I’ve tried that format for four or five more of the names listed, and none exist.
That’ll teach me to believe a single source.
I still contend that violent imagery and threats are not limited to the right. But this is not the proof of that claim, because ethos evidence seems to be completely made up.
I apologize. Please disregard.
ETA: even if the accounts are suspended, and the tweets are real, I have come to believe this is weak sauce.
Yes and “Tj Fucked Yo Bitch” isn’t expressed any homicidal intent. It’s possible that his tweets of “AND If Scott Walker Got A Wife Imma Fuck Her Face—” and “NBS I Know What School Scott Walker Son Go To—” are his clumsily articulated way of saying he admires Governor Walker’s wonderful family and wishes he was in a similar situation.
I thought somebody had said upthread that none of them worked, sorry. I just tried the last half-dozen, though, and they either didn’t exist or the quoted tweets did not appear in their feed.
Those people just deleted their accounts when they started to get all the negative feedback. The same thing happened when a black hockey player from the Washington Capitols scored a goal to eliminate the Boston Bruins from the playoffs. Twitter was full of racist tweets.
It is weak sauce, though. Twitter is full of dumbasses and stuff like this is to be expected.
I’ve heard that threats against the POTUS went up about 4 times as soon as Obama took office.
I’m not saying right-wingers in general are more violent; they’re not. Look at Stalin and Mao.
However, the right wing in the USA is waaaay more dangerously violent than the left wing. Who owns guns more? Conservatives. Who has a general fascination with and near worship of all things military? Conservatives, generally speaking.
It’s just not even close. Bricker, why don’t you just give up? Who on earth do you think you’re convincing? There are enough smart, well-informed, unbiased people here to make your efforts to spam conservatism completely useless. Aren’t there some video games you can play? Maybe there’s a crusty conservative lawyer message board somewhere you can go participate in, or something. The SDMB isn’t buying your schtick.
I thought we learned in the robocalling thread that if something appears to have been perpetrated by one side, it’s obviously a big scam perpetrated by the other side to make the first side look bad…?
I was actually able to find about 5 or 6 (I didn’t check all of them) - and with the exception of one they appeared to be teenagers in high school. The thing I found most interesting about these carefully harvested selections is that they are almost without exception written in ‘ebonics’ … I wonder why that might be.
Since the threatening Tweets are being investigated by law enforcement, it would not surprise me if Twitter removed the offending tweets or twitter accounts as soon as they became aware there was a legal issue pending.