• Majestikmk@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It is important to note that if you followed the official VP Harris or POTUS Biden, those accounts were turned over to Vance and Trump yesterday. It’s not actually an auto-follow because you were already following them.

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      23 hours ago

      Friend of mine showed a screenshot that the official FLOTUS was just renamed to add “archive”

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        21 hours ago

        Well that is pretty fucking shitty then. Either conceptualize the potus account as being all presidents ever or don’t autosub people to the new different account.

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        Important context, yes.

        But also of note is that there were users who tried to unfollow and it would re-add. Only blocking worked.

        So its not as clean here as it seems.

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      24 hours ago

      I wonder if trump is now paying people to comb back through previous posts to look for things he can delete or edit to rewrite history. Now that I’ve said I feel fairly sure he’s doing exactly that because he does anything dishonest that he can which is tolerated

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        Itsan outdated practice but its not stupid in a traditional democracy. Who the elected official is should not make a difference in wether or not people are interested to know what government communicates.

        Changing it would be like if in the old days your dedicated radio station changing frequencies because they got a new boss. Plenty (old people) would just be confused on why there is no news.

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        23 hours ago

        It’s almost like the president doesn’t actually matter and the state will violently serve capital regardless.