“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.
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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.
And they're very particular about it. They wouldn't let me join with a Google Voice # or my voip home number. I wasn't about to give those chucklefucks my real cell # so I bailed.
Perfect call on their part though : no real Trump suppporter would refuse to give him their 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.
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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.
Couple of hours ago I saw video on yt with title "Biden joins Truth Social. THEY ARE DESPERATE" I didn't watch the video so idk what was acually said. Some years ago I watched conservative content. Even though I dont watch it at all anymore I still sometimes get shit like this in my homepage.
Yup, I watched part of a Tim Cast (never heard of him before the yt recommendation, nor consumed any similar content previously) video, a lot of it was unhinged and I clicked out quickly with the ramping hatred intensity and rage baiting.
It took like a year for yt to stop recommending me similar far alt-right bullshit because I watched maybe five or ten minutes of a Tim Cast video
You don't have to click on a far-right video. You can also get them when you click on a progressive video, or a medical video, or a gaming video.
When Amazon first introduced their "People who liked X also liked Y" feature, it was hilariously easy to manipulate. You could just spam links back and forth and within a few minutes, "People who liked The King James Bible also like A Hand in the Bush: The Lost Art of Vaginal Fisting".
It didn't take too long for them to put a stop to it but decades later, are we actually sure content suggestion algorithms are any better at withstanding manipulation?
The far-right aren't exactly good people so I doubt they're saying "Sure, I openly celebrate mass shooters that target minorities but I draw the line at using sleazy techniques manipulate content suggestions".
My yt algorithm has turned into endless lefty stuff with the occasional funny video, and my ads are nothing but Jordan peterson and TPUSA.
Usually the ones I see are clearly fishing for vulnerable people; a practise they put a huge amount of time, money and effort into.
They're active in conspiracy groups because it's a good place to find unmedicated schizophrenics.
They're active in gaming groups because it's a good place to find lonely, disaffected young men.
They're active in anti-vax groups because they're a good place to find uneducated, paranoid people.
They're active in fundamentalist circles because it's a good place to find bigots.
I've found that going anywhere near any of those topics will cause the algorithm to start baiting its hook.
I made the mistake of watching a nice little old guy showing how to collect and refine clay. In his video, I got an ad from Epoch times about their new anti-trans smear piece, and two videos from some dude saying that a Democrat planned global food shortage was going to subdue the resistant population so here is why you need solar panels and colloidal silver. The website in the ad went to a single page that tried to sell me "free" trump gold bars that would skyrocket in value. No other links on the page worked. Needless to say, I reported all the ads, but YouTube is still running this harmful and scam-bait content.
I have a similar problem from watching firearm content on YouTube. YouTube just assumes I love right wing media because I'm interested in guns.
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.
Yeah, but it's like money. It's all made up bs, but it does affect people's lives.
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.
