My client isn’t very good at showing context. What is this about? Biden or Swift?

Anyway…violent threats aren’t protected speech…

• The First Amendment does not protect violent or unlawful conduct, even if the person engaging in it intends to express an idea. United States v. O’Brien, 391 U.S. 367, 376 (1968).

• The First Amendment does not protect speech that incites imminent violence or lawlessness. Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 447 (1969).

And also a federal felony…

It is is felony under federal law to communicate a threat to injure or kidnap another person online, by phone or mail, or using other interstate channels. 18 U.S.C. § 875©

It is a felony under federal law to intentionally “solicit, command, induce, or otherwise endeavor to persuade” another person to engage in a crime of violence against a person or property. 18 U.S.C. § 373.

(PDF link hosted by Georgetown University Law Center) https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2020/12/Fact-Sheet-on-Threats-Related-to-the-Election.pdf

Do you not understand the difference between criminal and civil?

This is like 4th grade social studies my man. Maybe you should go back.

You’re technically correct, but you’re still an asshole.

Punishment for yelling fire in a crowded theater isn’t a first amendment violation. Yelling fire in a crowded theater when there isn’t a fire, you know there isn’t a fire, and a stampede occurs resulting in a death, is involuntarily manslaughter.

Punishment for death threats isn’t a first amendment violation, but it is usually coercion.

And publishing classified data without authorization is illegal, but it’s highly nuanced. It can be considered a first amendment right of the press to publish classified documents in some circumstances, but how they obtained those documents is definitely scrutinized. Then there’s always the question of “what is press” nowadays when literally everybody carries their own personal printing press in their pocket.

What’s this? 2.5 minutes of 3-second sound bites of random people, without any context except for the poster priming you that Democrats are inciting violence?

Try harder.

It’s an ironic name. Like the burly gangster named “Tiny”.

Oh man. “I saw it on TV!”. Exact same intonation my 4yo used when he saw a “trailer” for Mario Movie 2 when actually it was just some junk a highschool kid threw together in iMovie. Totally belief and innocent ignorance.

It’s at that moment I realized that Trump isn’t just a useful idiot. He’s the perfect useful idiot.

Like a part of me thinks that Trump might actually believe in Santa and that he looks an awful lot like that guy in the power tool show and sounds an awful lot like Buzz Lightyear.

Obviously they aren’t recent, it’s an old graveyard.

You know why nobody living in a town gets buried in its cemetery? Because they are living.

I’d been meaning to try out atomic distros. I’m not an expert on Linux by any means but I’ve been using it on-and-off for about 25 years, and exclusively (at home, at least) for about 7. So I’m a bit more than a noob.

I do worry if I’d feel restricted inside of an atomic distro. Might throw kininite on a laptop I’ve been meaning to give to my kid, tho.

My prediction for this courts interpretation:

Money is speech, and corporations are people, ergo banning price gouging is an explicit violation of the corporations first amendment rights.

So we need a French immigrant to help fix the government?

Detroit failed because of automation and off-shoring. Things that could have been repaired or prevented politically, sure. But not directly caused by policies based in bigotry and ignorance.

If any correlation can be made, it’s from white-flight. Which would be caused by Detroit’s massive loss of jobs and Florida’s massive loss of land. But white flight, imo, is the reaction, not the catalyst, of its downfall.

Florida woke and brown? Half the state literally needs to take a nap, and the only brown is in their Depends.

America isn’t racist anymore. Not in the classical sense.

We are closer to caste, but we use race as a criteria…people of a “lesser race” are default placed into a lower caste, but not necessarily, since blood, marriage, or loyalty can get them out of it.

I mean, it kinda is, especially in Florida of all places.

Had even half his voters, just in FL, gone to Gore in 2000, it wouldn’t have even been a question who won. The world would be a wildly different place.

So yeah, thanks Nader voters.

And somehow we still have people preaching abstinence or a third party this year in their arrogant quest to make perfect the mortal enemy of good.