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In this tweet he says "death to American politicians": https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1093791374204420097 https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/109379
by Drunk_Engineer 6y ago
In this tweet he says "death to American politicians":
https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1093791374204420097 https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1093791374204420097
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- taurath 6y agoHe can say march on the Capitol all he wants. If a mob shows up then you can bet your ass he’ll be off the platform.
- uoaei 6y agoIt's not so much about the words as the material consequences of those words.
- curryst 6y agoThat's a bad line to draw. "We're helpless to do anything until someone dies" isn't likely to draw a lot of sympathy.
- jmull 6y agoThat seems like a great place to draw the line to me.
- bbeesley 6y agoIsn’t that the way laws work? You can’t prosecute someone until they’ve committed a crime. The issue here is whether the “crime” is tweeting stuff that starts an insurrection, or tweeting stuff that could be interpreted as potentially starting an insurrection. Me telling someone to go fuck themselves probably isn’t a problem, but me telling someone with learning difficulties to go fuck themselves and them feeling compelled to do it and hurting themselves probably is a problem.
- leetcrew 6y ago> You can’t prosecute someone until they’ve committed a crime. technically yes, but attempting a crime is often considered a crime itself.
- Udik 6y agoOh well, there's hundreds of tweets by US politicians threatening violence against other nations (Iran or N.Korea or Syria). That's what nations do, right?