Good People, Donald Trump is not my type of leader, but on this one, I will vote YES for him to return to Twitter: “Elon Musk has opened a poll on Twitter asking users to decide whether former US president Donald Trump should be reinstated nearly two years after he was suspended from the social media platform”. Indeed, I have got to vote YES for Trump, not typical; I voted against him for the presidency.
When he was kicked out, I wrote that it was not a good call. Sure, he wrote many unfortunate things, but Trump was not just another Trump around the side of Brooklyn, he was the President of the United States. Even though he could act like a baby with those name-calling tweets, I thought he deserved a little more accommodation, because he represented a nation and a people, with access to the nuclear arsenal codes.
Sure, you can see it differently – every human must be treated the same way. I can respectfully write that thinking that way is an illusion. When a simple and mere social media can kick out a leader of the free world, you are having a new order in the world, more dangerous than the one Trump was promulgating with his tweets.
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Twitter was arrogant and intoxicated with power. When the queen of England died, I wrote that her death reminded me how my mother’s only surviving brother died in London, in the heat of the Biafran war – and till today, no one has clearly explained what happened to Augustine and some of his Igbo pals who perished. Some people (Nigerians) felt offended that I was bringing that up. In other words, they could have kicked me out here because they hated to be reminded of that past. They did not care about my family pains; their focus was just them!
Trump feels the media world is against him. Social media is the only way for him to fight back. He does not need to be kicked out. What Twitter needs to do is to moderate him. I voted YES and Elon Musk should bring him back. Of course, Trump might have moved on with his Truth Social. But he needs that opportunity again to make his case on Twitter while we ensure he does not escalate things to break social order.
Reinstate former President Trump
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022
My vote
Updated: The decision has been made by Elon Musk: ‘Former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been reinstated on the platform. The account, which Twitter banned following the January 6 attack on the Capitol, was restored after Twitter CEO Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter on Friday night asking the platform’s users if Trump should be reinstated. “The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated,” Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk tweeted Saturday night. “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Latin for “the voice of the people is the voice of God.’ Yet, I am not sure Trump will like what he will see: 1.4m followers instead of close to 100m he had pre-ban (it is possible depending on Twitter technology for that number to grow as the database is being restored). This is the right call even though I am not a Trump fan.
Comment on this: The poll on whether to bring back Trump or not was conducted on Twitter, and voted by Twitter users, what could be more democratic than that? Imagine eight or ten people making this kind of call for millions of people? If you believe that someone should not have a voice, then we will remove your own voice too, so that you can fully appreciate what it means not to have a voice.
Comment On Feed
Comment 1: I thought you gave up on Twitter, because you did not understand how it worked. What made you go back?
Comment 2: I do not post. But that does not mean I do not read and use Twitter. My account was not deactivated. You can go to a stadium and watch games even though you have given up playing football.
Comment 3: Ndubuisi Prof with the mass staff walkouts as a backlash to the draconian management shift, and twitter offices locked… now we see a ditching of the platform by principle conscious users in support of the staff….
The real question is will there be enough twitter users around to make a meaningful contribution to the poll?
My Response: No one understands what Musk has in mind. According to him, Twitter is having the highest usage in its history. Daily, CNN, Bloomberg, LinkedIn, etc have something that has to do with Twitter as the major news. Simply, who does not know about Twitter now? I am beginning to think he is creating these “confusions” to cement this product in our minds.
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Over 12 millions votes already, 52% for and 48% against, I went for yes.
If you kick out those who don’t think like you from social media, how do you know what they are thinking, or you think it’s not necessary to be aware of their thought process? It’s dangerous to stop anyone from having an opinion, because opinions can either be true or false, rather your duty should be to counter false opinions.
Everyone in this world has both admirers and haters, so to think that some should be totally barred from speaking is a crazy idea. Keep talking, and when you talk nonsense, the people of the world are there to let you know that you are talking nonsense.
Trump coming back to Twitter is a goal.