[gosub100]

this remark about the threat is incredibly presumptuous:

"it was also clearly absurd, an obvious joke, not a credible threat."

[lmm]

That is a completely accurate description of that screenshot IMO. Even if the guy who posted it was making phone calls to get thugs to beat people up and hoping they'd take it further, that post is still clearly absurd, an obvious joke, not a credible threat. This is "96% of serial killers have used bread" stuff.

[mrguyorama]

But it was never a joke! It was a guy basically running harassment enterprise, including swatting people and other false flag style crimes.

He wasn't being silly or lampooning anything or creating satire, he was trying to make conversation worse. That's not a joke.

[lmm]

> But it was never a joke!

It was blatantly a joke. The article even gives us the context that it was part of the guy deliberately getting himself banned from that instance.

> It was a guy basically running harassment enterprise, including swatting people and other false flag style crimes.

Sure, maybe (if it even was that guy and not some random unrelated joker). But even people doing that can also still joke.

> He wasn't being silly or lampooning anything or creating satire

He absolutely was. "I will leave my fingerprints and DNA behind so they can catch me"? That's really funny.