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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: 0.203s | source
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shiado ◴[29 May 20 07:38 UTC] No.23347239[source]▶
The service that hosts the accounts of all branches of the US military, all major weapons contractors, all three letter agencies, and many foreign militaries, governments, and world leaders guilty of all manner of war crimes, and this is where they draw the line for violence. Really interesting.
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slg ◴[29 May 20 07:47 UTC] No.23347332[source]▶
This is using past violence as a threat of imminent violence while the other accounts you mentioned will generally reference violence indirectly or in the past tense. That is an important distinction.
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TechBro8615 ◴[29 May 20 09:04 UTC] No.23347853[source]▶
He is the commander in chief. He has the capability to threaten violence.

This tweet, while in bad taste IMO, was a threat to those who are planning to continue looting and burning buildings in Minneapolis.

I’m not sure if you’ve seen the videos, but there are full scale riots. Rioters completely looted a Target and burned it nearly to the ground.

Is “shooting” the answer to that? Probably not. And hopefully the National Guard is not going to do that.

But at the end of the day, this is the commander in chief making a public statement, and Twitter is editorializing it. Make of that what you will.

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ashtonkem ◴[29 May 20 14:55 UTC] No.23350625[source]▶
Are you honest to god defending the president saying that American citizens should be shot?
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stronglikedan ◴[29 May 20 15:13 UTC] No.23350870[source]▶
Are you honest to god deducing that the president said American citizens should be shot?
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ashtonkem ◴[29 May 20 15:15 UTC] No.23350899[source]▶
How else would you interpret “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”?
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stronglikedan ◴[29 May 20 16:42 UTC] No.23352221[source]▶
It's a (perhaps too) succinct plea to not loot, and a warning that people will defend themselves and their property accordingly.
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1. ashtonkem ◴[29 May 20 16:55 UTC] No.23352409[source]▶
That’s an implausibly charitable interpretation, especially given that Trump has repeatedly expressed positive sentiments towards police violence, and advocated for the death penalty for citizens accused of crimes. He paid $85k to take out a full page ad calling for the Central Park five to be executed.

This is also the same guy who promised to pay the legal fees of anyone who attacked protesters at his rally, and suggested that we should shoot migrants crossing the border. It strains credulity to believe that this time Trump was just asking people to not loot.