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>>etc-ho+(OP)
I was happy to see the story caught that it was Tupac song lyrics, which I see also was picked up in the previous HN discussion. While it's not really laudable behavior, quoting some lyrics that in almost 30 years hindsight are pretty silly is not quite as threatening as people make out. Probably better to stay off social media when drinking all the same.

>>andy99+07
I don't understand why the fact that his words happen to be song lyrics somehow softens the blow. If I wrote to my government representative "go hang yourself with a barbed wire" I'd expect it to be taken seriously as a threat. It doesn't matter that the Gravediggaz originally wrote the lyric.

>>ryandr+o8
That's obviously not a threat. Just like saying "go fuck yourself" isn't a threat of rape.

"Die slow" is pretty ambiguous though.