The social media company owned by former President Donald Trump in March tipped off the FBI about threats made by a Utah man who was fatally shot Wednesday by FBI agents as they attempted to arrest him for threatening to kill President Joe Biden, NBC News reported.

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[–] 112 points 3 years ago (5 children)

It’s like a honeypot for dumb extremists! It’s the same with that rentAHitman website, they get like 20 requests a month!

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Wait, is that real? A literal "RentAHitman" website?

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  • [–] 51 points 3 years ago (19 children)

    Surprising. Those people fantasize about murdering liberals.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Naw man loads of domestic terrorists on the right. Some on the left but not as many. Try again.

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    ...That's basically what I'm saying? Read my comment again, I was responding to a guy who said something along the lines of liberals being the ones to actually follow through with their threats. Anyways, they seem to have deleted their comment which makes my comment show up in a different part of the thread, which seems to be an issue with Lemmy.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    Gonna need a couple sources chief

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    The articles you link not only don't make your case, but seem to oppose it.

    The Congressional shooter was protesting taxes and fired at his local congressman.

    Your other link details a bunch of cops responding with deadly force to protesters.

    Which part of this is supposed to show that liberals are violent or approve of violence? Not a huge fan of liberals myself, but they aren't out there conspiring to kidnap governors or making pipe bombs to threaten Congress. Liberals aren't stockpiling guns and sending threatening letters and manifestos to politicians.

    Right wing nationalists are doing those things and they are getting off too lightly if they are even punished at all so the problem is getting worse, not better.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I don't even bother with those people anymore. If they don't want to learn then they can't be taught.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Liberals aren't stockpiling guns

    Some of them are...

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    How about that time all those liberals were told by the liberal president who just lost an election to march to the Capitol and "fight like hell?" That was totally a liberal thing that liberals did.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Hah! Bet that'll go over a treat with that crowd.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    don't worry, it's fake news and the god emperor's true platform would never betray them.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    Something tells me they’re all too stupid to note the irony in this.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    Looks like some poor scapegoat will be fired soon.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Being a snitch is on brand for Trump.

    Gun culture in America is so ironic. People buy these weapons for protection and to feel powerful, but having them makes you a target for violent crime; justifies deadly force by the State; and makes you a threat to yourself. This guy posts photos of his wall-o-guns and ghillie suit to look like a badass threat, and it sure did. To the feds!

    In the civilized countries of the world. A 74 yo man can be rolled into custody by a pair of officers with a can of mace between them. In America, they have to go in like it's the rebel camp in Predator(1987).

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The article ends with this? Is it a hint at twitter employees to do like what that truth social employee did here, especially next year?

    Twitter, now known as X, made the decision because it feared Trump might incite further violence on the heels of the Capitol riot by a mob of his supporters two days earlier.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    lol it's the AshleyMadison.com of violent right wing traitors.

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