Marcus -
While I like the idea of his continued self-sabotage, his
pronouncements probably keep a part of the base stoked.
I do understand that and agree that this channel is a significantly
powerful/focused one for his fringe/base.
If his accounts were to go away, those folks might not have the
initiative to replace that outlet with another.
It does appear that his base(s) is (are) a mob in the sense that most of
them provide the energy of their (self) righteous indignation and not
much focus or initiative which then helps to leverage the effective
power of a very few (pseudo?) charismatic self-appointed leaders.
And then they could get back to torturing animals or whatever it is
they do all day.
Sadly this is one of my worries. To realize the number of people who
rose up to support theDonald once he got some momentum, it makes me
worry that we were (are) collectively more ill than I appreciated. One
of the things I find hopeful about Trumps Ascendency is that all of this
is out in the open and it can be addressed (to a minor degree) by those
closest to these people. LIke the Fargo family.
The ACLU new policy to not support armed groups seems like a good
step. There are other groups like the SPLC that can tackle the haters.
I hope that if his rhetoric continues this way, and he repeatedly
violates their terms of services, that they do shut him down
completely. He can go on Fox and Friends or something.
I admit to not having a clue what is in the Twitter TOS, having signed
up in a moment of curiosity/weakness nearly 8 years ago... I don't use
it and for the most part serves me little if at all in any other way.
It WOULD be interesting to see Twitter take Trump on head-on, I
suspect it might be a significant breaking of a dam made of his audacity
in the face of propriety.
Give him credit or not, he's been willing to take on lots of
groups/subcultures fairly head-on (and many more smarmily obliquely...
like the LGBT/Latino/Black/??? communities)
- Steve
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