usa is not a safe place to visit tbh
Turkish got saying USA is dangerous..
Killed any more Russian ambassadors lately? Any night club shootings? Any hostile government coups?
USA isn't safe though, which is why Trump wants to offer Mexico the protection of the wall, since so many of them accidentally end up here.
Twitter also made it possible to do it anonymously, with no regard to actual facts even if they know them, and in a way that rewards dishonesty as long as it's compelling and provocative.
For free and at a large scale if you know how to work the system.
I'm not suggesting anything needs to be done, I use Twitter and it is what it is. Just an observation.
not radicalized, just mentally ill and untreated (Repugs say America's broke)
Fort Lauderdale airport shooting suspect was Iraq vet with mental health issues, says brother
had a history of mental health problems — some of which followed his military service in Iraq — and was receiving psychological treatment at his home in Alaska,
"Only thing I could tell you was when he came out of Iraq, he wasn't feeling too good," his uncle,
In November, Santiago told FBI agents in Alaska that the government was controlling his mind and was forcing him to watch Islamic State group videos,
Bryan Santiago said his brother never spoke to him directly about his medical issues.
"We have not talked for the past three weeks," Bryan Santiago said. "That's a bit unusual ... I'm in shock. He was a serious person ... He was a normal person."
While in Iraq, Santiago cleared roads of improvised explosive devices and at least two members of his company were killed
"It was like he lost his mind," she said in Spanish of his return from Iraq. "He said he saw things."
At Fort Lauderdale, "after he claimed his bag, he went into the bathroom and loaded the gun and started shooting. We don't know why,"
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Upd...s-says-brother
Thanks, Repugs, and you, too, Tillerson! So much continuing blood, lives, refugees on your hands
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https://newrepublic.com/article/138946/literary-agentsToday the state maintains its capacity to influence political thinking, but the frontiers have shifted. Freedom is now defended less in little magazines than on social media. In 2014, the U.S. Agency for International Development was caught nurturing a Cuban version of Twitter—a logical extension of the CIA’s work in the ’50s and ’60s. And as Edward Snowden’s revelations demonstrate, the promotion of freedom through open communications remains uncomfortably intertwined with the potential for surveillance. What’s more, the vehicles we employ for personal speech are not only subject to electronic censorship and propagandistic manipulation by governments: They are also corporate properties. While social media can facilitate the circulation of ideas and the defense of free thought, they also depend on profit-chasing and maximizing saleable engagement. In such a highly mediated and monitored system, the line between participation and unwitting collaboration can be difficult to discern.
Today the specific configuration of state interference may have changed, but we remain subject to forces that shape our opinions and the boundaries of our thinking in ways we cannot see clearly. How will we recognize it in ourselves if we, too, are finks?
While social media can facilitate the circulation of ideas and the defense of free thought, they also depend on profit-chasing and maximizing saleable engagement.
It's because of this that I see Twitter becoming less "open" over time.
Ultimately, ad dollars rule and sites frequently move towards sanitation when they need more revenue.
Supposing said social media does not become entangled with state power, I agree. There might be compelling political/LE reasons for keeping them open.
As popular as Twitter is, its business is not doing well.
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