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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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1061 points danso | 3 comments | 29 May 20 07:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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2019-nCoV ◴[29 May 20 07:32 UTC] No.23347204[source]▶
How is that glorifying violence?
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rootlocus ◴[29 May 20 07:33 UTC] No.23347212[source]▶
> when the looting starts, the shooting starts.

What part of this isn't?

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2019-nCoV[dead post] ◴[29 May 20 07:36 UTC] No.23347228[source]▶
It doesn't unequivocally say that at all. It can reasonably be interpreted as: "once people are willing to break the law and start looting, it's not long before there are also people shooting"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

1. evan_ ◴[29 May 20 07:44 UTC] No.23347300[source]▶
> It doesn't unequivocally say that at all. It can reasonably be interpreted as: "once people are willing to break the law and start looting, it's not long before there are also people shooting"

This is not a reasonable interpretation of the president's words. The previous tweet said that the military is standing by. There can be no mistake: Trump is saying that he will order the US military to kill Americans.

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3. rootlocus ◴[29 May 20 08:27 UTC] No.23347619[source]▶
> an ambiguous sentence

That's not an ambiguous sentence.

The thing about Trump supporters that baffles me is, they have the common sense to understand when some his claims are false or hurtful, because they make up excuses for them: they're ambiguous, he was just checking if we were paying attention, etc. even when he refuses to back down and absolutely denies the excuses. But they still enjoy having their prejudices, fears and hates validated whenever Trump's tweets align with their view.