Former U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he will launch his own social media platform, TRUTH Social, according to a press release by Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG).
https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/20/trump-launches-his-own-soc…
Trump says the network aims to 'give a voice to all' and 'fight back against big tech'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-announces-truth-socia…
Get ready for some truth, people
What are your thoughts? Will it be a success?
"Truth" Social actually bans speaking the truth about trump. It's actually written in the rules you can only say nice things about trump.
Pete Evans joining obv
Only if Truth can activate his almonds.
I applaud your bravery to post this on a forum that I believe 75% either vote Green or Labour or Democrats.
I truly do.
One thing I've learnt is that people who use the word truth and always conmen. It's always used car salesmen, religious fanatics, conspiracy nuts and criminals. It's beyond comical that trump was told repeatedly by judges that he appointed that his claims of election fraud were bogus. Then he starts "truth social". Of course the trump sheep will lap it up. The big irony being that it says in the fine print that truth about Trump and his associates isn't welcome on trooth social.
Just like when people use the term, misinformation 😁
People do use that term incorrectly but it is also used when trump sheep spread, you guessed it, misinformation
You are a trump supporter I presume? You realise trump has been laughed out of court by judges he appointed, right? His own party has told him there was no election fraud. You do realise trump is the very definition of misinformation, right? The bloke is a pathological liar. What do you think happened in the 2016 election? He was claiming election fraud coming up to the election. Then he won and all of a sudden, hmmm no fraud.
Yes.
Democrats could have called for an audit. I see why they wouldn't.
https://wendyrogers.org/summary-of-the-az-audit-and-canvass-…
@MikeKulls: Do I think the election was rigged? Definitely.
I think Time website said it was fortified.
Pipe leak during election night, quite convenient.
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02…
Couldn't find the more detailed one, but Biden only won 1 of 19 bellwether counties.
Any person who can think objectively for a minute could easily see why other may think the election was stolen.
@ozhunter: All the dumbest of the dumb conspiracy rubbish along the lines of flat earth. I've spoken to flat earthers and trump supporters extensively and honestly have trouble telling them apart. The reality is trumps own people told him there was nothing in it. Trump went to court and said he would provide rock solid evidence (something the flerf always claim) and then produced absolutely nothing. His own judges laughed him out of court. If you believe any of it then you've been indoctrinated.
BTW, this statement "Any person who can think objectively for a minute could easily see" is exactly the thing flerf say, almost word for word.
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It baffles me that people still support trump even though it's so blatantly obvious he's just grifting. He just needs to utter a few things conservatives want to hear and then they all just drop their pants, and throw money at him. I don't understand how people keep falling for his bullsh*t.
This is because the Republicans have no platform other than clinging onto the arse of this twice impeached orange buffoon, who defecates one falsehood after another, and they feel they have no choice but to regurgitate those lies to their equally idiotic constituents.
The thing I always found funny was trump supporters claiming the media was out to get him. Reality is the media is more honest with trump than any president in History. They simply didn't need to make stuff up with trump.
There is no Republican platform anymore. All those principles of fiscal responsibility, social conservatism, and family values went down the toilet the second they picked Donald Trump to be their nominee. Their party platform now is 'own the libs.'
Get ready for some truth, people
Thanks, but I've had monthly subs to science and an education for a while now
Comes with a free sub to not being a whiny manchild who's convinced the whole world is out to get them
Nice, so all the wacko and delusional conspiracy theorists will have a new playground.
I guess the wacko and delusional conspiracy theorists will discuss the lab "hoax"
Is zeroHedge wacko and delusional?
Here is their most wako and delusional theory: quantitative easing ("QE") by global central banks is a temporary and artificial asset-price support scheme, that makes the credit cycle even more extreme.
(profanity) insane!
meh
We are definitely on the worst timeline…
Calling your network "Truth" is like the Soviet Union releasing their propaganda newspaper called "Pravda" (literally truth in Russian).
Are users required to go through any hazing ritual? e.g. drinking bleach, etc…
Nothing is confirmed yet, 😄
Like anything Trump will fail, Christ he lost money owning a casino, ran a "charity" stealing donations from children with cancer, etc…
Maybe. I know it's mostly hype, but seems to be doing okay so far.
Former President Donald Trump's new media enterprise - Trump Media & Technology Group - is already worth an implied $8.2 billion following last week's buying frenzy following the announcement of it's special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Digital World Acquisition Corp. (ticker: DWAC).
