• cannedtuna
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    5 days ago

    When confronted by troopers, Highlander allegedly said “he only made the statements in these chats to be inflammatory” and that “he was ‘trolling’ and ‘rage baiting’ because he found it highly amusing,” according to the criminal complaint.

    It’s just a joke bro

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      5 days ago

      wait im confused - so what images they found then? lololol

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        5 days ago

        Sounds like they did find images as he was sharing them on discord and looking them up with discords AI (which I wasn’t aware was a thing), but when the police went to pick him up he used the old “I was only joking” defense.

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      5 days ago

      Same approach used by right wing agitators.

      “Just a joke bro…” “I’m just talking about fucking kids/supporting the KKK/discussing the positive sides of slavery… and supporting Trump… you know as a joke…”