• Talcosis@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Not really, trumpy himself is normalizing threats of violence. ABC is (correctly) pointing out that’s he’s more often than not too much of a bitch to act on them.

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      3 days ago

      No they’re not just pointing it out. As it says “needs to be viewed”. ABC is advocating for specific interpretation of the president’s statements and that interpretation is undoubtedly sane washing threats to negotiators.

      If it were responsible journalism it might have pointed out the amount of times he started bombing in the middle of negotiations before.

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        3 days ago

        Yeah…they’re literally saying that the threats need to be viewed in the context of trump being consistently too chickenshit to follow through. That isn’t normalizing threats. That’s adding context, and the context is that these threats are often meaningless.

        Edit: otherwise, we are all normalizing threats by not taking them seriously at face value and rushing to the bomb shelters every time Donnie opens his mouth.