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Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by JoshTriplett »

metwo1234 wrote: post #6
hyperhello wrote: post #3

> Bushart did not elaborate, but the context seems clear: Why should I care about this shooting, when the sitting president said I should "get over" this other shooting? From one perspective, this is clearly bad governance. He's using his free speech rights that generations of us died for, to point out hypocrisy. I'm going to say it, and we'll see if I get arrested for it. Charlie Kirk was one of the useful idiots gr…

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1) Nobody should ever die for what they say.

2) Nobody should ever get arrested for saying it was good that someone died, or that they're not sad about it, or that the world is better off without them, or that they were a hateful person, or any number of other things someone might say.

Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by vkou »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #9
vkou wrote: post #4

The excuse for why he was arrested (some school in the area shares the same name as the one that Trump was downplaying a shooting at) is, of course utter bullshit. Its amazing how far people are willing to bend over backwards to explain how the speech of these public figures is harmless and non-threatening and none of us have anything to worry about (despite their actions putting the lie to it), but apply an entirely…

What school shooting did he die in?

He was at a school, he got shot by a man who got a gun and took it to a school with intent to kill.

This happens every day to other people, and the advice of him and his political allies has always been to get over it and to stop politicizing it. It would be great if they could collectively take it and stop politicizing it.

Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by [deleted] »

nailer wrote: post #7

The Kirk assassination was awful, as well as the plainly false things said about his life by some parts of the media. But nobody is obligated to have a particular political opinion and Kirk himself would have pointed out that civil disagreement is this man's right as an American.

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Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by whatshisface »

I think this is an example of using slow trials as a nonjudicial weapon. The defendant did not break the law and isn't likely to be convicted (at least not on appeal), but they can hold him in jail for months because they got mad at his Facebook post.

Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by e40 »

metwo1234 wrote: post #6
hyperhello wrote: post #3

> Bushart did not elaborate, but the context seems clear: Why should I care about this shooting, when the sitting president said I should "get over" this other shooting? From one perspective, this is clearly bad governance. He's using his free speech rights that generations of us died for, to point out hypocrisy. I'm going to say it, and we'll see if I get arrested for it. Charlie Kirk was one of the useful idiots gr…

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How this question came from you reading that comment is beyond me.

Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

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Post by watwut »

nailer wrote: post #7

The Kirk assassination was awful, as well as the plainly false things said about his life by some parts of the media. But nobody is obligated to have a particular political opinion and Kirk himself would have pointed out that civil disagreement is this man's right as an American.

Kirks career literally started with organised harasment of what they perceived as leftists professors. Kirk himself was pretty atrocious verbally to people he looked down at. And he wink wink condoned violence against husband of democrat.

His murder was wrong. It is not true that he would be some kind of universal "civil disagreement" advocate.

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Post by tuckwat »

postflopclarity wrote: post #14
tuckwat wrote: post #10

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why, confronted with reality?

uh, bc /r/politics is all about politics and this post is all about politics.

Edit - I'm fine with the article, it's abhorrent and relevant. My tongue in cheek comment was about the comments. These comments give me the same feeling of Reddit - angry people arguing over whether someones death was justified or not.

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Post by rayiner »

hyperhello wrote: post #3

> Bushart did not elaborate, but the context seems clear: Why should I care about this shooting, when the sitting president said I should "get over" this other shooting? From one perspective, this is clearly bad governance. He's using his free speech rights that generations of us died for, to point out hypocrisy. I'm going to say it, and we'll see if I get arrested for it. Charlie Kirk was one of the useful idiots gr…

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