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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 eth0up »

estearum wrote: post #200
titanomachy wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't matter. Charlie Kirk could have been the greatest saint of our generation, and it would still be unjust to imprison someone for posting a meme saying that they don't care about his death.

It would be unjust to imprison or even have law enforcement knock on the door of a person who was celebrating in the streets that he died! This is completely out of bounds for the United States. But that's the Woke Right for ya.

Woke right. That actually makes sense. Same form of madness.

It will be interesting to see the eventually empowered Left use reflective (identical) tactics to seal the coffin of the Second Amendment. And one could almost pity the... 'woke' Right for not seeing it coming.

I lean right. But I'm getting vertigo.

I think China must have put prions in our Tupperware a long time ago. We're a dead fuckin ringer for hopeless.

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Post by EasyMark »

yibg wrote: post #49

Amazingly even this post is a reflection of the discourse around Kirk. There are replies equating any criticism of Kirk to celebrating his death and glossing over his past nasty behavior. All seems to detached from reality.

Right, I despised what he stood for and his death has no impact on my life in reality. Doesn't mean I wanted him harmed in any fashion, I just didn't like him or his platform. I'm not sure why people are such simpletons that they can't distinguish the difference between that and wishing someone harm, especially on a site like HN where people should in general be aware of nuance and separation of concerns.

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

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Post by EasyMark »

squigz wrote: post #170
vkou wrote: post #39

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Oh, they are real, they aren't just bots, and they've all been emboldened. Go on these people's facebooks, or invite them to Thanksgiving, you'll see the same firehose of shit.

Profiles can be faked too

exactly, clicking on most bluecheck accounts on any politically active post on twitter and you will likely find a bot posting 24/7 about politics, usually as a right wing troll, been quite a while since I spotted a leftist one, but I have seen a few.

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

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Post by somenameforme »

yibg wrote: post #220
somenameforme wrote: post #122

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The bar isn’t someone can interpret it as a threat. Anyone can claim to interpret anything as a threat.

As I said the bar is the person making an intentional threat, which is what's going to make this an interesting case. Most people in this thread have no clue what they're discussing, as is typical in political adjacent threads, because it's very easy to see what he did as a threat.

You have a former police officer (in other words: armed) who was obviously rather unhinged, a political extremist, lived near a Perry High School, and then posts an image that shows Trump saying "We have to get over it." with the subtext being "Donald Trump, on the Perry High School mass shooting, one day after." All under the title, "This seems relevant today..."

That's obviously very easy to interpret as a threat. Imagine some unhinged nearby former police officer or military posted something similar about a school where e.g. your kids happened to go to. My kid's not going to school that day! So the case is going to revolve around whether he intended it to be a threat. He will claim he did not, and assumed people would understand his post had nothing to do with the nearby Perry High School. The prosecution will argue that he knew this would be interpreted as a threat on said high school.

He will likely be convicted.

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

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Post by EasyMark »

onetimeusename wrote: post #189
bonsai_spool wrote: post #99

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> There is a little bit more context here in a different article where the sheriff explains how the posts were interpreted as a threat > https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2025/09/23/tennessee-l... There isn’t anything there that wasn’t in the original article.

The Reason article said there was no reason to interpret this as a threat and that it was entirely just political. The article made it seem like the memes were held completely out of context. It mentioned there happens to be a nearby Perry High School just by chance but the nearby Perry High School is the central reason why this was interpreted as a threat. This was posted in a group that was organizing an event at t…

As someone who grew up in a small town with a not so moral local law enforcement, I almost guarantee this sheriff has a political agenda against someone who dared post a meme about their favorite podcaster who was just assassinated.

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

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Post by EasyMark »

whearyou wrote: post #160

If/when this gets tossed - does the have grounds to sue (and who would he be suing) on wrongful arrest, or something else?

probably not unless it's against people sending him death threats and he can actually manage to track them down

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

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Post by kahirsch »

onetimeusename wrote: post #189
bonsai_spool wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There is a little bit more context here in a different article where the sheriff explains how the posts were interpreted as a threat > https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2025/09/23/tennessee-l... There isn’t anything there that wasn’t in the original article.

The Reason article said there was no reason to interpret this as a threat and that it was entirely just political. The article made it seem like the memes were held completely out of context. It mentioned there happens to be a nearby Perry High School just by chance but the nearby Perry High School is the central reason why this was interpreted as a threat. This was posted in a group that was organizing an event at t…

That is in the Reason article.

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

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Post by thiht »

yibg wrote: post #58
Aloisius wrote: post #22

The comments on this article are horrifying. It's clear people have lost their damn minds.

Funny thing is, I’m not 100% sure which “side” you are referring to…

You should, it’s pretty clear MAGA are completely out of their minds… if you’re equating anything that happens in your country to whatever happened under Biden or Obama before that, you’re delusional. The government is speed running fascism, and the apathy of the opposition should be terrifying.
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