When you make universal rules and then carve out narrow exceptions for particular enemies, it completely kills any credibility that you’re adhering to principle

When you make universal rules and then carve out narrow exceptions for particular enemies, it completely kills any credibility that you’re adhering to principles. You can be up front with your intentions and say “you may wish death upon state enemies but never upon our own leaders or allies” or you can get brownie points for saying “we don’t condone violent posts at all” then renege on that when it’s convenient. It will be difficult to walk this one back. The next time they’re in Congressional hearings saying “we take a strong stand against violent and hateful content”, you know that you can safely disregard that.