I’ve gotten death threats from extremists for writing about extremists. Especially for mocking them.
Maybe you shouldn’t take an oath to support and defend the constitution if you’re going to stop as soon an incel from Fort Wayne sends a misspelled email.
Maybe you shouldn’t take an oath to support and defend the constitution if you’re going to stop as soon an incel from Fort Wayne sends a misspelled email.
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Regina Schrambling
Gillibrand on WNYC today said one reason they're all falling in line is that they get death threats.
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This next cycle could be similar for Dems.
Politicians (and civil servants) don't go into their careers to risk their mental and physical health (or their familys')
I definitely didn't go into my job to be attacked legally
I like heroes, but its foolish to expect civil servants to take abuse & risks when as a nation we told them all to f_ck off with our votes
But Trump helps them accomplish everything they want with no work and takes all the blowback
No chance they will wake up
But in my career, I manage a team and I am a force for positive change.
If I had to do my job in a climate where I was being personally attacked (and my family) and had to fight for doing what is self-evidently good for my organization I would leave.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/call-your-senator-sen-gillibrand-on-trump-20/
Eh, same result.
It's a blue city fighting for survival in a deeply red state.
Assassins aren't known as loyal Miss Manners readers.
'The well heeled assassin among genteel society must always observe the proper etiquette to avoid the embarrassment of roguish and ungentlemanly faux pas...'
Very beta.
They're all failing us so spectacularly.
Poor babies.
Get out of my state. 🇺🇸
Most politicians are cowards. I have no expectation that they will support their peers who aren’t. Or us.
The fact that his harassers have spelling challenges is an extra level of disappointing.
He can have my beer.
realized if they band together they can be rid of him.
Cowards and stupid to boot.
Didn't stop when I took off the uniform.
Not sure why members of Congress think their oath is any less serious.
I get it that overthrowing the US govt is the final boss in the current game Musk is playing in his head, and I also get that Trump is the most useful NPC for that effort.
Suppose he beats this game. Then what?
Are we studying this?
That said, if CPD *likes* you, you're doing something wrong
But he's very good at pretending to love super mild no gravy butter chicken now.
Once got a death threat bec I suggested gun reform. He said he wanted to hang me in the gallows in his backyard & sent me a pic of gallows. I don't know if it was his yard or a generic pic. BTW he was from rural Northern California
It was one of the first death threats that I'd ever received on Twitter, & it was the first time a pic accompanied a death threat. It helped convince me to change my profile pic from a female to unisex.
When I had a female profile pic, the threats were more graphic & overall more awful. I truly feel sorry for female public figures
Every day I mentally rehearsed what I would do in case of an active shooter situation. For ten years.
Not much sympathy for weakasses in Congress.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/call-your-senator-sen-gillibrand-on-trump-20
Step aside and let a patriot fight for America if it’s getting too hot
I got death threats online in 2021-22 for fighting misinfo about Covid. Other health workers on my team also got threats.
The point is not bragging rights about who got what threats when. The point is that when you work in a field where people get emotional in opposing you, physical risk is part of the job.
If you are liberal you are facing risk too; so now not only is it workplace violence such as what you have witnessed and experienced but violence randomly brought upon unsuspecting people for flagging "liberal" signifiers...
MLK Jr taught us that the moral force of nonviolent resistance lies in the fact of people putting their bodies on the line.
Costs has risks, but we take
Them
Happily.
For example, me, and I'm a nobody.
As an elected legislator, I'd be terrified, even if I had the courage to do the right things.
BWHAHAHAAHAHAHAAH
TAC is a self contained nym, see there were these lawyers I thought might come after me, so I built with that in mind...
Then I figured out how stupid they actually were & realized I put way to much thought into it. :)
Mostly it doesn’t get mentioned because many people are just as fine with it as they are with rape.
I tried to argue with people about this and getting pushback in the comments, because I was assuming something like when they put the pressure on the juror in The Sopranos, not an
TO THE USA
CONSTITUTION
EITHER MEANS
SOMETHING TO YOU
OR IT DOESNT!
But the point is people are acting like it was Gillibrand & Dems are spineless.
Pointing out the avg journalist, health care worker, podcaster has more integrity than a Republican Senator is so obvious, why point it out in this way?
TO THE USA
CONSTITUTION
EITHER MEANS
SOMETHING TO YOU
OR IT DOESNT!
TAKING AN OATH
TO THE USA
CONSTITUTION
EITHER MEANS
SOMETHING TO YOU
OR IT DOESNT!
Involved in prosecution (unpaid) of a ruby ridge ATF agent — death threats
Sue LAPD over LAPD day to day shit—death threats
Involved (unpaid) in getting Katrina pets returned to owners —death threats