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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by tgv on Friday April 01, 2022 @06:40AM (#30876829)
No, he wasn't. It's offensive, but the figure of speech "the only good ... is a dead ..." does not call for murder. And offending soldiers is not a hate-crime, AFAIK. The tweeter should have been made to pay a fine to the charity Captain Tom was endorsing.
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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by tonyedgecombe on Friday April 01, 2022 @06:57AM (#30876927)
"burn auld fella" sounds like a call to action to me.
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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by Krollifi on Friday April 01, 2022 @08:03AM (#30877302)
Isn’t he talking about one’s burning in hell which no humans have a say in.
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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by tonyedgecombe on Friday April 01, 2022 @09:26AM (#30877839)
You are correct, I didn't realise he had already died.
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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by smcl on Friday April 01, 2022 @09:31AM (#30877875)
He's very clearly trying to say that Captain Tom is (burning) in hell.
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