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Kaveren | 5 years ago

you spend too much time online if you think you can start any war over twitter

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_5659|5 years ago

Respectfully, I don't think I'm spending too much time online to be cognizant of the fact that we have an administration that is very much capable of doing so.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/10/trump-almost...

luckylion|5 years ago

Wait, on the one hand there's the perception of "Trump just tweets whatever comes to his mind", and on the other hand he/whoever actually runs it is drafting tweets, they're purposefully leaking these drafts to NK to gather what they'd feel like if that was sent? That doesn't seem to fit together.

rvz|5 years ago

He's not exactly the only one to 'worry' about on Twitter. Here you have the Supreme leader of Iran who 'actually' posted a tweet as a call to violence to 'destroy' another country via a tweet. [0]

If Trump tweeted just that or something similar, it would have been removed instantly. But this one and others from the supreme leader of Iran are still publicly available for all to see.

But nothing violent here or anything to worry about I guess?

[0] https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1263749566744100864

Kaveren|5 years ago

sorry you just don't understand how the world works. nobody is ever starting a war over twitter, not least because people understand that accounts can be hacked. and the president's twitter account tweeting about a war would mean the president gets a call within 2 minutes. it would never happen.

north korea would absolutely never initiate a war over a tweet, they're fully rational.

also nice link to an article about a tweet that the president actually wanted to send, as opposed to a hacker tweeting, which would be denied by the white house within 15 minutes.