Angry Tweets Threaten Gov Walker's Life, Family

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From here, some choice words from angry right wingers. (I assume they are right wingers, because I remember earlier threads in which posters solemnly assured the Boards that this kind of violent imagery is a tool of the right wing’s murderous impulses, not the gentle hippies of the left).

If I ever see anybody of the Walker family on the street, ima pop they ass.—
Ya Girl Tae (@TaeesWorld) June 06, 2012
AND If Scott Walker Got A Wife Imma Fuck Her Face—
Tj Fucked Yo Bitch (@iWusGetnSumHead) June 06, 2012

NBS I Know What School Scott Walker Son Go To—
Tj Fucked Yo Bitch (@iWusGetnSumHead) June 06, 2012

YOU BITCH ! Im Finna Assassinate Scott Walker Punk Ass ! Why The Fuck He Win Somebody SHOOT HIS ASS ! -___-—
July 4th 2014 . (@SKSunnyy) June 06, 2012

I wanna shoot scott walker in the leg or something.—
Breeeeeeeezzzzyyy (@__HoopAHOLIC) June 06, 2012

Soo, who gone shoot Scott Walker!?—
June 28th (: (@ColeyColeee_) June 06, 2012

Junee7th :heart:@Deshay_Nicolee
“@xOForever_Valid Somebody Should Shoot Scott Walker #NOLie! ^.^”
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Yvonne’(:@BallinnSince_96
Somebody gone kill Scott Walker man.
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@DONTTouchTheFRO
They gone JFK Scott Walker. Shoot his mfn head off BANG BANG!!! chief keef voice —
ERIN M. (@DONTTouchTheFRO) June 06, 2012
5 Jun 12
@SupaMcNASTY
Ima fuck Scott walker up. I been wanting to for the longest anyways lowkey.—
Marques.Scoot. (@__SupaMcNASTY__) June 06, 2012 5 Jun 12 @__SupaMcNASTY__ Ima be right back! I'm finna go kill #ScottWalker bitch ass dawg. Nbs!— Marques.Scoot. (@SupaMcNASTY) June 06, 2012
5 Jun 12
Ocean Gang Goon@SeXXX_Symbol_
Somebody need to Abe Lincoln Scott Walker cave frog lookin ass.
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EEE@EEElverhoy
??? RT @xDIMPLES_: Somebody go kill scott walker or shoot his punk ass I wish I could watch when it happen lol he got me being evil x shit
5 Jun 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite
@DomoSoloDolo
I wanna kill scott walker so fucking baddd!!! & the racist dumb assholes that voted for him #nbs—
FatBitchess&GoodWeed (@DomoSoloDolo) June 06, 2012
5 Jun 12
@Prototypeisgame
Please somebody kill Scott Walker.—
(@Prototypeisgame) June 06, 2012
5 Jun 12
@All_Onaa_Hoeee
Umm imma Start A Damn Kill Scott Walker Committee ! Who w. Me ?—
Nakeshaa BITCH $$$ (@All_Onaa_Hoeee) June 06, 2012
5 Jun 12
@realwesleywess
Someone from the NRA should shoot Scott Walker in the head, GTA-style.—
Wesley Lam (@realwesleywess) June 06, 2012
6 Jun 12
@caleb_white
I might just have to kill scott walker n take that charge—
AHH FACK IM BASED! (@caleb_white) June 06, 2012
5 Jun 12
@caleb_white
Scott walker will die within the next week ive already payed for the hit—
AHH FACK IM BASED! (@caleb_white) June 06, 2012
6 Jun 12
@xDIMPLES_
Somebody go kill scott walker or shoot his punk ass I wish I could watch when it happen lol he got me being evil x shit but FUCKKKKK HIM NBS—
CAUTION im CUFFED (@xDIMPLES_) June 06, 2012
5 Jun 12
@BrothMan_BEEF
If you kill Scott Walker I will give you a big kissu—
Denver Hoxha (@BrothMan_BEEF) June 06, 2012
5 Jun 12
@ILoveLexiss
I’m not saying somebody should kill Scott Walker but uhhh Maybe somebody should Lincoln his ass jus saying—
LexXxie♥ (@ILoveLexiss) June 06, 2012
5 Jun 12
morgan y evans@morganyevans
Scott Walker needs to die
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Chelsea@chelseagirl
Before I die, I’d like to kick Scott Walker in the balls @theburiedlife
5 Jun 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite
@_SpikesxSpandex
Oh Yeah, Somebody Gone Shoot Scott Walker White Ass.—
6|Fourtheen|12( : (@_SpikesxSpandex) June 06, 2012
5 Jun 12
@JoshhyCashh
Scott Walker Must Die—
Josh James (¬_¬) (@JoshhyCashh) June 06, 2012
5 Jun 12
Karlä :heart:@MexicanLust69
Scott walker needs fall down the capital stairs & die…
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Well, that fifth guy only wants to shoot him in the leg. That seems pretty reasonable, to me.

