[paganel]

> Or “Russian oligarchs put plutonium in Putin’s coffee”.

Saying that about the US president who was bankrolling a trillion dollars-plus invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan would have put one in jail, interesting to see that when applied to another country is now perfectly ok. Relevant Whitest Kids U' Know sketch [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3_kUaYFJA

[EdwardDiego]

I very much doubt that. Maybe an awkward conversation with the Feds would've ensued while they ascertained if you had access to plutonium, much like the awkward conversation I had with Police when my estranged step-brother was threatening to shoot politicians, and they were trying to ascertain if I'd give him access to my firearms. (Fuck no, obviously.)

Given the hyperbole that US politics has descended into, if your theory was true, half of US political Twitter would be in gaol already.

[paganel]

At least writing down that sort of stuff (death wishes against foreign politicians) on a public forum would have been frowned upon and made part of that forum’s TOS, but, as I said, doing this to the boogie man of the day is actually seen as ok.

Trump was (is, actually) also seen as a foreign-controlled boogie man, that’s why the open death threats on Twitter and the like were not reaceiving any action, including from Twitter itself. I haven’t seen any direct threats against Biden, more than that, anti-Biden people had to adopt that Brandon slogan thing in order to pass some of the implicit censorship applied by big tech companies.

[EdwardDiego]

> I haven’t seen any direct threats against Biden

You're not looking hard enough.

Also, see the filth spewed out about any woman who is a minority Democrat congress member.

> anti-Biden people had to adopt that Brandon slogan thing

They chose to adopt it, your belief that they "had" to is not in alignment with the facts.

Given the obvious lineage of "Let's Go Brandon", if your assertion that they chose it to avoid being moderated/banned/imprisoned was true, then why isn't that happening when they mention Brandon? Because we all know what that means. Twitter knows, FB knows, the FBI knows.

Stating that this was forced upon them to avoid some mythical persecution carries the implicit assumption that everyone is an idiot who has no idea what they mean, the logic is severely flawed.

What I really enjoy about the whole Brandon thing is that their "clever" in-phrase has been co-opted and suborned by young Biden supporters, check out /r/DarkBrandon.

[paganel]

> You're not looking hard enough.

I'm really curious, where should I have looked? I'm quite regularly checking on the reddit off-site version of what used to be /the_donald, and I have to say that never have I seen any death threats targeting Biden in there. Of course, there's anti-semitic stuff, there's racist stuff, but no death threats. To be fair though I'm not visiting 4chan/pol or 8chan/pol or whatever it's now called, but most of the people from there aren't real, anyway.

[kthejoker2]

Lol plenty of "f*k Joe Biden" ("and f*k you for voting for him!") chants, flags, paraphernalia down here in Texas. Common as a church bell.

Nobody's worried about being censored as far as I can see.