• xenomor@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Peasant brain mentality.

      If she said, “I’m going to come kill you.” That would be a threat. Her saying, “actions like what you are doing have gotten people like you killed” or even “you deserve to be killed” are just observations, warnings at most, but not threats.

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      24 hours ago

      “You people are next” is a threat based on your own position of power. A politician saying that, yeah that’s a threat. Some random person saying it someone else, not so much.

      If someone has a recording of an ex saying that to them over the phone, the best you’re getting is a restraining order, if you get anything at all.

      Maybe if she said “I’m coming for you next”, then that would have more weight. But now we’re in hypothetical land, so who cares.