I agree that incentivizing violence is a strategy of provocateurs, however I encourage you to look at the user profiles of the people doing that incentivization. I mean, even the guy I quoted above -- who literally suggested storming and occupying Congress -- has been on TDW for a year and has about 30,000 comment/post points.
Again, I'm not disagreeing with you. However, a significant amount of the threats of violence were coming from genuine, verifiable users, not shills.
Sorry for the double reply, I just wanted to make my record here too. A significant amount of those calling for violence are verifiable, genuine users, see, e.g., guy calling for Congress to be stormed and occupied. It's irrelevant if the mods endorsed those comments, what they show is that the community -- writ large -- had a significant amount of people that believed violence was appropriate.
I'm not going to link them here because, frankly, I don't have time right now to dive into the TDW logs. However, I recall seeing a ton of front-page posts on that website calling for resort to the "ammo box" as the election lawsuits were progressively defeated in court.
I agree that incentivizing violence is a strategy of provocateurs, however I encourage you to look at the user profiles of the people doing that incentivization. I mean, even the guy I quoted above -- who literally suggested storming and occupying Congress -- has been on TDW for a year and has about 30,000 comment/post points.
Again, I'm not disagreeing with you. However, a significant amount of the threats of violence were coming from genuine, verifiable users, not shills.
Nice. Folks are super pissed and feel they have no recourse.
This is the best comment from that:
Mine is:
For comparison, here is the graveyard of a comment section on that post after the mods attempted to delete all violent comments after January 6th.
I don’t know why people are downvoting you. Just because they dislike the truth I suppose?
It's just the influx of new users from TDW I'm assuming.
Sorry for the double reply, I just wanted to make my record here too. A significant amount of those calling for violence are verifiable, genuine users, see, e.g., guy calling for Congress to be stormed and occupied. It's irrelevant if the mods endorsed those comments, what they show is that the community -- writ large -- had a significant amount of people that believed violence was appropriate.
I'm not going to link them here because, frankly, I don't have time right now to dive into the TDW logs. However, I recall seeing a ton of front-page posts on that website calling for resort to the "ammo box" as the election lawsuits were progressively defeated in court.