politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
Ehh, it makes sense. This is thunderous news, and whitehouse admins are always leaky sieves. You can't share this beforehand at all except to likely a literal handful of people.
When its time for it to go public, you post it on what is sadly still the biggest network possible, so it hits all the airwaves at once. Once its posted, it becomes "the one and only" statement. They arent going to summarize it in an email that would clearly leak. They maybe could have copy/pasted, but I dont see this as a big deal.
I don't think anyone should be using "X" at this point. I sure as fuck am not going on some fascist oligarch network to receive communications from my boss or elected officials. They need to find something else.
I don't get it, either. The White House has a website, which is certainly a place they could announce it. Further, there's nothing stopping the government from hosting their own Mastodon instance, specifically for communications like that. Using X seems like an endorsement of the platform, and the person currently calling the shots.
Right, if they just published it on their own website, it would be all over the internet very quickly. I agree that government agencies should just run a Mastodon instance too. They don't need the reach of TwitX for anything. It's a dying, for profit platform run by a total scumbag who is currently trying to put his thumb on the scales for Republicans, why would the Biden admin use it for official announcements? Let someone else post it on 'X'.
While I agree it makes some sense to not warn the team ahead of time, pointing employees to twitter for an announcement like this is absurd. Like, how hard would it be to attach the same document to the very same email they sent out telling them to go to twitter?
Harder than linking, and possible that some other data is leaked in the documents, like metadata or some such. Any of that data would be leaked to the press.
I dont consider it difficult to copy/paste text into an email, so the singular link to twitter to is distasteful to me. No one on lemmy is going to like it because we all have strong opinions on consolidated social media, or else we wouldn't be here.
These are Whitehouse staffers though. They have Twitter accounts because they have to. It's a bit weird, but whatever. It got done.