Trump campaign said video using Nazi-era language was posted by staffer who didn’t see wording, yet it stayed up for 15 hours

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    6 months ago

    Damn if you do, damn if you don’t?

    Should the video had not been removed? I don’t know what the issue is? They removed a video that comes off as offensive, right? Isn’t that good moderating?

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      6 months ago

      Of course it should be removed. I don’t think anyone sane is criticizing him for removing it. The criticism is still that it was ever posted in the first place. The excuse here is pretty weak. You need to be posting the kind of videos that would include such things in order to accidentally miss them.

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        6 months ago

        It wasn’t… this thread has speculations of what really happened. All we know is that a user of Truth Social posted a video, it was reviewed - apparently not thoroughly watched, then it was allowed to be posted by an employee of Truth Social. Then after discovering the icky word, the posted video was removed.

        What if said user was actually anti-Trump and tried to damage the image of Trump and his voters? Not hard to believe. Or it could have been a straight up neo-nazi who thinks Trump is the messiah… Also not hard to believe.

        In the end it seems people got sand in between their legs and became hysterical.

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          also kinda just seems like trump let his jaw flap a little too freely again cuz he’s a fucking idiot who’s failed upward because the standards of the rich seem based on appearance and illusion rather than competence. Again. The man is a smarmy grifter who failed upward until he popped the top and now he’s either going to jail or the system is going to reveal that its corruption is complete, although since Clarence Thomas still holds his position despite his behaviour and his backsliding, retrograde judgments clearly indicates that time has past. The ouroboros was retarded and crawled up its own asshole and died - that’s America right now.

          Cuz like, have you listened to any of his recent speeches? It’s the sound of a flatulent mind. They could be used as intelligence tests to determine how gullible a person is. Every single person who comes out of one of those going “yes yes he made some good points” needs to be collected at the exit and sent to a monastery in the Himalayas so as to receive an actual education since they obviously skipped out on the first pass. Nawm sayin?

          Anyway the outrage isn’t anything about a social media network, it’s just that trump used a new dog whistle for the first time in that video. who knows or even cares if it was altered, he has damned himself with his own mouth so many times and the fact that it’s entirely plausible that he said this, and consistent with other shit that has fallen out of his face, is the problem.

          If you find the reaction hysterical, perhaps you aren’t well-informed about the reasons for the reaction. Hysteria is not the correct response. Shutting down your government and replacing it is. All of you, at once, now. Fail at that and america’s over, though it’s pretty clear it was killed on 9/11 anyway. Y’all just feeding on the husk.