Heads up you guys. So far I have neither seen with my own eyes, not received reports about ANYONE either celebrating an assassination attempt on a former President, or sympathizing with the shooter.
THANK YOU.
And I mean that - because I know many folks here can't abide Trump (including myself), but you're keeping your dignity and COSO's reputation handy.
@th3j35t3r
Seriously? There were piles of posts doing exactly that.
But not a single report. I can't see everything as it flies by in realtime.
@th3j35t3r
Nor should you be expected to, and I didn't mean to imply that. But just so you know, there were a lot of such posts about 3-4 hours back. Things like, 'dang, he missed' and such. I made a fairly pissy post reacting to all of it, frankly disgusted that sort of behavior was taking place here. I don't want to speak for her, but I'm pretty sure txgal leaving was also in reaction to this.
@th3j35t3r
Just so we're all clear: Are such posts in violation of ToS?
Celebrating political violence... aye! But laughing at a felon who got a grazed ear... the same felon we were laughing at yesterday, before he got a grazed ear, not so much.
@th3j35t3r @kel @voltronic
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@th3j35t3r Ear,ear.🧐 @kel @voltronic
@th3j35t3r
Yeah, 'celebrating political violence' accurately describes a bunch of what I saw. I'll report in the future.
I saw several in responses to my own thread on the subject. I deliberately chose to ignore them.
@th3j35t3r @kel @voltronic Even I feel pretty bad for that poor bystander.
That's the problem: there's often - perhaps even usually - collateral damage, and once it's done you can't really put the genie back in the bottle.
From an objective perspective, though, it would be interesting to study (if it were possible to study such a thing without any price being paid) what kind of shifts would happen in politics if power was turned into an often-deadly hot potato - who would seek power then?
@voltronic @th3j35t3r
Really good question.
@voltronic @th3j35t3r I vote yes. Clear violations of the no dickhead clause. $0.02