They are no different than if any celebrety or political figure went on national TV Twitter and said those things.
[ftfy: Twitter is not TV. One carries an expectation of content and quality control, the other does the opposite. But otherwise:]
Precisely! When Tila Tequila or Kanye West get on Twitter and say retarded shit, a few news outlets will report on it, a few people (usually on the left, because most moral busybodies tend to align themselves with the left) will get outraged, and then... nothing will happen. Another tweet will come up, and the cycle will begin anew.
Thank you so much for backing up my point so eloquently.
Twitter accounts aren't "meant" for anything beyond expressing a message less than 140 characters long at a time. There are a variety of things that people use them for, and Trump uses his for stirring up controversy, flexing his e-penis, and venting when he's angry.
Saddam... you are literally agreeing with me, except you're starting the sentence with "no ur wrong".
I don't know how you could possibly argue something like this after the election we just witnessed. Trump's tweets have already had major consequences, both positive and negative. He probably would have lost the election if not for Twitter. Don't you remember the shitstorm about him retweeting posts from white nationalists, like the "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" picture? Or how he's been hammered for continuing to make pro-birther tweets years after he supposedly "ended" the issue by getting Obama to release his long-form birth certificate? Or the hilarity that ensued when Hillary began calling attention to Trump's friendliness with people tweeting Pepe memes? Even one tweet he made years ago about global warming being a Chinese hoax formed Hillary's main argument against him on that issue. As far as Trump's administration goes, the consequences I expect we're going to see play out are how heavily he's strained his relationship with top Republicans.
Ah, yes, all those things that massively set his campaign back and caused MSM to Streisand Effect the fuck out of his candidacy. Yep, definitely the consequences of tweets.
All those super serious issues like people insisting that this:
contains a Star of David and is therefore clearly anti-semitic. All those serious, influential people,
who apparently have never been to a supermarket before. It's a shame that he didn't come out as a
Satanist instead.
I'm glad that you genuinely think Pepe won the election, though, and that you're taking yourself seriously enough to admit it. That's hilarious.
When I talked about the mainstream media, I had meant reasonably moderate newspapers, like the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc., rather than openly left-wing sources. However, after further research, I've discovered that those moderate newspapers aren't nearly as unanimously pitted against the whiny liberals and their safe spaces as I had thought. Indeed, there are just many articles from them defending such liberals and their ideas as there are articles criticizing them. So I'll retract my complaint about this being the mainstream narrative, as that doesn't appear to be the case.
Woop woop, you backed away from your least insane claim, the one you could have actually tried defending, while doubling down on the sheer lunacy of "
Pepe the Frog helped Trump win the election". Well done.