Tulipanzo said:
thismeintiel said:
Seems like they are using what has worked so well for the Left, now.
And he didn't delete them til recently. Must have not upset him too much.
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I'm trying to think of "the Left" (like that's any help in narrowing it down) digging up decade old tweets to discredit someone.
If I try and remember situations where people were fired, I think of tweets they made and behaviour they held, and never apologized for, at the moment of firing.
e.g. People were angry at Roseanne for pushing conspiracy theories, shitty behaviour -> Disney hired her -> she made an openly racist tweet -> she got fired and had to apologize --> "I thought the BITCH was white!!"
Here it's:
People were angry at James Gunn for pedo jokes -> He apologized and STOPPED -> Disney hired him -> He made two movies for them -> He was outspoken about not liking Trump -> People angry at him for the previous points dug the tweets -> He apologized again -> Disney fired him
Really these situations are always thorny. With companies PR involved the discussion always follow some internal decisions we aren't, and probably never will, be privy to.
Some people's concerns are indeed legitimate and worth taking into considerations, but you're also talking with companies whose main concern is PR, which often lacks nuance.
However looking at this it is foolish to suggest that anyone was concerned.
It is quite obviously pushed by people trying to silence him because of his politics, not his tweets; you didn't even try to counter me on that because you can't.
"They did it first" is an excuse that would get thrown out of any respectable kindergarten, but it's the best you can come up with.
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You're joking right? The Left has never done anything like this, that you can remember? They tried to discredit Romney constantly with things that may or may not have happened more than 20 years ago, some of it even happening from when he was in high school. Of course, every time they found something, it turned out Obama had done something as bad, or worse, so had to drop it and move on to something else. And the whole out of control #metoo movement ring a bell? What started as a good cause was taken by the Left and careened out of control, with people bringing up the smallest offenses from years/decades ago, just to try to either push the blame off of them for not speaking up about it before or to get their 15 mins of fame with the movement.
The problem with them is they just love to dish it, but the second the Right does the same to them, they cry like little babies about how unfair people are being. Ironically, many of the people who are being targeted for things that happened 5-10 years prior, but make excuses or say they have changed, are the exact same ones who are trying to go after Trump for something that supposedly happened once 12 years ago. Or worse, tried to attack Romney with things that happened 20+ years ago. Karma is a bitch.
Personally, I'd love it if everyone just chilled the Hell out, but I know in this heightened political climate they won't. So, since it's going to continue, I'm just glad those on the Right are done just taking that crap silently. As I said in another post, Gunn wanted to live by the Twitter sword, happy that some were fired for what they had said, so he died by the Twitter sword.
Wyrdness said:
Apparently it's claimed the were around 10000 (yes 10k) of these tweets.
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Yea, that's how many he deleted. He actually got caught doing it because instead of putting the dates he was searching for in the search box, he accidentally wrote them as an actual post. He was panicking. And considering he just mass deleted that many, there must have been many that pertained to pedophilia and rape.
