is not how did we get here or how did this happen? But how do we get out of here? :)