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What can we deduce from the fact that not every one of those tweets you listed threatens Scott Walker’s life (or threatens his family)?

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Some of those are wishing death. That’s not so bad.

I wish death on a lot of people.

I’m doing it right now.
What Bricker doesn’t understand, (among other things, like economics, religion and basic logic) is that the difference between the right and the left, is no one with power in the left is approving of this.

So you found 20 shitty tweets. Big fucking deal.

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Pretty obnoxious I have to agree.
The guy won, get over it.

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Perhaps they were just trying to be playful?

-XT

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That some of them are guided by sweet reason?

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Can I wish termites on his house? Because that sounds fun.

(And it’d create jobs in WI!)

As a feminist, pacifist, vegetarian, expatriate Cheesehead, lefty bitch (just establishing my street cred with these fine hippies quoted above), I denounce anyone using that level of tortured spelling and grammar, and suggest they might be taken out of the gene pool for the good of humanity.

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Wait, that’s not quite right.

I denounce anyone wishing harm on Walker or his family, etc., etc., and think they’re a bunch of idiot twats that hopefully no one with a goddamned ounce of sense listens to.

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The ones about shooting must be right wingers. Also the ones with poor grammar and misspellings.
This one sounds like a left winger though.

The OP has no idea who sent these texts or why, if they were sent at all since the source is a right wing website. I wonder why he thinks this makes for a gratuitous attack against left wingers. I could make up some texts with ridiculous statements in them alleging them to come from right wingers. Absurd things like a preacher saying gays should be kept behind an electric fence, or that Mitt Romney likes to fire people, or Donald Trump saying he has evidence that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is phony. But who believe that nonsense?

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Shoot a walker in the leg? How ironic.

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I think, in all fairness, if you really want a rational response to a contrivance like this, you should be willing to provide a ZZZzzZZ oh god sorry what’s wrong with me.

What I meant to say was do you have a cite foZZZzzZZzz

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Can’t the authenticity of a given tweet be verified at twitter.com?

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Are you asking for a cite that posters here on the SDMB have claimed that the use of violent imagery is something that is used primarily by the right and not the left?

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Semi-literate threats from anonymous shitheads with atrocious grammar? No. That is not the Twitter I know.

I’m going to break with conventional wisdom and say that threatening violence against a political figure is wrong EVEN when it’s a Republican.

No, now, I know how it sounds, but I’ve agonized over this. Someone has to be brave enough to take a stand. I’m no hero; I’m just a guy in the right place at the right time.

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Hey, that sounds fun…

https://twitter.com/#!/TaeesWorld = “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”

https://twitter.com/#!/iWusGetnSumHead = “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”

Interesting; that format should work to display user info since the Twitter accounts I follow do show up fine that way. I’ll try some more looking.

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Yes, yes, we all condemn it.

The point is that violent imagery – and threats – is not something exclusive to the right.

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Hmmm.

Well, maybe this is literally manufactured outrage. If so, I certainly withdraw the claim.

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Here’s a screengrab of some of it.

I’m pretty sure that if an account gets closed suspended or taken down, the doesn’t exist page comes up. That is a WAG though.

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Hey, I’m not a Twitter expert or anything. Tweets from a user should show in that format if those are the usernames who tweeted them.

For instance, game programmer/designer dude Trent Oster, creator of the Baldur’s Gate Extended Edition, tweeting via @TrentOster: https://twitter.com/#!/TrentOster

Furious George: Ah, excellent - thanks for the guess.

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Of course, when I hear “angry tweets”, I think people want to knock down Walker’s pigs or something…