Evil Trump supporter tweets a strobe at Kurt Eichenwald

[The_Tooth]

@drad_dog

Eichmann, Eichenwald, who can tell the difference nowadays?

Me. Eich can.

[crowmanyclouds]

@Chefguy

Hell, so was Eichmann.

Ahhh, it isn’t just me that thought this.

and :D, but still and :mad:.

CMC fnord!

[drad_dog]

@The_Tooth

Me. Eich can.

Wald at’s gud, mann

[sinjin]

@Starving_Artist

And while we’re on the subject of this manipulative, lying, dishonest faux-journalist, does a flashing light on a computer screen really have the same effect on an epileptic as an in-person strobe light? I’m asking because I really don’t know, but I do know I’m disinclined to take that guy’s word at face value on anything.

Yes, you twit, and you would have known this with a simple google search. Every computer game comes with a warning at the start about possible epileptic results prior to loading the game. They have for years. You are a small small man.

[ganthet]

@Starving_Artist

And while we’re on the subject of this manipulative, lying, dishonest faux-journalist, does a flashing light on a computer screen really have the same effect on an epileptic as an in-person strobe light? I’m asking because I really don’t know, but I do know I’m disinclined to take that guy’s word at face value on anything.

Wikipedia article on Kurt Eichenwald:

@Kurt Eichenwald

Kurt Alexander Eichenwald (born June 28, 1961) is an American journalist who serves as a senior writer with Newsweek, a contributing editor with Vanity Fair and a New York Times bestselling author of four books, one of which, The Informant (2000), was made into a motion picture in 2009. He was formerly a writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times and later with Condé Nast’s business magazine, Portfolio. Eichenwald had been employed by The New York Times since 1986 and primarily covered Wall Street and corporate topics such as insider trading, accounting scandals, and takeovers, but also wrote about a range of issues including terrorism, the Bill Clinton pardons controversy, Federal health care policy, and sexual predators on the Internet.

Does the status of whether someone is a genuine or faux journalist make someone more worthy of serious physical injury or harm?

As to whether images/lights on a computer screen can cause a seizure, here’s what the Epilepsy Foundation says:

@The Epilepsy Foundation

Not all televisions, video games, computer monitors, and strobe lights trigger seizures, however. Even in predisposed individuals, many factors must combine to trigger the photosensitive reaction. Examples include:

Frequency of the flash (that is, how quickly the light is flashing)
Brightness
Contrast with background lighting
Distance between the viewer and the light source
Wavelength of the light
Whether a person’s eyes are open or closed

The frequency or speed of flashing light that is most likely to cause seizures varies from person to person. Generally, flashing lights most likely to trigger seizures are between the frequency of 5 to 30 flashes per second (Hertz).

[ganthet]

Apologies - here is the correct link for Kurt Eichenwald’s Wikipedia page.

[Evil_Economist]

@Starving_Artist

Perhaps if he weren’t such a lying, obfuscating and obnoxious twit he wouldn’t inspire people to do things like that to him.

You’re a bad person.

[cochrane]

@Evil_Economist

You’re a bad person.

Off to the cornfield with you.

[Starving_Artist]

Don’t believe I’ve ever heard outrage and talk of victim blaming around here when Trump and his supporters have come in for abuse because of things he’s said and done. Where’s his right to behave provocatively without consequence, hmm?

[Guinastasia]

@Starving_Artist

Don’t believe I’ve ever heard outrage and talk of victim blaming around here when Trump and his supporters have come in for abuse because of things he’s said and done. Where’s his right to behave provocatively without consequence, hmm?

Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Criticizing someone is the same as trying to cause someone to have a fucking seizure? Are you fucking high? What the FUCK is your fucking problem?

If someone tried to do that to Trump, I’d say they’re just as sick. You’ve got some serious fucking problems. Do you honestly not understand the difference?

[Superdude]

Be careful, Guin. He’s liable to metaphorically backhand you from the 18th century, for daring to be a female who didn’t receive permission to talk.

[Steve_MB]

@Starving_Artist

I’m asking because I really don’t know, but I do know I’m disinclined to

…get off my butt and do my own homework.

[Starving_Artist]

@Guinastasia

Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Criticizing someone is the same as trying to cause someone to have a fucking seizure? Are you fucking high? What the FUCK is your fucking problem?

If someone tried to do that to Trump, I’d say they’re just as sick. You’ve got some serious fucking problems. Do you honestly not understand the difference?

I certainly do, Guinny dear, and frankly I’m wondering if you’re the one who’s high, as I never said anything about wanting to cause him to have a seizure. But please don’t let the facts get in the way of your dudgeon.

[iiandyiiii]

@Starving_Artist

Don’t believe I’ve ever heard outrage and talk of victim blaming around here when Trump and his supporters have come in for abuse because of things he’s said and done. Where’s his right to behave provocatively without consequence, hmm?

Criticism is not comparable to assault. Criticism is fine; assault is not.

Why not just try to look at it like a human, and recognize that trying to trigger an epileptic seizure in someone is wrong, full stop, with no victim blaming whatsoever? Maybe the guy deserves criticism – but attempted assault isn’t criticism.

I wonder sometimes if you’re capable of separating the human part of you from the conservative. They don’t always have to conflict. Some conservatives are assholes, and there’s no need to defend every one of them.

[Skywatcher]

@iiandyiiii

I wonder sometimes if you’re capable of separating the human part of you from the conservative. They don’t always have to conflict. Some conservatives are assholes, and there’s no need to defend every one of them.

“Cardboard Knighting”.

[CandidGamera]

Why does anyone even engage with Starving Artist at this point? Can anyone cite a single useful thing he has contributed to the boards, ever? Or is he basically just a practice dummy for venting well-deserved outrage? Just shut him out.

[Wolf333]

He does serve as a good example of how not to be.

[SteveG1]

@ganthet

Wikipedia article on Kurt Eichenwald:

Does the status of whether someone is a genuine or faux journalist make someone more worthy of serious physical injury or harm?

As to whether images/lights on a computer screen can cause a seizure, here’s what the Epilepsy Foundation says:

Here’s the justification:

** Originally Posted by Kurt Eichenwald**
Kurt Alexander Eichenwald (born June 28, 1961) is an American journalist who serves as a senior writer with Newsweek, a contributing editor with Vanity Fair …He was formerly a writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times a…covered Wall Street and corporate topics such as** insider trading, accounting scandals, and takeovers**, …

As we all now know, Vanity Fair had the unmitigated audacity, the gall, the effrontery, to give Trump’s pretentious and grossly overpriced restaurant a bad review, which triggered Trump. Because that is more important than trying to start learning how to be president or going to security briefings. So being so busy meeting with Kanye West and fighting with Saturday Night Live and holding “I won” rallies, (because those are so important) he had to make room in his busy sched to start a Twitter battle with Vanity Fair.

Or it could be the NY Times connection because umm didn’t the Times have the rudenss to mildly question something or other?

Or maybe just the matter of reporting on crooked "business"men?

[SteveG1]

@Guinastasia

Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Criticizing someone is the same as trying to cause someone to have a fucking seizure? Are you fucking high? What the FUCK is your fucking problem?

If someone tried to do that to Trump, I’d say they’re just as sick. You’ve got some serious fucking problems. Do you honestly not understand the difference?

I think it’s worse than that, as in

Knows But Doesn’t Give A Fuck.

[Chefguy]

@crowmanyclouds

Ahhh, it isn’t just me that thought this.

and :D, but still and :mad:.

CMC fnord!

I was, of course, referring to Wilhelm “Chip” Eichmann, Adolph’s less murderous cousin.