And according to Bloomberg, citing SEC filings, it appears that Trump will own more than 50% of the combined company
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-gains-billions-net…
Why are we even talking about this idiot on these forums?
Everything he touched turned to $#!t, fact is if he invested all his money in stock and did nothing with his entire life he'd be richer. Why make the world worse with this garbage?
Only thing that will make people logon that $#!tshow would be the pee pee tape and thats it.
Give it 2 weeks, before it abandoned or is linked to seriously illegal and/or paedophile activity.
Why are we even talking about this idiot on these forums?
You're the one that came into the thread to make multiple comments. Could just skip it if you're not interested.
I think it'll be a flaming train wreck that goes out of business as soon as he stops bankrolling it (or when the providers turn it off because he's once again decided not to pay the bills).
That said, I think there is value in a communication provider that takes a completely hands off approach and actually behaves as a common carrier. Twitter, Facebook, etc are playing both sides as it suits them. It's totally appropriate and a good thing for them to provide users with ever improving ways to choose to filter out what we don't want - but I don't think it is appropriate when they're taking people off the platform because their comments fall into the current range of lies people care about.
I don't agree with those covid deniers, anti-vaxx mobs, or people taking horse medication and drinking bleach, or whoever - so I don't follow them, and don't have to see their lunacy. Likewise, offline, I don't go finding them and preventing them from having their stupid conversations with other stupid people. I'm more concerned about spambots and scams on the platform than Numpty Nigel with the hot take about some topic he's woefully lacking in knowledge about.
so I don't follow them, and don't have to see their lunacy.
It's that simple.
I love how many peoples heads Trump is living rent free in, so much random hate, I'm not a fan of the guy but well I don't need to convulse with anger and craziness anytime someone brings him up. I also won't ignore, exclude or refuse to interact with anyone who wants to discuss his side of things, as long as it's civil and rational discussion which in many cases with some US colleagues it has been.
What does concern me is the ever growing irrational behavior of people where suddenly if you do not 100% agree with everything that is the main narrative for whatever crisis is the current one (COVID & restrictions in Victoria is a good one) that people can't even engage in civil objective discussion, they just flip out and want people banned, blocked, censored, deplatformed, removed from being allowed any input to anything.
Its strange those usually on the left think everyone should only be allowed to have the single same thought process that they have and that nothing outside of that simple version of events should be questioned. I mean hey, if Dan Andrews "can't recall" then it shouldn't be anything we need to worry ourselves about right? right?
In Australia that seems to be accelerating very quickly to try and catch up to America where its out of control.
While I've ditched fb quite some time ago now (mainly due to the stupid on both sides of the argument) and can't stand the cancerous insanity that is twitter, I'm even more unlikely to head to another SM site that discusses whatever political leaning I may have. Mostly as neither of the two main sides have it right. Politically homeless almost.
I think there has been a huge overreaction and overreach by the powers that control fb, twitter, general media and whatever other sites are out there about many things deemed
conspiracy theories which after time passes by are now fair game and can be discussed only on the terms that it's the way that X side (the left, dems etc) wants it discussed.
From lab leaks and celebrating the death of an innocent criminal by burning cities to the ground, to fortifying an election, where mere mention had people banned or deplatformed, all this has done for me is to reaffirm my lack of trust in not only the media but the governments around the world who are supporting this ramping up of hate and anger for each side.
The media is still a very powerful weapon that people are oblivious to, while it's promoting locking out those unvaccinated unbelievers and encouraging others to exclude them from life in one story, then the next using TikTok as a source of news to write articles for clicks, then back to another article praising our useless leaders of this state or country without daring to question or hold anyone accountable for anything that we have to suffer the outcomes of sh!t decisions.
Sadly it's the foolish that are unaware they're being played while supporting their side.
To believe that Trump Media and Technology Group is any more or less credible than what is already consumed as mainstream is a bit of a joke, and should highlight how terrible all of the other options are, they're all lying to us and many of you would go to the grave defending those lies.
That should be a wakeup call to those defending CNN, Fairfax etc as they're hardly that much more credible than what TMTG plans on being, now that's a TRUTH that people don't want to hear!
You've claimed to be objective and then repeated a bunch of trump style dumbest of the dumb cliques. The reality is trump causes division and we are seeing it in this group.
