• Alteon@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’d bet dollars to donuts that it’s the same groups of people doing ALL of these death threats. If you find these people, I’d bet we see a sharp decrease of all of these false threats.

    I mean, they are just as bad as these serial swatters.

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      9 months ago

      Eh. They do get caught, frequently, and they’re always just some loser that spends their time in maga echo chambers.

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        9 months ago

        I had no idea that they were actually getting caught. I figured it would have made the news at some point. Like, “X number of people calling in death threats have been caught in Y year,” or something.

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          9 months ago

          Yeah, I don’t know about the latest batch, but I’ve seen plenty of “so and so has been arrested on charges for making threats on (political figure)”. Usually trickles in well after the news story of the threat.