• saxysammyp@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly this blood is on the hands of places like Fox News and OAN. They cater to and mermen’s mental illness until it manifests like this. And they know it. Fox News was making fun of its viewers off camera. The way that the skillfully manipulate the minds of the vulnerable is nothing short of intentional. If a therapist were to do this they would see jail time for sure. But when the media does it, we all just shrug.

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    1 year ago

    While I don’t celebrate the man’s death, I am thankful that the FBI acted to stop him before he hurt anyone else.

    I fully believe in free speech and open political discourse, but deadly threats of violence need to be taken seriously and acted upon quickly.

    If you threaten to kill someone, you’re denying their right to free speech. There’s no free speech when you’re dead. It’s my belief that a person should not be protected under the same rights that they deny to others.

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      No, a PATRIOT who was MURDERED by the GOVERNMENT. I’m going to EMPHASIZE words by CAPITALIZING them and occasionally bolding them like a fifth grade POWERPOINT presentation, because my AUDIENCE has the attention span of a GUPPY suffering from COCAINE WITHDRAWAL. SAD

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    Anyone dumb enough to post about that kind of thing on Facebook… I don’t even have words. That would have been dumb in 2003, let alone 2023!

    Also, I am enjoying the mental picture of how fast this guy’s MAGA friends reached for the FBI hotline when they saw his posts.

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    There had to be a way to resolve this without someone dying, not that the FBI gives a damn, of course.