Most online extremism of any stripe is just a pastime for larpers, but you only need one guy to take exhortations to political violence seriously for something very bad to happen www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
In the video, which has since been removed, Justin Mohn says his father was a federal employee and refers to him as a traitor while voicing right-wing conspiracy theories.
JC....😱
MAGA making America great again one conspiracy and life at a time.
I assume “mental illness” will soon be brought up as an explanation for this.
And when the exhortations to political violence come from people with a great reach, some proportion of their followers taking it seriously is almost inevitable.
BENNY JOHNSON: I’m talking to Trump and my friends VIVEK RAMASWAMY: I’m talking to Trump and our friends DONALD TRUMP: I’m talking to myself INSANE YOUTUBE PATRICIDE: they’re talking to me, personally, and I have to act now
this could’ve been so much worse, and you’re absolutely right.
I'd also like to note, Mr decapitator here didn't get a misleading article headline implying guilt, and the things the media has been talking about as fact up until now are suddenly conspiracy theories
It's what worries me about the Taylor Swift thing. Not just for her and Kelce, but for the safety of her fans.
Dear god that is awful. And separately a reminder of the unfathomable horrors content moderators must endure.
Let’s see, DeSantis vowed he’d “slit the throats” of Federal employees. I wonder.