Rent Free.
The hard approach that only one side can be right is what causes the division. Both sides suffer from that and its ramping up.
Division was already there, don't pretend the US was a wonderful happy melting pot where everyone got along just peachy until Trump got in to office, you're lying to yourself and giving Trump way more credit for things than is due.
All media have dumped fuel on the fires and made things 1000 times worse than the reality of it all was, people need to stop ignoring that and pretending its one sided.
Your comments have shown you're part of the irrational, the fact that you tried to rule out everything I said shows that. Your way or not at all.
Your one way statements that "that statement is just plain wrong" and "quite often people's opinions are just ignorant and based on misinformation to the point they aren't even worth entertaining" are part of the problem.
Where did I bring up misinformation? I'm happy to dismiss misinformation so it doesn't keep being used, but I'm also willing to look in to things and get as much fact as possible.
Take a look at some of the other comments here for those who are apparently very centrist but the moment the T word is used the name calling and mini-meltdowns begin. That's strange behavior for an adult.
Melbourne / Victoria is extremely left leaning, many are very unwilling to accept any civil and logical discussion that doesn't fit their views.
Last week I had a colleague make a formal HR complaint about me, what was it about? The fact that I respectfully disagreed in a discussion that the unvaccinated shouldn't be excluded from everyday regular life including going in to the workplace, shopping, pubs or restaurants after suffering so long in Melbourne's lockdowns, especially as we've already hit substantial saturation of the vaccination which is slowly increasing.
There was no misinformation or conspiracy I was trying to push. My angle was its just a sh!tty thing to do to people.
She was all for "making them suffer for their bad decisions" (not getting vaccinated), she said that excluding them for all of 2022 wasn't enough (things Mr Andrews is saying will take place unless you get vaccinated for his "vaccinated only" economy), she then instantly lumped everyone who didn't agree with her view on that as one of the many names called in this thread associated with the "T" word. There were a couple others who backed her on this.
In her mind she is unquestionably correct and will not entertain that there could be another view or discussion. I am seeing this more and more often now, and it always escalates the same way where it is 100% this or not at all.
She very seriously wanted me banned from going to the office over this (we don't even work at the same site or team), clearly as her way of having her point validated and to then extend the exclusion of the unvaccinated from the workplace to those who don't agree with her.
I'm vax'd, I'm NOT saying don't get vaccinated.
But you know "Trump causes division" …
Yet again, you presented yourself as open and objective yet demonstrated the exact opposite. In the very next sentence you claimed "What does concern me is the ever growing irrational behavior of people where suddenly if you do don't 100% agree with everything that is the main narrative for whatever crisis is the current one". This is just an outright lie and quite frankly a stupid statement. To me it shows more you thinking along those lines than other. Do you not see that you've labelled yourself as objective and then in the very next sentence labelled everyone who disagrees with you as being an idiot? This is typical trump supporter behavior
@MikeKulls: I'm sure you mean that as a very layered insult, however I am not and have never been a Trump supporter.
He was the catalyst that made me leave the bulk of SM back in 2016 due to the overdrive of crazy in the media and online that made people so angry, the continual doom scrolling about the end of the world coming because of one loud American.
You seem to be the one labeling people.
I'm happy to have conversations with people (example even provided) yet people aren't always reacting normally to basic conversations around what seem to be sensitive topics like the vaccinated economy. The same conversation about locking people out of an economy in Victoria was met very differently speaking with European friends who could not understand what was happening here.
I would add to this that if you think everyone is against you it's because you're saying stuff that is so beyond the pale they have an extreme reaction to it. There was a lot of outright misinformation and misconceptions in your posts I couldn't be bothered to address them all.
"Its strange those usually on the left think everyone should only be allowed to have the single same thought process"
Sh!t like this, where do you even start with statements like that. It's comical and childish.
"From lab leaks"
There is nothing to prove anything leaked from a lab. The media have reported both sides of this though repeatedly.
"to fortifying an election"
Does this mean you believe the election was stolen lies? I mean come on, if you believe that rubbish that is why you get the reaction you do.
@MikeKulls: I never said everyone was against me, I was saying that a large amount of Victorians are very left leaning, further left than the average Australian.
What have I said that's so extreme there?
You're accusing me of saying things that are so crazy people have extreme reactions, you couldn't be bothered to address them all but you could name call?
