109 points

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.

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That won’t stop the far right from turning him into a martyr

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35 points

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

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Lately?

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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.

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What word did you try and use there?

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5 points

What you mean that won’t STOP them? That actually STARTs them again!

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4 points

Or from producing more of them.

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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.

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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.

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9 points

He must’ve forgotten to add “…in Minecraft.”.

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“Opening” is quite an interesting word in this context

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107 points

Yeah, umm… what did he think would happen when he threatened the life of a sitting president?

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It’s worth pointing out that the victim probably isn’t in social circles where the government killing people for no reason all the time gets much attention. Hyperreality is a serious thing, the guy’s worldview probably makes it seem like free speech exists, unless it’s a bad slur on facebook dot commie.

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a death sqaud in a banana republic … psychic evaluation in a civilisation ?

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I mean what was supposed to happen? Are we meant to be scared of the FBI? They can’t even take down an overweight elderly man with a combover…

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The guy openly posted that the FBI wouldn’t dare raid him because they’d get a 45 ACP in the face. I’m no law enforcement apologist but that kind of boast can put people on edge. Specific threats of violence should never be acceptable.

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I also prefer my threats of violence to be vague and unactionable.

I’ll see you soon.

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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.

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You know you goofed when Truth Social turns you in to the feds

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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.

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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.

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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?

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They’re taking away his right to free dreams.

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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.

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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.

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68 points

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.”

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

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19 points

Guy just wanted Biden to live up to the legacy of the first Catholic president

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63 points

lol dumbass didn’t even add “in Minecraft” to his posts

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6 points

Completely forgot this was a thing lol

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