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2019-nCoV ◴[] No.23347204[source]
How is that glorifying violence?
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rootlocus ◴[] No.23347212[source]
> when the looting starts, the shooting starts.

What part of this isn't?

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2019-nCoV[dead post] ◴[] No.23347228[source]
It doesn't unequivocally say that at all. It can reasonably be interpreted as: "once people are willing to break the law and start looting, it's not long before there are also people shooting"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

s5300 ◴[] No.23347235[source]
Who are you to try to infer alternative ways a direct statement from the POTUS should be parsed.

Surely, you're trolling. HN isn't the place for that.

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1. kecupochren ◴[] No.23347666[source]
IMHO even HN is being astroturfed already...
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2. jacquesm ◴[] No.23348579[source]
In the general case: yes, absolutely. But in the specific, to make that claim for an individual account requires a high burden of proof. Some people are just stupid or trolls, not necessarily part of an astroturfing operation.