[ SECRET POST #2951 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2951 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The To-Do List, Brandy/Willy]


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[Avatar: Legend of Korra]


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[The Amazing World of Gumball]


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[Agents of Shield]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Galavant]


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[Soukyuu no Fafner Exodus]


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[Jamie Dornan from "The Fall"]


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(Neil Gaiman)













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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, and people do that. They say, "Hey, such and such said "Let's get rid of all the Jews." I think that person should be put on a watch list."

And they would most likely be investigated. (Usually without them ever realizing they are being watched.) And if they seen as a threat, they are put on a watch list. But they aren't arrested until they actually do physical harm.

Look, do you know how many people make threats in the country every single day? Ranging from, "Eat the Rich. Exterminate the poor. Kill Whitey. Lynch Darkie. Eradicate the Jews. Destroy the Muslims." Lots.

99% of it is hot air. People trying to look big and bad. People blowing off steam. But nothing ever comes from it.

There's an American phrase that perfectly sums this up, "Shooting your mouth off." Meaning to talk bad, often violently but as a misstep and not really serious.

Americans like to trash talk. It's a right to do so. But, again, most of it is just nothing but idiotic rambling that should not be taken seriously.

[siofrabunnies]

Right. But you can only really differentiate trash talk from actual threats after the fact, and that leads to people actually getting lynched. I get that authorities can't investigate every potential threat, but I wish potential threats could be followed up on. That 1% that isn't hot air is disturbing to me. And just because it's not a real threat doesn't mean it should be brushed aside. It still sounds like a real threat, which creates fear in innocent people, and there's that 1% chance that it is a real threat. And, if you can't tell beforehand, then you either have to take all of them seriously (spending a lot of man-hours) or accept that 1% of those threats are genuine, and hope no one dies from it.

(Non-related question: do I read as not American to you, or are you covering your bases? Because I'm very midwestern. Not that I'm offended, just asking.)

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT--I don't actually know this for a fact, but if I had to guess, what separates "trash talk" from actual credible threats is plausibility and planning. Like, if you say you're gonna shoot up a school or a business, but you don't own and have never fired a gun, you're maybe less of a threat than the guy who says the same thing while lovingly curating his gun collection, who is less of a threat than the guy with a bigger gun collection, a grudge against a teacher or classmate or coworker, and a map of the place he said he wants to shoot up.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much this. AFAIK you can't get arrested just for making threats or saying you're going to do something, you have to actually take steps towards doing so in order to get in legal trouble. You have to show intent, in other words.