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[-] Yuvneas@kbin.social 86 points 1 year ago

Its crazy how much leeway he is getting. Back during the Bush years a guy in my town had a hang bush sign on a cardboard cutout of him hanging from a tree. The dude was arrested and held for "terrorist threats." The same was not true of similar threats made toward Obama. This was in liberal western Washington. The fascists have always gotten handled with kid gloves in this country and it seriously needs to be addressed if we have any hope of coming out the other side.

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Not that I Don't agree with you and this orange fuck just should not be allowed to be on any form of media or government, Kathy Griffin did some tasteless stuff on Twitter about beheading Trump and wasn't arrested. It was tasteless but literally everything trump does is classless and tasteless.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago

Do you have a source for this? I’m not saying you’re lying, that’s just pretty flagrant 1A abuse and I’m curious to read more

[-] Yuvneas@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I don't, it was back in like 2002-3 and the local paper doesn't have their archives up anymore. He ended up having the charges dropped, but months later.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

I remember hearing warnings about things like this in the early 2000s,but I never witnessed anything. Post 2001 was a strange time.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So @BolexForSoup was correct in their assumption? 1A abuse?

OTOH, I would think that sort of speech is covered by laws threatening government officials?

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