Just because you say "misinformation and misconceptions" along with "trump supporter" or whatever else is in your playbook doesn't make it true. (So close to a pun on the TRUTH name right there wasn't I).
The lab leak theory had people deplatformed, banned labeled as all sorts of things, a year later its brought up as a very real possibility that should be taken seriously.
Is it not strange that the passing of a year and a new President in the USA suddenly means this is a topic that can be discussed without the name calling and expelling people from SM platforms?
Something that was pounded in the media as conspiracy and stupid is no longer reported in that way.
The "fortifying an election" quote was from a TIME article I linked elsewhere in this thread.
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
"That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures."
At no time did I say that Trump won, I never said it was stolen, I never entered in to any of that, I just read a lot about it and found that quite interesting and rather open about how the election was won if it's to be believed, if its not its strange it made it in to TIME and was so open about the win that they curated for the sake of democracy, because at any other time that does seem like a very strange article to write.
Maybe you should stop putting words in peoples mouths and then calling them names.
@91rs: The statements you made that were extreme were things like "if you do not 100% agree with everything that is the main narrative". I've dealt a lot with flat earthers before and conspiracy theorists and they tend to jump around, post a lot of stuff in one post etc which makes it hard to point out all the obvious lies they post. This is what you're doing. So I'm going to do what I do with the flerf, reply to just this one thing you said. In the above statement you are exaggerating the opinions you see as the opposition to you. You characterise them as following 100% everything the govt does. The reality is this is simply wrong and very ignorant. Go question a few people and they will all have varying opinions about what the govt is doing. It's simply not right to say people follow the narrative 100%. Surely you get that.
Just so you don't think I'm doing this to ignore everything you have said, I'll reply to your statements about the lab. This was well publicised in the media from day 1. It was always considered a possibility. I'm not sure why you think otherwise.
@MikeKulls: Flat earth now huh?, Yeah you totally got me, the Trump loving flat earth conspiracy nut just like all the rest on here (/s).
The lab theory was publicised and very swiftly labeled along with anyone who continued to talk about it as a Trump supporting conspiracy and misinformation nut.
Discussion of that topic (as a whole, not just the fringe weird bits) was banned on YT and FB, FB only lifted their ban around June this year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-07/facebo…
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ends-ban-on-posts-asse…
It lead to people who were talking about the possibility of a lab leak (leaving aside all of the racial BS many people had to say, which rightly so should be stopped) being censored, banned or in some cases deplatformed for continuing to push it as an option.
It was turned into a topic that could not and should not be discussed.
That then was reversed this year as the right people were discussing it as a possibility and now its OK.
That's why I think otherwise, because it was otherwise.
@91rs: This is a reasonable point but all you've really shown there is facebook fact checkers do get things wrong, maybe. I would like to see exactly what people got banned for. If it's statements like "this virus definitely came from a lab" well that is a lie and is still a lie. Even if it's proven true in the future it's still a lie right now. That might sound counter intuitive but they are saying "I currently know it came from a lab" which obviously they don't. The big irony also is that information originally came from the media you say are liars.
"What does concern me is the ever growing irrational behavior of people where suddenly if you do not 100% agree with everything that is the main narrative"
As an example, statements like this are just ludicrous, inflammatory and at odds with what you're trying to present yourself as. That statement is just plain wrong. Most people are quite fine varying opinions but quite often people's opinions are just ignorant and based on misinformation to the point they aren't even worth entertaining.
"Its strange those usually on the left think everyone should only be allowed to have the single same thought process"
Again, what even is this statement? Again, it's just an ignorant statement and again at odds with what you are trying to present yourself as.
Spot on. One side or the other. Black or white. For or against. Only binary thinking allowed.
Op you need to remember that a majority of people on this forum live in Melbourne and have loved every minute of being locked in their own state for the previous 2 years.
They prefer echo chambers over differing opinions.
Too many with a strange obsession with the premier who have been calling him "daddy Dan" since he started locking everyone down.
Gives you a good window in to the sad mental state of many Victorians.
If you need to lie to make your point then not even you believe it.
Haha, I'm aware.
The side who loves censorship are now unhappy that there could be a large social media site where there is censorship. They love it as long as people like them doing it.
large social media site
I expect it to be as large as Trump's hands…..
Could be, it could be a flop. Just gotta wait and see I guess.
Go President Trump !!!
