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CoastalCoder ◴[] No.43665090[source]
Responding to a now-deleted comment that seemed to suggest a violent response:

What would be the point, honestly?

Calling for his assassination would, rightly in my opinion, be prosecutable.

I'm too demoralized at the moment to hope for what I'd consider an appropriate response by state or federal governments / courts.

The third most likely solution, revolution / civil war, would probably cause far more suffering than any fixes it might enable.

I'm curious if America will soon reach a tipping point where a sizeable portion of its population actually makes an effort to emigrate, rather than just talking about it.

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BobaFloutist ◴[] No.43673548[source]
I don't know that stochastic terrorism is actually illegal in the US, especially if you're not a person of note. I'm pretty sure it's legal to say "Someone should really shoot that guy, he deserves to die and I hope someone does it."

Now, it might violate Hacker News's policies and get deleted, but that's different from it being against the law.

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1. AlexeyBelov ◴[] No.43678555[source]
I'm sure there is a line where it's OK to say on HackerNews, but also clearly hints at "where are Mario Bros. when you need them".

Maybe we need more of plausible deniability.