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>>Strato+(OP)
> Tan, for his part, apologized over the weekend, noting that his post was a reference to a Tupac Shakur lyric

Ah, so if it's a quote, it doesn't matter, because even though you've decided when to use them, they're not "your words"

Thanks, going to publish press releases with Cannibal Corpse lyrics going forward.

>>badreq+z8
The fact that it is a quote (which I didn't know) moves it out of the extremely disturbing category and into the extremely cringe & very disappointing category.

SF politics is a clown show on all sides - Garry has lost serious credibility that he could play some part in cleaning it up. I think he knows that.

>>bhawks+Ue
To me, it's extremely disturbing that someone would consider this whole thing as extremely disturbing in the first place.

Whether people in the US are extremely oversenstive to tweets and words, or that the tweets and words have the power to suddenly make regular people hateful and violent - neither of those states are normal.

Either that, or the country really is a few Twitter sparks away from civil war, which again would... not be a normal state of things.

>>TeMPOr+7u
Posting that you want a group of city councilors to die is not normal behavior. It's not normal when sober, it's not normal on alcohol, it's not normal for any functioning member of society. Anyone saying these things is disturbing. The fact that someone who a number of people believe is intelligent and worth listening to would say such things is extremely disturbing.

>>Araina+Kw
What are you talking about? Political effigies are a whole thing, and not just in America: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/giant-trump-e...

>>rayine+Bk1
This is the UK - do you have a US example? Because I know that doing this with current POTUS will get you a visit from Secret Service.

>>r00fus+Ve2
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/los-ange...

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/trump-pinata-school/

https://am870theanswer.com/all/la-antifa-group-hangs-trump-i...

https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/donald-trump-effigy-hangs...

https://www.coloradoan.com/picture-gallery/news/2021/01/01/f...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3500960/I-hate-Trum...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/31620818443

https://www.newsweek.com/protest-trump-doll-guillotine-outsi...

And that's just the last president. If you search, you'll find plenty of similar examples for Obama and Bush too. Going further back than that will probably be harder to find records for, but yeah we have a long tradition of wishing death on our politicians and expressing that quite loudly. And almost all the time, it's certainly legal, whether or not the local community is keen on it varies.