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    Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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    1061 points danso | 11 comments | 29 May 20 07:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.261s | source | bottom
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    paganel ◴[29 May 20 07:40 UTC] No.23347256[source]▶
    I said it yesterday and got downvotes, Twitter’s CEO decided to pick sides in the political battle so they should expect what’s coming to them.
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    gentaro ◴[29 May 20 07:46 UTC] No.23347316[source]▶
    Sounds like maybe you should take the hint. It's not "taking sides" to point out that you're glorifying violence if you as the president are threatening to deploy military force against protestors.
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    1. 101404 ◴[29 May 20 07:54 UTC] No.23347398[source]▶
    Sending police to stop violence is "glorifying violence"? How exactly?
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    2. ryanobjc ◴[29 May 20 07:58 UTC] No.23347426[source]▶
    Sigh. Really.

    The tweets didn’t offer “sending in the police” it threatened to send the military in. Which isn’t the police.

    Word matter. The fact I’m m reading this comment here is sad.

    3. mrighele ◴[29 May 20 08:03 UTC] No.23347460[source]▶
    Sending police to shoot at protester is "glorifying violence". As a reference, that's the approach that Assad took in Syria back in 2011.
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    4. Traster ◴[29 May 20 08:18 UTC] No.23347564[source]▶
    No, see you've immediately moved the goals posts. He didn't say "I'm sending the police to stop violence".
    5. celticninja ◴[29 May 20 08:32 UTC] No.23347656[source]▶
    he said he was sending the army to start shooting, not sending the police to stop violence.
    6. pnako ◴[29 May 20 08:45 UTC] No.23347744[source]▶
    He mentioned shooting at looters, not protesters.

    Maybe you didn't see that part because Twitter has hidden the tweet?

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    7. totalZero ◴[29 May 20 09:13 UTC] No.23347903{3}[source]▶
    Shooting at looters instead of arresting them and taking them before a judge?

    That's reminiscent of the very brutal police practices that sparked this chaos in the first place.

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    8. pnako ◴[29 May 20 09:35 UTC] No.23348024{4}[source]▶
    In which country do you live?

    Shooting rubber bullets at rioters and looters is standard practice pretty much everywhere in democracies, and in non-democracies they tend to go straight to lethal ammo.

    9. mrighele ◴[29 May 20 09:55 UTC] No.23348131{3}[source]▶
    You're right, I mixed the two. In any case I think my point still stands; in most European countries both would be addressed with police batons and in case of violence rubber bullets and tear gas. From his tweet I don't think he was thinking about rubber bullets.
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    10. skocznymroczny ◴[29 May 20 13:16 UTC] No.23349596{4}[source]▶
    No it wouldn't. Most cases of looting in Europe are just forgotten about because it's done by minorities in countries like France or UK and it's a controversial topic to talk about so police and governments would rather just pretend it doesn't happen.
    11. username90 ◴[29 May 20 13:33 UTC] No.23349790{4}[source]▶
    Mobs in Europe are usually not armed with guns, mobs in USA are.