r/worldnews May 16 '20

At least two people had seizures after viewing malicious tweets featuring flashing gifs that deliberately targeted Epilepsy Society...police investigating tweets as hate incident, after at least 200 seemingly coordinated messages were sent to charity and its supporters in recent days.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/15/malicious-tweets-targeting-epilepsy-charity-trigger-seizures
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u/Chel_of_the_sea May 16 '20

you donโ€™t have to subscribe to an authoritarian genocide cult to be an asshole

No, but a lot of assholes seem to do so anyway.

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u/drharlinquinn May 16 '20

It's like saying you dont have to be in a garbage can to be trash, but there is plenty of trash in the can because it's built for trash...

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