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If I recall from reading the original, it was just someone who showed up and (I think sincerely helpfully) told him that if he wants retribution against the pol

If I recall from reading the original, it was just someone who showed up and (I think sincerely helpfully) told him that if he wants retribution against the police, any lawyer would tell him to stop discussing the specifics of the case on social media.

kragen 11y ago
I went back and looked earlier today, and that is what I found, also, except that I didn't find him talking about lawyers and did find him advising Ian to "lay low" (presumably so the police wouldn't seek retribution against Ian.) I didn't find anything from that other guy that was anything other than sincerely trying to be helpful. (Of course, there could have been deleted tweets.)
- huac 11y ago
  i looked at their thread ~12h after; @jackstormwriter deleted the thread and tweeted something along the lines of 'never do this, but deleting tweets, blah blah'
  - skeetersneedum 11y ago
    This guy caught the exchange: https://twitter.com/dknake/status/682346660626886656 https://twitter.com/dknake/status/682346660626886656
    - hitekker 11y ago
      As evinced by words like 'jailhouse virgin', jackstormwriter was enjoying Ian's suffering. I don't see how he was being "helpful" or providing advice.
      - cjbprime 11y ago
        You're right, I'd missed that part the first time.
      - kragen 11y ago
        You're right, and I had seen that tweet, I had forgotten it, and I agree that it was cruel. The actual advice was in other tweets.
        hitekker 11y ago
        Thank you for bringing up why it's important to bring to light as much information as circumstances will allow, and is fair to all parties involved. In this huge mess of things, I would probably have forgotten one particular tweet too. On a side note: it's really nice to see someone who has the empathy to recognize cruelty as cruelty here. It's quite hard for a good chunk of folks, myself included, to care about "meanness" when that "meanness" doesn't directly affect us.

kragen 11y ago

I went back and looked earlier today, and that is what I found, also, except that I didn't find him talking about lawyers and did find him advising Ian to "lay low" (presumably so the police wouldn't seek retribution against Ian.) I didn't find anything from that other guy that was anything other than sincerely trying to be helpful. (Of course, there could have been deleted tweets.)

huac 11y ago
i looked at their thread ~12h after; @jackstormwriter deleted the thread and tweeted something along the lines of 'never do this, but deleting tweets, blah blah'
- skeetersneedum 11y ago
  This guy caught the exchange: https://twitter.com/dknake/status/682346660626886656 https://twitter.com/dknake/status/682346660626886656
  - hitekker 11y ago
    As evinced by words like 'jailhouse virgin', jackstormwriter was enjoying Ian's suffering. I don't see how he was being "helpful" or providing advice.
    - cjbprime 11y ago
      You're right, I'd missed that part the first time.
    - kragen 11y ago
      You're right, and I had seen that tweet, I had forgotten it, and I agree that it was cruel. The actual advice was in other tweets.
      - hitekker 11y ago
        Thank you for bringing up why it's important to bring to light as much information as circumstances will allow, and is fair to all parties involved. In this huge mess of things, I would probably have forgotten one particular tweet too. On a side note: it's really nice to see someone who has the empathy to recognize cruelty as cruelty here. It's quite hard for a good chunk of folks, myself included, to care about "meanness" when that "meanness" doesn't directly affect us.