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“Unquestionably” you’ve got to at least give an example. How did lives hang in the balance? I’m not saying the likelihood is 0, it’s best not to be irresponsible like this obviously, but come on, it’s not even 0.5.


> but come on

i will not. affected persons included biden, kanye, obama, musk, bezos, gates and others. this is an audience in the 100's of millions (if not over a billion, i didnt count). do you honestly think theres no possible tweet that directly leads to someone's death, and likely many deaths?

im not sure an outright war is > 50% possible, but i am sure it is > 0.0%


A war from hacked Tweets? What would these tweets say? “Premier Xi’s wife is ugly?” I mean Trump already tweets totally insane things regularly. “Rocket man” etc. what could joe Biden, bill gates or anyone possibly say on Twitter to start a war or even lead to some such mass death incident. Even “irresponsible” state actors like Iran would use intelligence channels to confirm things. Even the taliban doesn’t actually act irrationally. Maybe we need to agree to disagree here?




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