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145 points

Cool. So fucking arrest him. He’s a public figure that knowingly and willingly endangered an entire population. Throw the book at his big fat eyelined face.

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I’m not sure there is anything illegal about making up these stories.

Edit: All these down votes are just wishful thinking. JD Vance is a piece of shit, but he hasn’t done anything illegal. (That’s not to say he hasn’t done anything wrong, because he totally has.)

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35 points

Yelling “Fire!” in a crowded venue is not protected under Free Speech.

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Name the criminal statute he should be charged with violating.

Agreed that he likely does not have a 1st amendment defense. But you still need a specific criminal statute to charge him with. I am unaware of any that he has likely violated with his xenophobic remarks

Demagoguery that targets a marginalized group is an American tradition. It is unlikely that he committed any crime

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Sure. But this is not that.

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This isn’t even close to the other, actual stochastic terrorism they’ve done before.

If they were going to get charged for it, it shouldn’t be this one.

Now, whoever runs the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire account, that feels like an actual crime.

The cat thing should disqualify him as president because he’s blatantly lying. But it’s not a crime.

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Yelling “Fire!” in a crowded venue is not protected under Free Speech.

I know that’s the famous example, but you’re actually wrong. It’s only not protected if there’s no fire, the person yelling it believes there is no fire, and the person yelling it is doing so to cause a panic or imminent lawless action. Speech protections in the US are extremely broad, and most of the exact lines and contours have been defined in court, often in cases involving the ACLU, the KK, or both (specifically in the form of the ACLU defending the KKK, which is where many of the lines as regards protests were determined).

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19 points

Why did everyone believe this obvious fake news?

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19 points

because a bunch of assholes repeated it.

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39 points

everyone

everyone didn’t believe it. those primed to buy conspiracy bullshit sure did tho.

huh.

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19 points

Conspiracy bullshit and racism.

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1 point

I like conspiracies. They’re fun…this one was too far to fast of a stretch lol

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28 points

People will believe anything about people they already hate.

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1 point

oof, true and fucked up and sad

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2 points

Remember the Central Park 5. People were bloodthirsty

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My pet theory is that it’s a reaction to the couch fucker thing. The left made up and ran with a story, and this is them trying to do the same thing. Obvious problem being that it’s racist, dangerous, and not funny, but that’s the right for you.

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