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[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 146 points 1 year ago

How in 2024 do we not have the ability to find and prosecute offenders of false 911 calls like this?

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago

We do but our cops are fascist and want Trump to win.

[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ding Ding Ding!

I managed to quite royally piss off a paranoid county contracted bounty huntress by showing her Trump's mugshot.

Good thing she needed me as a witness.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would cops investigate themselves?

[-] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

If the caller has more than two braincells, they'll user a burner phone, rented phone number etc.

These types of things are next to impossible to trace if done right

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

Yeah but if GOP voters were smart they wouldn't be voting for the GOP, so should be pretty easy to trace.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Criminal minds don't necessarily have to be smart, they have to be criminal.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Nah, they get caught all the time. There is just an endless supply of brain-dead conservative cultist to keep doing it.

Remember Cesar Sayoc?

[-] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, that's why I included the two brain cell clause, covers a good 50% of the population, perhaps even more than that

[-] xor@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

people who do that are found frequently... but if they're not completely dumb, they would be untraceable. (basically a burner phone)

i remember one guy, who eventually got caught anyways, had a swatting service where he used some aol service that would transcribe phone calls for the blind, and contacted them over tor...
i think it should be hard for cops to track people... it should be possible to defy the gov

e.g. if drumpf becomes dictator, it'll be good to have a way to escape...

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Police are only obliged to protect private property. Especially large collections of private property. Not people.

[-] Redward@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago

That’s why it’s the role of the fbi to investigate any threats to officials

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really appreciate all the people responding with valid well thought out counter points and examples. Not simply smashing the download button because they can't prove otherwise but still don't like it.

  • Edit I really appreciate all the people responding with valid well thought out counter points and examples. Not simply smashing the down vote button because they can't prove otherwise but still don't like it.
[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 year ago

Remember when conservatives said they’d lose with dignity and respect? And that the democrats would have lost their minds….

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Projection. It's always projection.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Oldest "trick" in the book. Just deny that you actually lost.

Like trump saying we'd never hear from him if he lost. Nobody with more that half a functioning brain cell thought that was true.

[-] mmagod@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

yet another glaring example of why i'm not willing to meet these ingrates halfway

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Almost any group is capable of having extremists who are willing to do something stupid. Being stupid as a response to extremists being idiots is exactly how divisions grow.

[-] mmagod@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

true. but quite frankly, if someone can't at their very core agree to the 'golden rule', what other option is there? a functioning society is better off being divided against people like that.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

You want to be equated to the most extreme people who share your beliefs?

[-] mmagod@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

a belief that they should treat others the way they'd want to be treated?

this is probably a trick question so i don't think I'd answer it correctly

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Why am I not the least bit surprised? The fascist right wing want their orange jesus even if people have to die.

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Their first move when Trumpy is punished somehow is routinely to threaten violence against individuals or just in general.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The incident happened just a day after Bellows, a Democrat, ruled former President Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot next year.

When officers arrived, they found no one at the house, and they checked the exterior of the property as well as the interior at the request of Bellows, who was not at home at the time.

Bellows' decision followed a first-of-its-kind ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court last week that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution bars Trump from holding office again because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Bellows’ office said her decision would not be enforced until the courts weigh in, “given the compressed timeframe, the novel constitutional questions involved, the importance of this case, and impending ballot preparation deadlines.”

He also called Bellows "a former ACLU attorney, a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has decided to interfere in the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden."

Trump had demanded Bellows, a former state senator, recuse herself from the case, arguing she was too partisan and prejudiced because she had called the Jan. 6 attack an “insurrection.”


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[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Trump had demanded Bellows, a former state senator, recuse herself from the case, arguing she was too partisan and prejudiced because she had called the Jan. 6 attack an “insurrection.”

That is hilarious. She ruled that way because she thinks the J 6 coup attempt was an insurrection, but she should recuse herself because she said the J 6 coup attempt was an insurrection.

Thankfully I'm not in her situation, so i can't judge her actions, but I do wonder whether it would be better not to give the perp the satisfaction of publication.

I can imagine someone jizzing their pants over this article and their little stunt.

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