“We just joined Truth Social, mostly because we thought it would be very funny,” it explained. “Follow us there for truths and retruths or whatever they call them.”
Watch how quickly the platform known for its “fReEdUm oF sPeEcH” bans any and all posts by Biden’s campaign.
This goes all the way back to the_donald. To them, censorship does not exist if you scream “free speach” as loud as possible.
This is a hilariously big-dick move. Biden gets to put his agenda right in conservatives faces and all the yelling they will do in the comments are just yelling into the echo chamber but there’s a non-zero chance that at least one person changes their mind from it which is a total win for almost no effort.
Bonus: there will be credible threats to Biden, which means secret service get to enjoy enrichment activities.
Good old Web 2.0, where you post death threats to the president next to your real name and a picture of your real face so they can be sure they’ve got the right guy.
The hilarious part is truth social requires a phone number.
No, I mean, I went to the mall, on January 7th, to hang my pants.
I like the idea of Secret Service enrichment activities being exactly like dog enrichment. They just release a bunch of Government mooks into a room with some of those doggie treats puzzles, but I stead of beggin strips, it’s full of domestic terrorists addresses.
The credible threats were coming from inside the house…
Sorta /s
Big dick move against the guy with small hands!
Well that’ll just make it look even bigger.
Dark Brandon’s about to drop some truths.
Hope he post videos doing pushups shirtless.
Remember when Donnie shared his physician’s report that said he was a man whose “physical strength and stamina are extraordinary”?
Extraordinarily bad probably. Still extraordinary.
If you knew nothing about Donald Trump, blatantly lying about your physical fitness to this extent should be damning. If he’s willing to just straight up lie about his health or about his golf game, what wouldn’t he lie about?
Exactly. Leaving aside the moral question… Why lie about something so trivial? So he’s dishonest and foolish?
That’s not even the most ridiculous claim about his health that his supporters obediently swallowed. Ronny “Candyman” Jackson said that if he watched his diet, he could live to be 200.
He’s Congressman Ronny Jackson of Texas now. So now we have an idea why he did it.
To be honest, physical virility isn’t that important to me.
The only reason that aspect matters to me re:trump is that he claims to be healthy and of certain dimensions, but clearly isn’t.
No matter what your physical self is, as long as you don’t pretend to be fuckin superman, you can have my vote if I can get on board with your policies.
It isn’t important to me, but it’s probably important to some of them.
I had a conversation with a guy that seemed sort of amused by Trump’s BS so we started talking about it and he acted like he was above it all. Then he mentioned how at least Trump was tough and when I pushed back he brought up the time Biden ‘fell off his bike’. To him that was a legitimate argument for who we should have as a leader.
The bad part is Trump probably couldn’t even ride a bike. Being active and having an accident while doing so is still better than nothing.
Falling off a bike is HARD. You have a few vectors of velocity working against you, and you’re higher up of the ground than you’re used to. I used to be a competitive snowboarder and some of the falls i’ve taken on my road bike hurt so much more than some of my biggest snow and ice crashes.
I thought you were saying it’s hard to fall of a bike at first, like you’d be a dumbass to even do that. Now I see you’re saying it HURTS! I can get onboard with that as I still have a road rash scar on my hip from falling off at high speed on my daily commute 10 years ago.
To be fair, I was being a dumbass: going way too fast in the rain and not paying enough attention, so when I swerved out of the way of an oncoming bike, I hit the bike path kerb and went rolling down the sidewalk. You can’t really last minute swerve on 2 wheels.
Double dumbass because I wasn’t wearing a helmet and could have been so much worse, but at the time I was most upset about tearing the shoulder off my favourite jacket…
Good point, I hadn’t thought of it that way
I love that their first posts are just highlight reels of Trump saying dumb shit and other Republicans absolutely trashing him.
Literally endorsing the opposition’s propaganda platform is bold as it gets now I guess
They’ll be banned within the next week.
Which is exactly what they want. If they can get trump to ban them they’ll easily show that they are a bunch of snowflakes who are full of shit when they talk about free speech.
Conservatives don’t mind being blatantly hypocritical, though. They’d support it with some rationalization. Just look at their subs on reddit, for example… constant whining about being ‘censored’ when they’re downvoted on other subs, but their subs would be ‘flaired users only’ and when people dared to disagree with whatever BS in other posts, very swiftly permanently banned.
They are, indeed, irony immune…
It’s especially disingenuous because removing a post by definition isn’t censorship, but one could argue that only allowing comments by flaired users is much closer to it.
removing a post by definition isn’t censorship
What dictionary are you reading, my guy?
Right, it’s pre-censorship. Also the definition of an echo chamber. “Only people who are verified as agreeing may reply”
I’m tempted to sign up there now.
