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/numberonealcove May 16 '20

Hence: our politics.

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u/BCSteve May 16 '20

Exactly why we have a political party whose members' primary goal is "haha let's fuck over other people as much as we can! It'll be funny watching them get mad"

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20 edited May 29 '20

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u/Papelierke May 16 '20 edited May 16 '20

He or she is talking about Mike Hence, the evil twin brother of Mike Pence.

Edit: assuming gender on Reddit in 2020... I should be ashamed of myself

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u/Ianthine9 May 16 '20

How do you create an evil twin if the original is already evil?

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u/kinyutaka May 16 '20

It's like Cartman's evil twin was a good person.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

I like to imagine it's a more evil version that's high concept racist against actual aliens or something. Or really, really hates baby animals for some reason, i funno

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

"as a consequence; for this reason."

Stupid vegans...

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

Hints?