Most people would like to see him go (i.e. disappear 🙂)
The king has returned to reclaim swamp throne.
Was Pravda taken?
Its just another QANON loving echo chamber.
Free speech = only allowing preferred views…
I'll pass.
Well they banned Trump from all the normal social media, so what exactly did we expect him to do?
Shut the (profanity) up and crawl into a hole?
Does that strike you as something that Trump would do?
Maybe think about why he was banned and change his ways? I know I know, this is trump
The terms of service further added that users would be forbidden to "disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site". Truth Social said it has the right to "suspend or terminate your account" and also "take appropriate legal action"
Pretty sure all the others would have this too
Facebook won't stop you spreading true information about Facebook or Zuckerberg though. If I link to a new article that is negative about facebook they won't take it down or ban me. I'm absolutely betting they will on twooth social though
There will be a lot of (profanity) on there trying to bring down the system. Of course there will be. It's obvious. They have to have some way of dealing with that. I personally don't think that people with anti-Trump views that want to have a rational and well thought out discussion will be banned. I guess we will see.
@VictimEqualsProfit: I'm absolutely betting that if you post a factual article about something like Stormy Daniels you'll be banned immediately.
@VictimEqualsProfit: Actually, like all conspiracy related groups, they keep a few people around to actually post factual information and get the conversation going. So you won't be banned immediately but if you start to reply too much and debunk the clear and obvious trump lies too much then you'll quickly be banned.
@VictimEqualsProfit: Thinking about what the forum will be like … I've had some extended conversations with Trump supporters before and they really do spread very clear and obvious lies. Most of what they say you take a 5 second look at it and the only reasonable reply is "well that's simply not factually correct". In some case it takes a 30 second google. So it will be very easy to debunk 99% of what is posted there. It's very much like flat earth groups. Forums like that can't exist without some heavy moderation. If they don't ban the people pointing out the lies they quickly overwhelm the "truthers" and then the trump supporters leave. The trump supporters are then replaced by trolls who say more and more ridiculous things supposedly in favour of trump. This ends up just making trump supports look even worse than they already do.
Meh. You don't have to sign up to it. Just sounds like you hate censorship unless you agree to what should be censored.
@ozhunter: I will be signing up to it for a laugh. I love censorship when it makes sense. Like when people are storming govt buildings killing people and president is praising them, in that case yes censorship makes sense. When people are spreading very clear and obvious lies then censorship makes sense. Same for racism, sexism etc. When I don't like censorship is when people get censored for spreading accurate information. It doesn't matter who it is about but if I say something true that is inconvenient and I am censored then that is a problem. This will be the trump platform.
@MikeKulls: Cool, that's one extra user. The more the better.
Maybe they'll check in with the truth gatekeepers to what they should censor.
@MikeKulls: "I love censorship when it makes sense."
Lol, okay Stalin. You know who else would love a censored kingdom? A rogue government who inherit the keys, which you SJWs so passionately supported.
@[Deactivated]: Most of the stuff trumpets say just makes me shake me head. You basically just exaggerated what I said out of the park and then argued against that. It a technique used when you can't argue against what someone actually said. Do you think there should be zero censorship ever? No? Then you agree with me.
@MikeKulls: "No? Then you agree with me."
Typical neo-leftist. Forcing values upon others, not allowing any room for discussion lol.
Who decides what form of censorship makes sense, you? Those that leave no room for argument?
Ever thought of applying for the DPRK? They'd love your service.
@[Deactivated]: Well the statement "When it makes sense" does leave things open to discussion, that's why I specifically made a general statement. It's you who isn't discussing it here and just came in and compared me to a corrupt govt. What don't you get about that?
@[Deactivated]: BTW, I'm not forcing anything on you. I'm just making a statement that you can't have a world with zero censorship. It was a general statement to that regard. Basically you have to have censorship in some form, the only question is how much, right? So you DO agree with my general statement that censorship must be > 0. Right?
@MikeKulls: Who is saying it must be zero though.
It will never be zero, but we should all strive to keep censorship as limited as possible.
It is not compatible with a free society to be be censoring speech, especially political speech.
@trapper: Sensible reply. The reason we got here is that I was making the statement that trump removing people/posts who spread factual information about him is not good. I was given a bunch of emotional, irrational replies to that and I allowed the thread to go of on a tangent. The question of exactly what to censor is a difficult one to answer but it's not something I was even addressing. My original point was trump is already gearing up to censor people who say things he doesn't like. The irony of course being this is called "Truth Social". If you look at the replies above, not one person has address that at all.
