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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by AnthonyMouse on Saturday October 30, 2021 @03:50AM (#29046891)
Cute, but trivially falsifiable. Wearing a Freddy Krueger mask on Halloween doesn't make you Freddy Krueger.

And to the extent that it is true, it implies that we should stop using Nazis as the boogeyman. Because trolls are going to use whatever will get a rise out of people. Best not have it be this that they summon up.

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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by gm3dmo on Saturday October 30, 2021 @04:32AM (#29047094)
>Cute, but trivially falsifiable. Wearing a Freddy Krueger mask on Halloween doesn't make you Freddy Krueger.

That is true enough for most, but not all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gonzalez_(spree_kille...

Daniel clearly could not separate the Freddy mask from fiction and made it a tragic reality.

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