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@Shadowman311 i already accepted a long time ago that i will most likely die in a shootout with federal agents over calling someone a nigger online.
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@apropos @Shadowman311 they don't even have to do any work now. they pick a white man that they mildly dislike, deal with him in any way they see fit, and then craft a post facto narrative to clean it up. they damn near did it to the president for God's sake. it doesn't matter whether or not you've actually done anything wrong (either by their standards or actual objective standards), it simply matters who the bloated fat ass hamplanet oddbody of the fbi chooses to roll over onto and crush on any given day.
don't get me wrong i see your point i really do, but it essentially boils down to "if i'm the goodest goy possible then maybe i can slightly reduce the chances that they'll come after me," and i simply disagree with that.
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@flux_the_cat @apropos @Shadowman311 Just don't post anything that's in the domain of "actionable threats." There's plenty of room to oppose the regime outside of that, and they can come after you regardless, but it's best to fly under the radar compared to the many, many people online who lack such impulse control.
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@flux_the_cat @Shadowman311 it's about whether you love the FBI so much that you want to make things easier for them. Not "can they do it", but "how hard is for them to do it". At least make your enemies put in the work if they're going to destroy you.
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@apropos @Shadowman311 the fbi has always lashed out at shadows. so often have they done that in fact that they have famously even gone after their own people or after other people in related alphabet agencies by complete accident. the fbi already thinks i'm a terrorist simply by virtue of being a white man who doesn't vote democrat. it doesn't matter whether i call someone a nigger or not (not really) because even if i was squeaky clean by their standards they would just make some shit up to cover their tracks if they ghosted me by accident.
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@flux_the_cat @Shadowman311 which is why appeals to personal safety aren't that persuasive. Not only for your point, but for people who still have some faith in the US government.
Turn it around: when people fedpost, the government has a metric that they can track to show how angry the public is, and they have an ample pool of victims to make examples of whenever they want. Fedposting helps the enemy.
When people stop fedposting, the result won't be that FBI agents sleep more peacefully. The result will be that they'll know they don't have the vision and the resources that they used to have. They'll become like black people after all the slurs were banned: not content that they were accepted, but now paranoid that everyone is secretly hateful towards them. There's a threat but it's invisible. They can't say they've reduced anti-government extremism because they can't track it. They can't look at a Google Maps danger heatmap and advise politicians to switch venue because there's no information for it.
The really fuck with the FBI, deny their recon platforms.
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@ArdainianRight @apropos @Shadowman311 i don't think we're far off from almost anything being considered an "actionable threat." hell, the left wing has been openly claiming for nearly a decade at this point that "silence is violence."
if you put those puzzle pieces together a very ugly picture begins to emerge.
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