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BBC News - Finland's Sanna Marin says Europe would be in trouble without US
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Finland's Sanna Marin says Europe would be in trouble without US

"I must be brutally honest with you," Sanna Marin says. "We would be in trouble without the US."
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Quick, someone tell her that she's wrong and Biden has done nothing and that with trump the world was safer etc etc
 
deuse said:
This is where you slip up time Time after time.
The house is different from the senate.

You do know that and what each does? No....oh well
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I asked what Democratic legislation effected you during Trump's time as you claimed you'd been effected. You are unable to name any, surprise surprise. I know the difference but I also know that Trump could have vetoed any legislation he didn't like and all legislation has to pass the house and senate and the GOP controlled the senate.

So you're admitting you weren't effected by any Democratic legislation. Just so we have finally arrived there.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
I asked what Democratic legislation effected you during Trump's time as you claimed you'd been effected. You are unable to name any, surprise surprise. I know the difference but I also know that Trump could have vetoed any legislation he didn't like and all legislation has to pass the house and senate and the GOP controlled the senate.

So you're admitting you weren't effected by any Democratic legislation. Just so we have finally arrived there.
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AFFECTED!
 
Elon Musk handed the so-called 'Twitter Files' to Matt Taibbi, who patched them together into a longwinded thread which clearly showed:


* under Jack Dorsey's ownership, Twitter accepted requests from Republicans & Democrats to remove content

* Twitter reduced distribution of the Hunter Biden story for a mere 48 hours, on the basis that (a) the source was potentially unreliable & (b) it included images of Hunter's naked body without his permission

* during this period Twitter's own staff raised concerns about the decision and pushed back against it, arguing they could see no justification & at least one Democrat politician contacted Twitter to argue that there was no basis for restricting the story

* the decision was made without the knowledge of Jack Dorsey, who immediately reversed it as soon as he was made aware

* neither Joe Biden nor his campaign team were involved with this at any level

* Trump was POTUS at the time, so Joe Biden couldn't be accused of breaching the 1st amendment even if he had been involved

* there was no smoking gun


Republicans are tying themselves into knots as they try to rescue their original narrative, but it's too late. We now know that the whole thing was a bland nothing burger with a topping of weak sauce.
 
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The number of Republicans crying '1st amendment breach!' over the Twitter Files is absolutely hilarious, considering Republicans were in government at the time. Their ignorance and lack of self awareness never ceases to delight and astonish me.

:D
 
Sankari said:
Elon Musk handed the so-called 'Twitter Files' to Matt Taibbi, who patched them together into a longwinded thread which clearly showed:


* under Jack Dorsey's ownership, Twitter accepted requests from Republicans & Democrats to remove content

* Twitter reduced distribution of the Hunter Biden story for a mere 48 hours, on the basis that (a) the source was potentially unreliable & (b) it included images of Hunter's naked body without his permission

* during this period Twitter's own staff raised concerns about the decision and pushed back against it, arguing they could see no justification & at least one Democrat politician contacted Twitter to argue that there was no basis for restricting the story

* the decision was made without the knowledge of Jack Dorsey, who immediately reversed it as soon as he was made aware

* neither Joe Biden nor his campaign team were involved with this at any level

* Trump was POTUS at the time, so Joe Biden couldn't be accused of breaching the 1st amendment even if he had been involved

* there was no smoking gun


Republicans are tying themselves into knots as they try to rescue their original narrative, but it's too late. We now know that the whole thing was a bland nothing burger with a topping of weak sauce.
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Just checked the link, good synopsis, but just that first point, on the bipartisan content removal requests, you conveniently left off the ‘however’ caveat..

And the key part of the timeline was that NYP (the primary source) was banned and would only be unbanned if they deleted all related tweets, so could only be unbanned if they where gagged, so to say it was only 48 hours seems a bit odd in terms of the events since it took weeks for that to be conveniently sorted out.

And you say bidens team had nothing to do, but they where directly mentioned as contributing to request,
More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”
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, I’m not saying they directly did this for the laptop, that isn’t too clear right now, it seems to be internal, but we’ve already had Zuckerberg weigh in previously on government intervention that was their trigger..

I have said before I’m charitable enough to say they had good intentions based on the fake Russian collusion claims back in 2016, but the problem with subjective decisions they occasionally go wrong.

But the way you portray this is intellectually dishonest and your posts does not come across as being in good fait.
 
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Demon said:
Just checked the link, good synopsis, but just that first point, on the bipartisan content removal requests, you conveniently left off the ‘however’ caveat..

And the key part of the timeline was that NYP (the primary source) was banned and would only be unbanned if they deleted all related tweets, so could only be unbanned if they where gagged, so to say it was only 48 hours seems a bit odd in terms of the events since it took weeks for that to be conveniently sorted out.

And you say bidens team had nothing to do, but they where directly mentioned as contributing to request,
, I’m not saying they directly did this for the laptop, that isn’t too clear right now, it seems to be internal, but we’ve already had Zuckerberg weigh in previously on government intervention that was their trigger..

I have said before I’m charitable enough to say they had good intentions based on the fake Russian collusion claims back in 2016, but the problem with subjective decisions they occasionally go wrong.

But the way you portray this is intellectually dishonest and your posts does not come across as being in good fait.
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I've only had a quick glance at it, but my first thought was I must be reading a different article based on his post.
 
Demon said:
Just checked the link, good synopsis, but just that first point, on the bipartisan content removal requests, you conveniently left off the ‘however’ caveat..
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The 'however' is a personal opinion, not a verified fact. Yes, Twitter staff lean left. But Taibbi offers no evidence that this restricted the ability of Republicans to get problematic posts 'handled' in the way they wanted.

Demon said:
And the key part of the timeline was that NYP (the primary source) was banned and would only be unbanned if they deleted all related tweets, so could only be unbanned if they where gagged, so to say it was only 48 hours seems a bit odd in terms of the events since it took weeks for that to be conveniently sorted out.
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Yes, the NYP's account was locked for 16 days. But the policy of restricting the story was only in place for 48 hours.

At the time Twitter said that it was blocking the Post story under a policy against stolen and hacked materials. Conservatives said the company was censoring the news. Within two days CEO Jack Dorsey reversed the decision and apologized.
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(Source).

I'm not even batting for Twitter here. I strongly believe the story should not have been suppressed in any way at all. I just want to keep the record straight.

Demon said:
And you say bidens team had nothing to do, but they where directly mentioned as contributing to request
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No, they were not. They simply asked Twitter to remove naked photos of Hunter. That's all. They did not ask for the story to be banned, removed, or restricted in any way.

Demon said:
But the way you portray this is intellectually dishonest and your posts does not come across as being in good fait.
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Hilarious nonsense, without a shred of self reflection. Where's the intellectual dishonesty? Are you even sure you know what that means?

No comment from you on the fact that the Trump administration was asking Twitter to remove material? Because that sounds like a 1st amendment breach to me.

i-bert said:
I've only had a quick glance at it, but my first thought was I must be reading a different article based on his post.
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Should have gone to SpecSavers.
 
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Sankari said:
The 'however' is a personal opinion, not a verified fact. Yes, Twitter staff lean left. But Taibbi offers no evidence that this restricted the ability of Republicans to get problematic posts 'handled' in the way they wanted.
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Indeed.

There was also never anything stopping Republicans from using another platform to spread what they wanted to spread either. If they were concerned with Twitter's supposed employee based bias, they didn't have to use them to post pictures of a naked Hunter Biden...
 
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