• @Wage_slave@lemmy.ml
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    "The complaint said Robertson came to the attention of federal agents in March after he posted a threat against Mr Bragg on Truth Social, the social network owned by Mr Trump. The company alerted the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center.

    FBI agents then visited the suspect, who told them that the post was a “dream” and ended the conversation by saying: “We’re done here! Don’t return without a warrant!”"

    Not only does Truth Social narc on him, but the “dreams” defense was a true sign of just how far gone that asshole was.

      • @socsa@lemmy.ml
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        Truth social is in it for the grift, not for the heat. They aren’t really the revolutionary counterculture fortress they make themselves out to be. They just figured out that stupid people are easy to monetize. Which is rapidly becoming MBA canon for all social media.

        • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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          52 years ago

          Honestly monetizing stupidity if you don’t have any personal morals is exceptionally easy. I often get jealous at the revenues even some of the simplest of these gifts are, and monkeypaw wish I was a shittier person.

          • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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            It’s why every scammer goes after old people. They usually aren’t as sharp as they once were unfortunately…

            My coworker just told me a story about his grandmother being robbed of 300k because some asshat came to her house and said she absolutely had to have the roof redone asap or it would collapse on her… She drove him to the bank and emptied her account… I was infuriated hearing about that and that he got away…

      • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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        -32 years ago

        Why do you say that? Do you think an obvious grift like truth social isn’t going to be play nice with the government? Why would any action they do hold more weight then something like facebook, reddit or lemmy?

    • @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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      I imagine they put him down like a dog after he said that. I also imagine they just killed him first and made up that statement afterwards. Who’s going to contradict the crazed armed murderers, not the dead guy I can tell you that, just ask Fred Hampton.

      • judgeholden [he/him]
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        32 years ago

        it’s a really bizarre story, I can’t find a single article explaining what actually happened. usually the cops lie and say he drew a weapon on them, or shot at them first, or they feared for their lives or something. there’s nothing with this, they’re just saying he’s dead.

        • It all boils down to, there used to be subbed crazy idiot mouthing off to his phone. Then the cops came and now there’s a dead body.

          This is what’s on the table with cop interaction, they’re going to kill you. They know the game better than you, they’ll always find a way to justify it and you’ll be too much of a rotting course to care.

  • bigmonkey [they/them]
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    682 years ago

    The messages continued as late as Tuesday, when he posted: “Perhaps Utah will become famous this week as the place a sniper took out Biden the Marxist.”

    bawllin-sad The world is lesser now that we have lost this great mind

  • ArugulaZ
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    Bury that miserable thing and set a porta-potty on the grave.

  • @BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    122 years ago

    And the world got a little less shitty today. I love seeing Darwinism in real time. I feel bad for the FBI agent that might have guilt from taking a life.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    Virgin Putin

    • Let’s Prigo get away with an armed coup attempt
    • Everybody laughs at him

    Vs.

    Chad Biden

    • Has guy who wrote dumb threats against him online killed
    • Strikes fear in the hearts of his enemies
  • BurnTheRight
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    “Next up on Fox News… The libs have weaponized the FBI and are executing innocent conservatives for exercising their freedumb of speech!”

    • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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      Yes, the parties of Capital use the state-monopoly on violence to enforce the status quo. How old are you that you don’t realize this?

  • @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    1092 years ago

    Sounds like (purely speculation, since the details aren’t available) he pulled a gun on or otherwise threatened the agents coming to arrest him, based on his other behavior. Told them to come back with a warrant, they did so, and he took issue?

    Either way, posting on the internet about assassinating government officials, regardless of whether it’s serious or not, was probably not the smartest opening move.

    • @rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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      52 years ago

      No video, no proof that he threatened them. Innocent until proven guilty should be clear that this ought to be read as an extra-judicial killing

      • DarkGamer
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        352 years ago

        They sure are big on traitors and hostile to the rule of law lately.

          • DarkGamer
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            The right used to at least pretend to be into law and order.

            • @Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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              42 years ago

              They were never into law and order.

              They were just into law beating and brutalizing black and poor people.

            • @abraxas@lemmy.ml
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              42 years ago

              They’ve always backed conservative cops enforcing conservative laws against “other people” but letting conservatives off with a warning.

            • Zorque
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              They still pretend, they just also pretend that the rule of law is different than what it is.

              You know how many far-righters have “back the blue” and thin blue line bumper stickers?

              • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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                And yet here were are in a thread about the state murdering someone over words and liberals are falling over themselves to “back the blue” hardest.

              • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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                62 years ago

                Yes the same guys who rant about government tyranny yet defend police (government employees/enforcers) at every opportunity love to also rant about the rule of law unless those rules are applied to them or their current flavor of the week messiah.

      • @Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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        202 years ago

        They turned a dumb cunt that jumped over a barricade to rush a bunch of men with guns into a martyr.

        They’ll turn this guy into The Jesus to Trumps God.

    • @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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      He was posting over and over on how he’d kill the prez, the veep, and Alvin Bragg for months. The one that finally did him in was talking about sniping Diamond Joe. They paid him a visit, and he got squirrelly on 'em.

      • mosiacmango
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        Thats just the official story. What actually happened was that dark biden’s Cyber-Brain picked up the threat, so he used his lazer vision while at a rally in New Mexico to vaporize him.

        The media is totally censoring the thousand mile long lazer beam the president shot out of his eyes. They have the footage, but they are too afraid to tell the truth, because then the Clinton Mutant Teenage Turtles will kill them.

        Read all about it on that guys truth social page.