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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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1061 points danso | 1 comments | 29 May 20 07:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | 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

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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