Apparently, Facebook is a safe haven for people who call for the beheading of public officials

[lizard-of-oz]

I will edit my post to make it more clear what I meant, because that has nothing to do with what you wrote.

@BackUp

#DefundThePolice… bad messaging for social change as it can easily be warped into ‘get rid of the police’ - these people are of no value.

In the US, the value of the current police to the public is negligible, the harm they do both to individuals and to society is significant.

There is many studies that demonstrate that the current system is beyond reform, so the only way towards a police that protects and serves the public, everything that is currently there must go, and an entirely new system with mostly new people needs to be built.

In my experience, meaningful change starts with not beating around the bush.

About the rest of your post, I have no clue what you even mean, because I can clearly discern between a call to action and a metaphor in each of the examples.

I don’t care much about hypothetical questions about killing Trump, because who cares about something that will definitely not happen?

[Sludge]

@BackUp

In some cultures and places in the world talking about putting someones head on a spike is a call to arms and literally severe a persons head from their body and display it.

Seriously. Confronted with Trump with a weapon in your hand would you choose rhetoric or action?

Would you actually behead and save all the lives he has lost through self serving word play or just keep throwing out words into the void?

@Sludge

When he mentions putting Zuck’s head on a pike

[smulder]

@jonathan_colvin

Metaphor is a thing

A metaphor for what?

Bannon explicitly framed “heads on pikes” as different from and more severe than “firing,” for instance

Steve Bannon calls for beheading Dr. Fauci and FBI Director Wray

This is what Bannon said Second term kicks off with firing Wray, firing Fauci. Now I actually want to go a step farther but I realize the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man. I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you’re gone — time to stop playing games. snopes.com/fact-check/bannon-fauci-wray-hea…

It’s not at all clear what he meant, if not literal executions

[anon27554371]

Plot thickens:

Parler Makes Play for Conservatives Mad at Facebook, Twitter

Social app Parler apparently receives funding from the conservative Mercer...

[Crowley]

There was a hearing yesterday where Zuckerberg and Dorsey were brought before the Senate to answer some questions. The Dems, particularly Blumenthal, hammered Zuckerberg on why Bannon was allowed to keep his account among other issues. The Republicans attacked Mark and Jack for their usual garbage. Of course, Silicon Valley techno-utopian Mike Masnick decided to make a long-winded thread covering the hearings. In the thread, he equates the Dems asking why Facebook lets highly prominent people spew death threats with the Republicans who demand that all manner of hate and lies be allowed on the platform. People like Mike make me fucking sick.