[uspol] we don't need to praise Twitter itself for these bans when it started from an internal push by its employees banding together to demand the president's account be banned, and in response to Twitter management's constant allowance of Trump's bullshit

capitalists are spineless, workers get shit done

It was hard to stomach being happy Trump finally got banned when the word "finally" is in there - it should've been done a long time ago.

But realizing it was the work of workers banding together because they were ALSO fed up??

I can get behind them.

Good job guys.

it could have happened in like 2010 for hate speech and I guarantee he would never have been president

YEAH

this is why you're supposed to deplatform fascists

my husband was just cackling all evening about his pathetic attempts to set up sockpuppet after sockpuppet

all of which were also promptly banned because that's how a Twitter ban works, dude

he's behaving like a daft obnoxious preteen, except at least a random preteen might have some chance of his new sockpuppet accounts being overlooked, whereas as soon as the banned POTUS declares on Twitter that he's the banned POTUS, he's gonna get banned again???

A: how does he expect that not to keep happening, and B: you literally have a press secretary and a direct line to the news media, why are you fucking around trying to fight Twitter?

because the press is mean to him

he wants an unfiltered direct line to his fans where he doesn't have to respond to actual questions

And there's every possibility the press won't show up if he calls a press conference

I've seen someone also point out that it's harder to go "oh I didn't MEAN it that way I was just JOKING" when you said it through official presidential channels

easier to backpedal or shrug it off as weightless nonsense when it's Just A Tweet

he does that anyway though

he backpedals things he says in news conferences all the time

where's the lie though

uggghhhh