Walsh, like most vicious, right wing, Twitter users, understands well the system’s ability to spread viewpoints, and even hate without consequences, but most of the right wing racists do so anonymously, like the cowardly cockroaches they are.
Normally they don’t threaten murder, and hardly ever do so, to my knowledge, with their real names. Twitter does nothing to stop this, any more than it does to stop misogynists trolls who reply to women’s postings by threatening to find their homes, rape them and cut their heads off.
This is one big reason why all I normally use Twitter for is as a news feed. I would no more think of communicating to someone I know than I would setting my hair on fire.
Fortunately for us, however, Walsh really is a moron, and fails to grasp a really important point: once something is on Twitter, it’s on the Internet forever. He apparently thinks he can avoid further problems by simply deleting the Tweet.
Stupid. I hope he enjoys his visit from the US Secret Service. He just advocated assassinating the President of the United States. While I doubt he has the courapge to do it himself–Republican racists rarely do–he is more than willing to stir up some mental ammo-sexual with a gun, instead of a dick, to do the dirty work for him.
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