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archonspeaks Since: Jun, 2013
#286826: Aug 7th 2019 at 3:15:17 PM

Secession is a fairly common agenda for a lot of states. Texas is the big one, but there have been calls for California’s secession for ages. Give it a few years, it’ll be back.

They should have sent a poet.
tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#286827: Aug 7th 2019 at 3:16:37 PM

A little over a year if Trump wins.

Trump delenda est
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#286828: Aug 7th 2019 at 3:18:36 PM

It was the brainchild of some Silicon Valley asshole. It didn't end, because it never got off the ground.

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#286829: Aug 7th 2019 at 3:25:06 PM

Pretty sure it was also backed by Russian trolls, trying to make it look like a more popular idea than it actually was.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#286830: Aug 7th 2019 at 4:17:53 PM

Which probably weakens any legitimate sentiments towards secession by association.


White House drafting executive order to tackle Silicon Valley’s alleged anti-conservative bias – The federal government has only limited options to police alleged ideological bias in the tech industry.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/white-house-tech-censorship-1639051

NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#286831: Aug 7th 2019 at 4:20:17 PM

So what, are they going to make an executive order demanding that Silicon Valley hire conservatives over all else? Make conservative ideas unable to be challenged?

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#286832: Aug 7th 2019 at 4:20:22 PM

I feel like a number of Trump's executive orders just never pan out and this will probably end up one of them.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#286833: Aug 7th 2019 at 4:25:19 PM

Probable hot air, if its anything concrete the courts will likely maul it (due to being against the 1st and probably other Amendments, or because it would be Congress's job).

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#286834: Aug 7th 2019 at 4:31:43 PM

Secession is a fairly common agenda for a lot of states. Texas is the big one, but there have been calls for California’s secession for ages. Give it a few years, it’ll be back.

Amongst vocal minorities, yes.

At this point, secession has no chance of ever being a serious movement in the foreseeable future.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#286835: Aug 7th 2019 at 5:45:43 PM

I do so love when someone throws shade at Trump in the classiest way possible in response to being called out by said president because he didn't like the coverage. Stay strong Shep Smith.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#286836: Aug 7th 2019 at 5:53:20 PM

At least someone on Faux News has (gasp!) principles.

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#286837: Aug 7th 2019 at 6:12:06 PM

"Team Mitch", Mitch McConnel's Twitter handle for his 2020 Campaign, has been suspended from Twitter after posting a profanity-laced video involving people protesting outside of his home in Kentucky.

I guess Twitter had enough of McConnel's Bull these past couple of days, and this was the straw that broke the camels back. This certainly won't help him next year.

Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#286838: Aug 7th 2019 at 6:27:42 PM

If we manage to unseat Mc Connel it'd be so amazing.

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Soban Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#286839: Aug 7th 2019 at 6:32:13 PM

They got banned for that? The same platform that lets #Massacre Mitch trend banned them for that? Like I've been trying to stay away from Bias in news and platforms, but you have got to be kidding me.

Edited by Soban on Aug 7th 2019 at 9:32:29 AM

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#286840: Aug 7th 2019 at 6:37:30 PM

Mitch getting banned is long overdue.

And Massacre Mitch refers to the fact that his legislation is responsible for massacres.

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wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
She/her
#286841: Aug 7th 2019 at 6:39:21 PM

... Massacre Mitch was blatantly, obviously referring to Mitch ALLOWING massacres. Like Moscow Mitch referring to Mitch allowing Moscow/Russia to interfere with our elections. Don’t carry water for white supremacist trolls.

It takes a really dishonest person to see something referring to Mc Connell as “Massacre Mitch” (as in, a nickname, just like people were calling him “Moscow Mitch” last week — “massacre” being used as a noun) and conclude that it’s actually “massacre” as a verb and is a threat.

They're *really* trying to make this happen.

He 100% knows that people saying "Massacre Mitch" were using the word "massacre" as a noun, as part of a nickname and not as a verb and a call to action, but if Mikey didn't have straw men to fight, he wouldn't have anything at all.

But here's how that always goes:

1. Right-wingers purposely misread a tweet to stir up fake outrage

2. When the person who sent the tweet clarifies exactly what they meant, some dope posts the "sick backpedal!" GIF, another one will post a hole being dug, etc.

They're children

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#286842: Aug 7th 2019 at 6:40:19 PM

The idea that Twitter of all platforms is biased against Republicans is pretty ridiculous. Heck, they've already more or less admitted that one reason they don't crack down harder on hate speech is because it'd result in a lot of Republicans being banned.

Edited by M84 on Aug 7th 2019 at 9:42:08 PM

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#286843: Aug 7th 2019 at 6:40:59 PM

[up]x4 I think it's less this video specifically and more everything that "Team Mitch" has done this week that this is the final straw for them; yes, I do agree that this video shouldn't have gotten them banned, but considering the Opponent Graves and AOC Groping Pictures they posted this week (either of which should have gotten him banned instead of this), it's clear that McConnel's Campaign was going overboard, and something sooner or later was going to get them banned. It just turned out it was this relatively minor video.

[up]x2 Plus this; Massacre Mitch does not mean "Kill Mitch", it's a nickname about how Mitch is allowing people to die both through direct action and inaction.

Edited by DingoWalley1 on Aug 7th 2019 at 9:41:25 AM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#286844: Aug 7th 2019 at 6:42:30 PM

The idea that "Massacre Mitch" is a threat against Mitch is absurd. Especially when you consider that massacre refers to killing a large number of people, not just one person.

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RJ-19-CLOVIS-93 from New Zealand (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#286845: Aug 7th 2019 at 6:42:39 PM

Trump is Warren G Harding and Wendell Willkie without the good stuff

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#286846: Aug 7th 2019 at 6:47:40 PM

I never even thought for a second that the hashtag implied a death threat because it was so obvious that it was in the context of the shooting sprees in the country of the last few years, plus all the other horrible things he enables or openly supports.

The most you can argue is that they could have gone with a more unambiguous hashtag but even that strikes me as a disingenuous argument.

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#286847: Aug 7th 2019 at 7:16:08 PM

It takes some serious flexibility, reach and twisting to come to the conclusion that "Massacre Mitch" is a threat against him, especially since, if I'm not mistaken, it sprouted out soon after Moscow Mitch also started trending.

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#286848: Aug 7th 2019 at 7:23:49 PM

Frankly, Murderin' Mitch would have communicated the point a bit better. I kind of-sort of was misled as well, although I found the misconception amusing.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#286849: Aug 7th 2019 at 7:30:17 PM

[up]That might have led to even more confusion, since it is indeed possible to murder only one person.

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Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#286850: Aug 7th 2019 at 7:45:31 PM

[up]#MurderlovingMitch?

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