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thimbronion: reports of actual zoo animals on the streets, including lion.
billymg: BingoBoingo: possibly a minor typo: missing "continues" or "escalates" at the end of the first sentence
billymg: or change the "as" to something else
BingoBoingo: tyvm, fixed
billymg: BingoBoingo: did you see the escalating feud between twitter and trump also?
billymg: with twitter blocking replies/retweets on one of his posts claiming it "glorified violence", and him responding by posting the same thing from the @whitehouse account
billymg: which lasted for a little while before they blocked that one too
thimbronion: Trump has had it coming for a while. He did nothing while rw twitter was decimated since 2016.
asciilifeform: speaking of which, recent lulz
billymg: thimbronion: yeah, i have no idea what is actually going on behind the scenes
billymg: for all i know it's all theatre
thimbronion: asciilifeform: yeah that's clearly not working
BingoBoingo: Been following, but it is the problem the entire US right has. They endorse they censoring of all their coreligionists and get surprised when the banhammer comes for them.
asciilifeform still can't muster any sympathy for 'deplatformed'. stop sitting on 'platforms' .
thimbronion: Maybe since Trump can't tweet anymore he'll actually use executive power.
asciilifeform: or, wat, trump is outta pocket change to buy radio spectrum ? or can't afford to send 'journalists' to feed fishes ?
thimbronion: Or maybe not.
asciilifeform: ( or, can't afford to hire the php monkeys to bake own twatter ? which is it )
thimbronion: Or maybe he's been Bolsonaro'd from the start and didn't want to force the issue.
asciilifeform: thimbronion: or, as i said in '16 (and is afaik the only hypothesis that 100% fits the facts of his reign) was a tame zhirinovsky from day1
thimbronion: asciilifeform: it could be. I lean more towards boomer innocense/stupidity.
thimbronion: He came up in a time when pussy grabbing was ok. Doesn't know what it's like on the street.
asciilifeform: thimbronion: old man didn't even lift a finger to press the buttons which nominally still wired to sumthing. e.g. his various subordinates who were jailed, did he pardon ? (theoretically there is no limit on whom can pardon)
thimbronion: asciilifeform: that was pure cowardice.
asciilifeform: cowardice in 80yo ? wat's he afraid of ?
thimbronion: I know lotsa 80yos afraid of corona. Terrified.
asciilifeform: some folx 'terrified' from cradle to grave. before plague, prolly were afraid of bees.
thimbronion: He's also getting really bad council from Javanka. Doesn't excuse his cowardice, stupidity and betrayal in any way.
asciilifeform: imho moar parsimonious hypothesis is that he worked for the beast from day1.
asciilifeform: ( who doesn't work for the beast, cannot keep $bil in usg bank. elementarily. )
asciilifeform recalls the lulzy mp threads where he 'clitler will starve in the darkest prison!' etc
thimbronion: right. And Trump was going to pull a napoleon.
asciilifeform: suuure, aaanydaynao!11
thimbronion: invasion of CNN hq in progress
thimbronion: Nobody could have predicted that putting half the country out of work would result in riots.
shinohai: Hey thimbronion ... that's pretty near to me. If weren't night would go take pics. xD
thimbronion: shinohai: Don't flames look best at night?
shinohai: They do!
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