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2019-nCoV ◴[] No.23347204[source]
How is that glorifying violence?
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s5300 ◴[] No.23347230[source]
Well, looting had already started hours before he'd posted this.

That being said - the President of the United States, just stated on one of the largest social media platforms used in the U.S., that citizens of the U.S. are now to be shot. From his words, immediately. It could even be viewed as "they should've already been shot at"

If you don't understand how this is glorifying violence, I don't think you can be made to.

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1. vsssk ◴[] No.23347549[source]
I'm reading the tweet more like 'I will authorize the use of deadly force by the military against the looters'. Although I could see several interpretations

But I think the real thing people aren't able to come to grips with is how Trump uses the media in such a style that gives him all plausible deniability, builds outrage AND builds support. All at once.