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This is absolutely not a "both sides" thing. The owner of the network is spending record amounts of money on getting Republicans elected this cycle (and last). The idea that his social network would do anything counter to the whims of the CEO or his pal is utterly laughable.

Yeah, X is one sided thing just like Reddit or CNN is more democrat aligned. I think Facebook was quite anti Trump policies for a while as well.

And the Biden campaign illegally worked with the previous owner to censor content in order to influence the election and was never held accountable. Both sides.

What do you mean “it would have been marked as hatred”? It _is_ hatred, bigotry, racism, etc. Trump isn’t shy about showing how racist and hateful he is.

> I think most of Trump agenda(I.e anti immigration, anti trans/lgbtq+ policies) would not have survived on social media or at least on Twitter/x.

Then how did he get elected in 2016 with a heavy social media presence and then continue using Twitter as his primary direct communication method as POTUS up until 2021?

Maybe I missed something but I think at some point his social media accounts were suspended. I think may be a hint that the “establishment” didn’t make him any favours.

I think he won because the Democratic Party acted like a broken record(and still does) lecturing and belittling a good chunk of the electorate. Chances are that even with so much economic pain and whole clown show, the democrats will lose again if they defy(again)a big part of the electorate.

His Twitter account was only suspended in January 2021 after being elected, serving a full term, and then losing the next election.

e.g. anti-anti-facism was missing, which is funniest use of "anti", and saddest for a POTUS.

I'm reminded of the very real phase "premature anti fascist": https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jul-15-bk-22387...

(I selected that from google as an example of the term but it turns out to be quite a read, of stories from around and before WW2)

Trump's movement originated on and proliferated on social media, what are you talking about? Jan. 6th was planned and organized on social media, often openly. His agenda would not have survived without social media.

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