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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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Normal people don't post 'memes' with images of dying people in them. If you don't understand this imagine a 'meme' that showed that terrifying image of the dying Iryna Zarutska in it, murderer right behind her, and posted some edgelord caption below it. You only do this sort of stuff if you're completely screwed in the head, generally caused by political extremism.
You seem to be avoiding the question. Here's another: what meme did he post with a picture of a dying person in? I didn't see that in the reporting.
Click on the section in the article that links to his 'memes'. I'm not going to directly link to it because I find it disgusting. There are 3 provided in the link including one with an image of Charlie Kirk just after he had been shot in the neck and an edgelord comment surrounding it.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
And that's why there should be serious consequences for everyone involved in this prosecution and prosecutions like it. If the case is as described here, there should be jail time involved for kidnapping and false imprisonment. But any justice system always protects their own.
> why there should be serious consequences for everyone involved Do we have names of the arresting officers, prosecutors and judge this is in front of? With that we can determine who above them is elected.
The people who vote for those positions in Tennessee like this sort of bullshit.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
OK. Your call to dehumanization is evil.
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Please quit it with these one-dimensional ideologically-charged utterances. Your account has been becoming predictable and tiresome in its content and style, and this is not what HN is for, and destroys what it is for. The purpose and ethos of HN is for curious conversation. We're here to learn and educate, not club each other over the head incessantly with blunt ideological instruments. You've been here for a long time. We presume you started participating here because you appreciate and value what it aspires to be. We don't want to ban you, but we need you to have a think about how you can make a more positive contribution to HN, more consistent with the spirit of its purpose.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
As they say, you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.
> but you can't beat the ride You sure as hell can get paid for it afterwards.
Hardly. 1983 claims have been cut to ribbons by the courts. Suing the individual officials for violating your rights is basically impossible because of extremely broad qualified immunity for the cops and even stronger prosecutorial immunity for the DAs. Suing the state office is also extremely difficult since you have to show a ridiculous pattern of violations rather than just that your rights were violated in this case.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you have a lot of faith in democratic processes at this point, despite widespread evidence such as this very article that they are being clearly undermined.
> you have a lot of faith in democratic processes at this point I think civic laziness and nihilism, particularly in Silicon Valley, did a lot to get us to where we are.
Yes, if people actually had faith in democratic processes, they would have standards for the people they elect, and be involved in civics and actvism. Corruption is endemic precisely because people don't care.
Or more accurately, because the only people who do care are the people who benefit from corruption.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Do you want to post an example? Kirk would defend students being harassed for unrelated political matters - eg the most recent case on his channel was an Agriculture major who had to take some kind of 'equity in agriculture' class and was being bothered by her professor for not being left leaning.
A friend of mine was targeted by TPUSA. Members in good standing did things like
* take their class, deliberately do a bad job, and then try to get them fired for bias against conservatives
* take their class and write hate speech in coursework to harass my friend, then withdrawing to avoid the F
At the same time my friend started receiving emails with death threats, hate speech, gore, and hardcore porn from anonymous email addresses. I cannot prove it, but I would be stunned if this was not from the same people.
Kirk and TPUSA knew what happened to targeted faculty.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
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> Wouldn’t matter. Those elected would likely be re elected This is just rationalising laziness and nihilism. They may get re-elected. That doesn't mean you can't create a lot of chaos and cost for them along the way. Like, I wish my adversaries would preëmptively conclude that even attempting to oppose me is not worth it. > This is the will of the people You're concluding this how?
You are 100% correct. Just recently a single website that linked some e-mail addresses destroyed the EU Plans for chat control. Apathy and Cynicism would've led it happen but just the act of making one website and posting it at the right places, something everyone here could easily do, changed the course of law dramatically. That small victory really made me reconsider.
What website is this?
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#299Earlier quoted context omitted.
i live in a town full of Republicans. Some are more soft spoken than others, but to claim that any of them are not MAGA (which would mean they actually did not vote for Trump) is simply ridiculous. the "non-MAGA republican" is basically a few hundred famous podcast hosts who were ejected from the power they had under the Bush regime. That's pretty much it.
> but to claim that any of them are not MAGA > (which would mean they actually did not vote for Trump) There is a difference between these two things, no? I've talked to people who voted for Trump subsequently regretted it after they saw what he is actually doing. Low. Information. Voters. Our goal should be to leverage this difference. It's self-defeating to simply assume everyone that voted for Trump in 2024 contin…
> It's self-defeating to simply assume everyone that voted for Trump in 2024 continues to support cozying up to middle eastern autocrats, covering up the Epstein case, bully pulpit led cryptocurrency fraud, middle of the night raids on entire apartment buildings, deploying National Guards to occupy American cities and attack protestors, deliberately inhumane treatment of deportees while mostly letting businesses continue on as usual, etc.
Is there any evidence that there is any significant group of people who voted for Trump but are opposed to any of those things?
Because the evidence I've seen suggests that each of those things increased support for Trump anong his base, and the only open question is "By how much?"
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but to claim that any of them are not MAGA > (which would mean they actually did not vote for Trump) There is a difference between these two things, no? I've talked to people who voted for Trump subsequently regretted it after they saw what he is actually doing. Low. Information. Voters. Our goal should be to leverage this difference. It's self-defeating to simply assume everyone that voted for Trump in 2024 contin…
> It's self-defeating to simply assume everyone that voted for Trump in 2024 continues to support cozying up to middle eastern autocrats, covering up the Epstein case, bully pulpit led cryptocurrency fraud, middle of the night raids on entire apartment buildings, deploying National Guards to occupy American cities and attack protestors, deliberately inhumane treatment of deportees while mostly letting businesses cont…
Did you miss my sentence right before that?
> I've talked to people who voted for Trump subsequently regretted it after they saw what he is actually doing.
Don't focus on his "base". They're demented slobs like him, or foreign AI-bots boosting destructive messages to harm our country.
Focus on the people who were misled into thinking the grass would be greener on the other side, as they were frustrated with the status quo and believed Trump's word salad implied some actual reform.