Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) posted a tweet with a grim message Friday, noting that he was "not suicidal" in response to a commenter worried he could potentially face threats or other repercussions for his work on the disclosure of the Epstein Files.
Wild to me that these people think this will save the. They need to learn that a text social media post, or a letter, or a signed affidavit (or whatever) is near useless to protect via dissuasion.
Make a goddamn video post. Professionally shot, get your/a psych to be in it with you, get close family and friends in it. Make the videos creative commons so that news agencies have full rights to use them, post to multiple services, and make many versions of the video.
Any group considering your murder knows about blowback and they surely weigh the risks. If you have a crappy 48 word post on Twitter as your only protection they know the death will be easily framed as a suicide by legions of happy-to-oblige media services that’ll repeat the official findings read on video by the coronor/investogator/official, or audio played on podcast, and easily sell the false narrative. But if there are a bunch of high-quality widely available and free to news networks - its going to weigh a much higher risk for them.
Tweets and skeets are a megaphone based on spur-of-the-moment thoughts.
Large scale media campaigns have time and manpower to strategize angles, uptake and decide next steps.
The more we learn about bureaucrats with paper crowns, the more they’re revealed as deeply insecure children who, like the rest of us, are only pretending to know how to be grownups and really just doing random shit most of the time.
I don’t think any more thought went into this than that cat with a newspaper deciding to buy a boat.
Yeah, possibly I have read too much into a shower thought that became a Twitter tweet… or whatever the fuck they’re called now.
I was really thinking of not just this guy, but the Boeing whistleblower and Virginia Giuffre, who also seemed to think a small text post or mentions to friends that they’re not suicidal would save them.
Yep. Trump is the only one who gets to declare whether tweets are jokes or foreign policy. Oh look a domestic policy that will get you jailed. Or maybe jk, who knows!
Wild to me that these people think this will save the. They need to learn that a text social media post, or a letter, or a signed affidavit (or whatever) is near useless to protect via dissuasion.
Make a goddamn video post. Professionally shot, get your/a psych to be in it with you, get close family and friends in it. Make the videos creative commons so that news agencies have full rights to use them, post to multiple services, and make many versions of the video.
Any group considering your murder knows about blowback and they surely weigh the risks. If you have a crappy 48 word post on Twitter as your only protection they know the death will be easily framed as a suicide by legions of happy-to-oblige media services that’ll repeat the official findings read on video by the coronor/investogator/official, or audio played on podcast, and easily sell the false narrative. But if there are a bunch of high-quality widely available and free to news networks - its going to weigh a much higher risk for them.
Tweets and skeets are a megaphone based on spur-of-the-moment thoughts.
Large scale media campaigns have time and manpower to strategize angles, uptake and decide next steps.
The more we learn about bureaucrats with paper crowns, the more they’re revealed as deeply insecure children who, like the rest of us, are only pretending to know how to be grownups and really just doing random shit most of the time.
I don’t think any more thought went into this than that cat with a newspaper deciding to buy a boat.
Yeah, possibly I have read too much into a shower thought that became a Twitter tweet… or whatever the fuck they’re called now.
I was really thinking of not just this guy, but the Boeing whistleblower and Virginia Giuffre, who also seemed to think a small text post or mentions to friends that they’re not suicidal would save them.
Yep. Trump is the only one who gets to declare whether tweets are jokes or foreign policy. Oh look a domestic policy that will get you jailed. Or maybe jk, who knows!