Trump Accuses Twitter Of ‘Interfering’ In Election..............

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  1. dadoalex

    dadoalex Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Twitter is not the MSM.
    Everyone from every belief posts there.
    MSNBC posts there
    CNN posts there
    Fox posts there
    OANN posts there

    So other than being wrong what was your point?
     
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    dadoalex Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    All of those things are "facts."
    A "fact" is simply an assertion that something is true.
    Perhaps we'd be better to call this "Truth Checking"

    Geez, can you imagine how Trump and the Trumpisphere would explode if Twitter labeled it "Truth Check?"
     
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    dadoalex Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It is unfortunate that your mind has become corrupted over the difference between "fact" and "opinion."

    If I say "Trump is a liar."
    I am asserting a fact.
    A fact can be true or false.
    If I say "I BELIEVE Trump is a liar.
    I am expressing an opinion.

    They are not the same.
     
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    Jestsayin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Kind of like posting a fake picture of a cop and claiming he was a Trump supporter? Slander is slander.
     
  5. Ronstar

    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    sue me
     
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    Jestsayin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No need. Just curious to know if you were classy enough to acknowledge your error. Until that time anything you post is under question.
    As for Twitter, they may wish they had never gone down that route.
     
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    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Twitter did the right thing and hopefully soon the POS-in-Chief will lose his account.

    :)
     
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    They are the same thing if, in fact, Trump expressed an opinion rather than a fact.
     
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    We haven't had mail in voting. That means Trump thinks it will increase voter fraud. I think so too.
     
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    Goodbye.
     
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    dadoalex Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Your response is simply ignorant.

    That you cannot distinguish fact from opinion is a problem I cannot correct for you.
     
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    dadoalex Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Again, you fail to comprehend the difference between fact and opinion.

    If I were to say "all the people on Mars are purple." I am stating a fact. The truth of that statement can be disputed and checked.
    If I say "I think all of the people on Mars are purple." I am stating an opinion. The facts supporting that opinion may be disputed but the opinion itself cannot be checked.

    Trump did not say "I think" or "I predict," he said "causes."

    This is something you should work on.
     
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    Again, you fail to comprehend the difference between fact and opinion.
     
  14. fmw

    fmw Well-Known Member

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    Is there anything you can correct? Don't insult me again.
     
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    dadoalex Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    My stating the fact that your responses clearly show you cannot delineate fact from opinion is not an insult.

    It is an observation.

    I have explained the difference.
    More than once.
    Yet you continue to claim the two are interchangable.

    Again, that is a failure on your part I cannot correct.
     
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    Ignorant is an insult.
     
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    dadoalex Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    did not say you were ignorant. Said the response was ignorant.
     
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    And? That was an insult. I'm done playing your game. Bye bye.
     
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    We have had absentee voting since the Civil War.
     
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    Twitter had better be careful if they're going to start enforcing certain standards in tweets. this could easily lead to them losing their status as a public forum and being held legally liable for everything posted on that site.

    just like Facebook can be held liable now since they started banning accounts that post things they disagree with.
     
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    We aren't talking about absentee voting.
     
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    In my state, all I need to do to vote by mail is ask for a form. It's been that way a long time. All of a sudden, this year, it's a huge problem. It's been working fine for close to 200 years.
     
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    Not the same thing. You said you had to to ask for a form. That holds true for absentee ballots. The new plan is to mail ballots to everyone on the voter registration roles, even to people that are dead or no longer in the state. The concern is that those ballots could be misused. Serious problem? Nobody knows but there is certainly a potential for fraud.
     
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    As it was pointed out, by transforming Twitter into a publisher, Dorsey has created two problems for himself. First, he can be sued for libel. Second, by providing something of value worth hundreds of millions or billions to Trump's opposition, he has violated Federal Election Law.

    Perhaps you should research the clown doing the 'fact checking' and post your results as proof that 'fact checking' is an accurate term.
     

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