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The FBI was highlighting obvious parody accounts and accounts with double digit followers for the “crime” of the tired old joke of “(other party) votes on Wedne

• PartiallyTyped 4y ago
  The whole parody thing a-la Carl Tuckerson "nobody seriously believes this" while manufacturing outrage that many people believe in and results in stochastic terrorism needs to stop. How many massacres[1] are necessary before people take things like that a bit more seriously? Is it until somebody they know gets murdered? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_right-wing_terrorist_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_right-wing_terrorist_a...
  • VanTheBrand 4y ago
    I mean the parody account being referenced here (@madandpissedoff) was one that pretended to be the WWE wrestler undertaker and almost exclusively tweeted denials about shitting his own pants at the mall. I’m not sure it was really leading toward a massacre (unless you count what happened to that mall bathroom stall.)
    • PartiallyTyped 4y ago
      Using one datapoint to extrapolate to the broader case is really not a good approach to supporting an argument. Commenter said “parody accounts”, what specifically that refers to is ambiguous, so I considered the class of accounts that may be considered parody by some.