Twitter Lifts McConnell Campaign Suspension

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Two days after it suspended Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) reelection campaign account for posting a video of a protester cursing the senator’s “raggedy, wrinkled-ass neck,” Twitter announced Friday that it had lifted the “Team Mitch” account’s suspension.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1241691
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I guess they took those threats against silicon valley liberal bias from his Nibs seriously (at least he’ll take credit for it). #moscowmitch owes somebody a favor.

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“#FreeMitch victory”? That’s pathetic. Weak. Loser!
Also, Team Turtle should have been banned right after they posted death threats to McGarth, Garland and others.

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Minutes after Twitter announced the end of Team Mitch’s suspension, both the campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee — who said Thursday that it would stop spending on Twitter ads to protest against the suspension

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Ah… So we’re taking the modern Germany route. Where it’s illegal to glorify Nazis or display the Nazi salute/flag, except in the case of historical documentaries for educational purposes.

And roughly 24 hours a day, there’s always at least one channel with a good old-fashioned documentary about some aspect of WWII there.

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#saltmine

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Yech, I don’t want to imagine Mitch shirtless

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Twitter is like a rehab clinic for severely-addicted patients who don’t actually want to get any better.

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If anyone wants to know just how complicated this can get, there’s a good writeup here:

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In other words, Twitter let themselves be bullied into allowing McConnell to call for retaliation against that woman.

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I’m not sure if Neiwert voluntarily did it, but he changed his profile picture.

sigh

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Twitter is a shitshow. I look forward to the day when Twitter goes the way of MySpace.

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They used his grandson’s body for that gif.

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No doubt “triggered” by an angry deluge of alt-right white Christian naitionalists complaint brigading Twitter…and Twitter, having been cowed by Faux News and Trump and their threats to abuse power to punish non-compliant Big Tech, was more than happy to have found itself an excuse to manufacture a bothsiderism situation. “See??? We’re not anti-conservative!!! We just banned someone for depictions of Klan hoods!!! How dare they???”

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That’s getting very close to TPM turf!

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Hey wait a minute…
We resemble that

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Twitter-Post Monthly?

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Can’t wait until Twitter notices that an orange wig is the new KKK hood…

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I’m doing errands (yeh that’s it), but I love that Jack finally admitted that money equals speech.

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