@MikeKulls: No, you're pro censoring whatever you deem fit, based on your personal beliefs. He's pro free speech, political speech especially, which is an understanding that people have differing views, whereas you simply force yours onto others.
""No? Then you agree with me."
"thanks for confirming you agree with me after all."
I'll just leave those comments here.
Yep, so you can spread any "truth" you want except truth about Donald Trump
Wow you guys sure we're busy 🙂
It's a little hypocritical when they state how the other platforms are "censoring" them yet have exactly the same terms of use.
What's the adage? You're free to your opinion and facts until it goes against mine.
I think that the trumptards that have been ousted from all the regular mainstream social media websites are going to flock there to recommence their echo chamber criticism of everything that isn't as racist, xenophobic, and soaked in conspiracy theories as they are.
Wow the OzLefties are really losing their minds here! It's fun to watch.
My favourite part is that you assume I'm a lefty because I think Trump is a lying ego maniacal idiot. You've taken the bait.
I'm pretty firmly in the centre of the political spectrum but I expect you're gunna cry that I'm a snowflake liberal woke something or other because it's how your type cope with the concept that your precious leader is literally an actual dumbass.
well I am right leaning, and will happily 100% agree with sir-screwball. trump has given the right a bad name by pretending to represent all of us while really only representing the nutjob extreme right. he and his supporters are the BLM of the right
I'll be honest - I don't know what a centre-right political viewpoint would even look like any more.
The right is painted as this flag-waving, offensive shirt wearing, misguided-idea-of-patriotism having pack of racist idiots with no real idea of how politics or economics works, just a healthy fear of anything they're told is evil such as homosexuality, transgenderism, socialised services like medicare and disability support, etc.
If there's any light to be shed on it, I'm pretty keen to hear it.
@sir-screwball: For me at least If you are centre then it is probably very similar to you but with a slightly more conservative view on economic management. I think you will find most right leaning people are not Flag waving hillybilly bigots though those are what get all the press and scream the loudest. I voted for same sex marriage, no issues with medicare or disability support services per se, though sometimes I do have issues with the excessive movement towards government having to pay for ever increasing services. Government should be lean in my view as generally regardless of which side of politics is in they tend to be extremely inefficient. Teach a man to fish side of government support.
Edit: or to put it another way, I am equally offended by the left media (e.g. ABC, CNN) and even more offended by the insane right media like fox news. I think it is incredibly sad how the republican party in the US has basically been hijacked by Trump degenerates and those that are against it in the party are mostly too spineless to stand up to it as they value their positions over whats right as they know Trump is anti free speech/Truth and will use money and power to stomp on anyone that says anything against him.
@gromit: My stance is that without the rife government corruption with hundreds of millions of dollars, billions in some cases, being spent on things no one wants or asked for like fighter planes, submarines, coal subsidy, blah blah blah we'd have so much money to throw around on all manner of things.
Government is more interested in lining its own pockets and those of their friends than they ever are or were with governing properly, for the people.
@gromit: This is one of the more sensible posts I've seen on Ozbargain. Both sides of politics have not covered themselves in glory and while I consider myself a leftie, it's only really been in response to Trump style right wing politics. Before that I voted whoever I thought was going to bring this country to a better place, regardless of side (and have voted across all parties over time). I miss those days.
Hey this leftie thinks its a great idea. Enjoy it, you all deserve to be around each other, all the time hehehe.
They copied Mastadon Open Source code and made it propietary breaking General Public License they have 30 days to take it down without getting sued or forced to rebuild the platform
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-truth-social-broke-…
They would argue that the original source code was in fact named Masterdon that it was stolen and renamed to Mastadon.
In an ideal world the 15-20% of the US population who actively support Twitler will go off and yell about the world in this cesspool of nothing, while the rest of the country moves on without them. Anything that keeps Trump's deceitful nonsense away from disengaged swing voters is ok with me. Also makes it more convenient for the FBI to monitor right wing terrorist cells if they all congregate on the same platform.
So many strong feelings just because it involves "Trump"
🤣 Truth!
Biggest liar in history calls his next failed business TRUTH - oh the irony.
@BigBirdy: We call these the smalls. I don’t agree with them all. But bigger issues are happening.