• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    They’ve really normalized this shit to the point they don’t understand why it’s wrong…

    It’s just like 1/6, there’s a few that are serious and dangerous, and they’re hiding among a large group of fucking idiots and using them as human shields.

    Normalizing violence is something fascists always do before the actual violence, they’re getting people desensitized to the idea of it.

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      they’ve never understood it to BE wrong, much less why. all they know is the fear mongering rhetoric of “they’re coming to take your guns, turn your kids gay, and forcibly terminate your pregnancies” along with the whole “you’re not a real man if you’re not violent” ideal, since the GOP stance can’t win on policy

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      My dad was recently telling me a story from back in the 90s when he worked in a rural Wisconsin town close to the Illinois border and his co-workers would “joke” about shooting at cars with Illinois license plates. It’s crazy to me just how long the right has had a culture of sharing fantasies about being violent towards the left. It’s no wonder that the vast majority of mass shooters turn out to be far right nut jobs, they’ve been raised in a culture that glorifies violence against people they disagree with.

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    3 months ago

    Imagine the level of training to attain such a perspective:

    Hoist with his own Google review:

    Ouch, the stupid:

    approximately 4,359 posts/replies

    Give or take

    Good job FBI, who knows whether he was serious but there’s a reason there’s an exact statute for this and he actually had weapons - not a good look buddy.

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      I feel like after one threat like this you shouldn’t legally be allowed to own weapons.

      If found with an illegal weapon after these statements should be recited in front of a judge/jury during trial so they know why the person shouldn’t be allowed to have it. These kinds of threats are not things that normal, rational people make.

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      3 months ago

      Lucky that the investigator had that tech training or the suspect could have slipped away

    • dan@upvote.au
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      3 months ago

      Imagine the level of training to attain such a perspective

      Keep in mind that there’s a lot of dumb people in the world, which is why lawsuits spell out everything, even if some details sound obvious to us.

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        Oh, indeed, I appreciate the verbosity. You have to admit, seeing that particular phenomenon spelled out is pretty fun!

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      I’d have to read the source, but what was the original action that prompted the FBI to ask for all these records? Just looking at this GETTR garbo site, it looks like profiles more/less could be public (as in i can look at accounts without an account), but they also say there they looked at his google map account.

      This does feel a little 1st amendment breaking to me though. Maybe they considered the 4k comments so spammy it constituted an attempt to manipulate the forum? I can see the argument in the content, but what argument do they even have to consider it noteworthy. I suppose this is why most websites just ban toxic content like me, so they don’t have the feds on their door. Jesus.

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        Quick 11-page read here if you wanna try to answer your own question so you can check if I’m off base:

        1. Write law you can’t threaten [vice] president
        screenshot

        1. Find threats against VP
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        1. Ask host for records, examine records, ask host (Google) of connected account for records

        2. Jail

        1A is sacrosanct but the moron went too far.

        Jokes (one & two) are dandy though :) Two is funnier while one is more extreme.

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          I wasn’t trying to JAQ off or anything, I’m just terminally toxic.

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            IDK who downvoted ya, and wish I’d rephrased:

            if you wanna try to answer your own question

            Cuz I meant that with, say, a collaborative exploration kinda vibe but it reads more like a dig or something.

            :)

            Edit: peep that second video! ITYSL is a masterpiece

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    Imagine living in a country, proclaiming yourself as rabidly patriotic, and not even knowing some of its most basic laws.

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    This is why you only threaten politicians that are already dead.

    For example, pissing on Ronald Reagan’s grave, the deceased shitty actor just to be clear, is still on my bucket list.

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    At least this guy will no longer have access to guns after this.

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      3 months ago

      As long as he: a) doesn’t get a trump judge and b) trump doesn’t get in office.

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    Anyone know if the Secret Service would show up if you threaten to boop someone right on the snoot?

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      For sure, these are not the best and brightest.

      “[F]or a comment. This is ridiculous, for a comment,”

      Yeah buddy. Not all comments are threats, and not all threats are comments, but your comments were both. If you need that explained, it’s no wonder you are voting Trump.

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    3 months ago

    “Frank Lucio Carillo” I hope now that his name is out there that he doesn’t get the same treatment that he gives to others.

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    I remember how worked up I could get when I was a child in the internet.

    I used to write very poor emails absolutely livid whenever a videogame journalist would write a piece about how Nintendo should give up making consoles and just focus on games.