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0 pointsalkonaut5y ago0 comments

That’s a scenario I find much less likely than the hundreds of Trump tweets that would set off domestic violence within minutes.

If Trump would tweet what the fringe communities want to hear (example: Trump tweets that state law enforcement have started rounding up people with Hawaii shirts and confiscating their weapons and should be seen as enemy combatants and engaged on sight. That would turn ugly very quickly).

A well crafted tweet about e.g the Taliban could easily put US soldiers abroad in harms way immediately too.

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jkhdigital5y ago

I think you’re overestimating the number of people in the US who would actually respond decisively to something like that. But it’s more than zero, unfortunately, which is too many.

alkonautOP5y ago

Yeah I don’t think it would be the start of a civil war but I certainly believe dozens or hundreds of people would become violent.

tornato75y ago

Up the reaction would be more like "oh look, another stupid Trump tweet."

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