Twitter suspends Alex Jones for urging people to keep “battle rifles” ready

Re:Twitter suspends Alex Jones for urging people to keep “ba... by benmmurphy on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:12PM (#17779437)

the second part of that quote makes it much less worse. 'everything ready at their bedsides' implies resisting an armed attack as opposed to going out and hurting other people. previously i'd only seen the 'battle rifles' ready part of the quote in the media. though, possibly the rest of the context is probably worse for jones :/

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Re:Twitter suspends Alex Jones for urging people to keep “ba... by licyeus on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:31PM (#17779499)

Full context is available in a tweet linked in the article[1], but Jones states "We're under attack and you know that and you've pointed out that mainstream media is the enemy. But now it's time to act on the enemy... They're coming and they're coming and they're coming. They think they can really take down America. This is it." before urging his followers to have rifles ready.

[1] https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1029477795561463808

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Re:Twitter suspends Alex Jones for urging people to keep “ba... by lylecubed on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:20PM (#17779461)

> though, possibly the rest of the context is probably worse for jones :/

If the rest of the context was worse for jones, the press would have used it.

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