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They probably run a majority of those alts, trying to entrap people. Talking to other FBI unwittingly lol...

• 082349872349872 3y ago
  It's not exactly entrapment when they wait for you to actually press the button on the fake bomb you ordered. (compare Winston Smith when O'Brien asks him whom he would kill)
  • wakawaka28 3y ago
    It is entrapment if they gave the dude ordering the fake bomb the idea and opportunity to buy a fake bomb lol. The FBI is notorious for finding vulnerable people and pressuring them into trying something. If anyone else did the exact same things to trick people, they'd be arrested.
    • Terr_ 3y ago
      > It is entrapment if they gave the dude ordering the fake bomb the idea No, that's not how it works. Merely "giving the dude the idea" is never entrapment, because the average "any reasonable person" would not hear that kind suggestion and actually follow it.
      • wakawaka28 3y ago
        Nevertheless, these people probably wouldn't think of these crimes, much less have any practical way to execute them, if not for the "suggestions" from their "friends" who are really FBI.
        • 082349872349872 3y ago
          Not according to the PACER documents I've read; maybe it works on the ground like that but in the sworn testimony it doesn't.
  • mc32 3y ago
    They like to call it nudging. If you or I did it it would be causing and abetting. I understand the attractiveness of this tactic. It’s easy to get people to do things when you can fabricate a grievance for them — you can even get middle class college kids to rise up in support of terrorists. But this should be illegal and instead those people should be be forced to get psychological treatment rather than be entrapped.