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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 102 points 1 year 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.

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago
[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

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?

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[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year 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.

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

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@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] exohuman@programming.dev 102 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ElHexo@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Right? The US government kills people for no reason all the time and this guy thinks he'll be safe after giving them a reason

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[-] Wage_slave@lemmy.ml 95 points 1 year ago

"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.

[-] False@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

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

[-] socsa@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

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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[-] bigmonkey@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year 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

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 58 points 1 year ago

inb4 he's turned into a martyr.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

This is just the first step of Biden's ethnic cleansing of white cishet Christians.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

lol dumbass didn't even add "in Minecraft" to his posts

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago

Another member of Ya'l-Qaeda dusted, and nothing much of value was lost.

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[-] YaksDC@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

At least he went out doing what he loved....... being an idiot.

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 heart of his enemies
[-] M68040@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

I like it when bad things happen to right wingers

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[-] halfpipe@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the guy who tried to break into a secure building with a gun , became frustrated by the bullet proof glass, and then hid in a field in the middle of his shoot-out with the cops to post some updates about his shoot-out.

This kind of guy is just going to become a thing in American culture now, I guess.

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Honestly if there wasn't going to be innocent people caught in the crossfire, I'd be all for right-wing nutters starting shootouts with cops to be a thing. Hearing about a dead frothingfash or an officer-down on the news wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

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[-] SeizeToothbrush@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Not even a gun. It was a fucking nail gun. Half-assed approach to domestic terrorism these days.

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

hog on hog violence, you love to see it! fash-infighting

[-] corm@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 year ago

Ok so either he drew a gun on them or they executed him. Well it should be cleared up quickly with body cam footage.

What's that? No body cam footage?

Right, then I'm going to have to assume they executed him while he was surrendering peacefully.

(I voted for biden, but I also don't trust the fbi to miss a chance to shoot someone)

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[-] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

In bad country you can be punished or even jailed for talking about government officials. Not here in America though.

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[-] BurnTheRight@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

"Next up on Fox News... The libs have weaponized the FBI and are executing innocent conservatives for exercising their freedumb of speech!"

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[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

One less fascist symp voting in 2024.

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[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Oh no….anyways.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year 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.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

So like it's cool just to murder people exercising their free speech on the internet?

[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Freedom of speech, not freedom from the consequences of said speech. It's explicitly illegal to do what this smoothbrain did.

He wasn't killed for saying anything. Sounds like this mouthbreather decided to suicide by cop when they confronted him. I'm no fan of cops, but FAFO in this case

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[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Lucky bastard, doesn't have to live on a burning planet anymore.

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