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Go to your local town hall and threaten to kill the mayor because you don't like his opinions/work. Try to explain all your neighbors that that was okay, becaus
by Argorak 12y ago
Go to your local town hall and threaten to kill the mayor because you don't like his opinions/work. Try to explain all your neighbors that that was okay, because "Tempers are gonna flare".
This is, by the way, an offense you can end in jail for, for good reasons.
- ginko 12y agoOnly that the open source community is a lot larger than your local town, so it's natural that you will get more extreme cases in the fringes. I'm quite sure the mayor of New York gets death threats on a regular basis.
- vacri 12y agoPeople talk about killing or maiming politicians all the time and don't end up in jail. It's only when the threats are credible that there's a problem (In Poettering's case, having a bitcoin fund for a hitman certainly constitutes this).
- monochr 12y ago>Go to your local town hall and threaten to kill the mayor because you don't like his opinions/work. Have you ever lived in a small town? This is what we call Tuesday evening at the local bar. Until they start buying bullets people threatening to kill you are to murder as people telling threatening to fuck you are to rape.