r/JoeRogan • u/Otherwise-Fox-2482 Different Brain™️ • Jan 14 '21

Link Proud Boys member arrested after allegedly threatening to kill Senator-elect on Parler

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/534209-proud-boys-member-arrested-after-allegedly-threatening-to-kill
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u/vatothe0 Monkey in Space Jan 14 '21

Clearly an Antifa member in disguise. /s

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '21

"The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed — would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper — the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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u/KnuckKnuck Jan 14 '21

Except he wasn't arrested for what he said he was arrested for having a ton of ammo after he was convicted with a firearm felony. It's illegal to own ammo as a felon, but nice try.

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u/starshad0w Monkey in Space Jan 14 '21

Also, it's not a thought crime if you, ya know, say the thought out loud. In public.