Honestly I think it’s fine, smart, and like they said, a little bit funny.
If some portion of Trump’s audience is on Truth Social, it makes a reasonable amount of sense to go there with targeted messaging for them. Posting clips of Republicans complimenting Biden or criticizing Trump is a good way to stir up a bit of division amongst Republicans, and it shows that the Democrats aren’t afraid of Trump’s echo chamber.
On the plus side, it won’t be long before they get banned for trashing Trump, and that’ll only show what completely spineless bitch asses the far right are.
I doubt Biden will get banned. It’d be much better to just shadowban or at least limit the amount of exposure. You accomplish the same thing without looking like you are censoring.
Banning will give lots of Republicans cognitive dissonance since this platform and other right wing platforms that are slowly being legitimized like Rumble heavily use free speech in their marketing.
Easy to ban and ignore regular people, but banning a president will inevitably end up on the news. Maybe Trump will decide that the media exposure will be good anyways, though. Any PR is good PR has essentially been Trump’s main strategy since 2015.
I don’t think this is endorsing. Are they telling people to use it?
You’re right it’s not literally endorsing, but it’s going to undeniably bring more traffic for better or worse
I doubt it. Liberals aren’t joining that cesspool just because Biden’s trolling there, and the conservatives aren’t gonna join up because of Biden.
I think if you were going to join truth social, you’d have done it by now.
Yeah, and what happens when the doors to their echo chamber are opened? Will they get pissed that there’s people that don’t think like them and leave? I dunno, but it should be entertaining.
About as good of a endorsement as taking the stage at a Trump rally and laughing into the mic indefinitely while they boo. That is to say, it makes a fun story but it’s not exactly a endorsement.
I mean, I’ve already seen comments alleging users here joining to watch, which is bringing traffic and engagement so the platform is being fed. That’s really all I’m on about, it’s minute but it’s all I thought of when I saw this.
Lol does this mean it’s okay to join the platform ironically? Because I am ready for the trolling!
Don’t. It still gives them active users. One account is fine. If we all start doing it then they get to show actual growth. Investors don’t care if it’s ironic.
Ok so we need one explorer to monitor and report back on trolling progress!
Why does it matter though?
If more of their active users are trolls, that shouldn’t help the site.
Money. It always matters because of money. More active users means more ads which means more money. Don’t vicariously donate to these assholes.
But if the site were to become inundated with leftist degeneracy, it could scare away right leaning advertisers. Call it a reverse Twitter.
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Could potentially extend the life of this shit platform.
It doesn’t matter. Nothing matters. It’s social media. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that any of it means a damn. It’s not real.
Nothing matters, you’re right. Everything that happens doesn’t matter after enough time . That’s irrelevant though and if you don’t want to discuss meaningless things then don’t post.
But it does mean a damn. Maybe not to you… But it means a lot to some people. Also, I’m not sure how any informed person can say “it doesn’t matter” post Cambridge Analytica.
Could also potentially shorten it.
Yeah, it’s validating and promoting it to some extent. Not that Twitter is much better these days, if that’s the alternative.
I’m really happy to see this: The pushing of conservatives off silicon-valley platforms is magnifying the polarization in America because people went from algorithmic filter bubbles to true information bubbles. The Internet is very much bifurcated into conservative and liberal echo chambers. It’s a small step but it’s a step.
Wait, hold on a sec, what do they mean “Bidens likely opponent”? You mean to tell my, the Dems are gonna go with Biden again? I thought it was a one time thing, because they didn’t have anyone else, and that in four years they’ll find someone.
It’s a shame that the best Democrat candidate for 2024 is an eighty year old man. Not saying he is senile or whatever, but why 80? Can’t even wrap my head around this shit.
I sincerely wish there was an age limit on becoming the president. Admittedly, Biden himself is doing pretty well for an 80-year-old man, but people that old will always have outdated opinions and politics.
When they wrote the rules there were probably a dozen octogenarians in the entire country.
That would have been the case had Trump faded away at all. Unfortunately, he has as much support as he ever did. Now the logic is that the person most likely to defeat Trump is the person who has already defeated him once before.
This is dumb. Don’t stoop to his level. This is why America is so divided.
You gotta do more reading, homie. Joining a social media site is hardly what divided America haha
this isn’t why America is divided what lol. It’s divided because of misinformation and an education system that is totally failed so critical thinking is fucked.
It’s divided because people believe every whacked out conspiracy theory and even policy makers make policy on said conspiracies.
It’s divided because the super wealthy want to remain in power and it’s easy for them since money is allowed in politics.
Biden joining Truth Social is just plain comedy.
