This is the offending tweet:
Evidently Twitter has decided that mentioning use of lethal force to defend your life and home (legal in all 50 states, but especially in Texas, a castle doctrine state) is forbidden. Or, more likely, the left-wing “duh, you don’t need to worry, because there’s only a 7% chance home invaders will commit violence!” troll reported it as a “threat” and Twitter just automatically suspends accounts over mere reports.
I have appealed.
Hey, can someone forward this to Elon Musk?
Tags: Castle doctrine, Crime, defensive gun use, Guns, Media Watch, self-defense, Twitter
I can’t help with this since I don’t have a twitter acct. But I’m thinking your Accounts Elon Musk Should Restore (March 25) post might have ‘triggered’ the twitter Karen’s as well?
Good luck with the appeal!
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“duh, you don’t need to worry, because there’s only a 7% chance home invaders will commit violence!”
As I pointed out to one of those twits, that makes the risk of violence FAR higher than the risk of serious damage from catching Covid.
But we shut down the country over that level of risk.
I said almost exactly the same thing in a tweet two years ago. I’m still banned. But I will still shoot the intruder.
The path of wisdom, for ohsoverymany reasons is not to have a record out there in public for things like this. If you think you won’t hear the words used thrown up against you in the course of any criminal or civil proceedings, you would be wrong. They’ll get it in under “Mindset”, and your lawyers will happily tote up even more hours defending you against the claim that you’re a dangerous madman who’s always wanted to kill someone under the color of law…
Best to just smile and shut up, while gritting teeth.
As an ex-crimdef lawyer, I think that what Kirk says above is 100% true and correct. “Shut up and win” is not dumb.
But, if we all shut up and allow them to convince the world that what we truly believe is anathema, we lose in a much larger sense.
(P.S. For a Twitter appeal, you will need to show that you didn’t actually post that tweet, or that there is another simple meaning to what you said that their algorithm missed. They will never allow an appeal based on an argument about the morality of a position.)
Congratulations! You have been accepted (honored) by being rejected.
Who (What) do you think is cuddling the Karen that turned you off?
When the time comes, Mozambique. Just sayin’. Survival is the best revenge.
Twitter is irrelevant.
The problem is that you said explicitly that you would kill the intruder, instead of using just the minimum force against him to stop him being an intruder. The implied violent desire towards a probably marginalised intruder is the real sin here. I suspect you will lose your appeal..
Never hit the “Delete” button! Never accept their terms for what is acceptable.
bobby b makes a point (above) that I have made directly with people, you can tell me your opinion all you want, I will STILL act as my own best adviser.
7% that you will be harmed may seem like a small chance to a lefty, but I will opt for 100% safe over 93% not harmed all day every day.
In my sunset days at Twitter, before BigTechFascists destroyed Parler, as I created an account there, it was EYE-OPENING to see, as I set my follows, HOW MANY people Twitter had (up to that point) banned. I was u aware that it had been as extensive and wide ranging as it was.
Twitter, minus an all-out takeover and restructuring isn’t worth fighting for. Yeah, many center-right posters make incredibly good points and it garners much media links and attention, the platform doesn’t deserve the logic that remains there. Glad I left them.
IF some high-follow capital C commenters delete their accounts, the intolerant there will simply demonize any alternative revealing (again!) how unpleasant they and their world is.
Your post was personalized and aimed at a specific person. What Kirk and Bobby B said is exactly right and the way to thread that needle, I think, is to depersonalize and de-emotionalize the argument. We can’t stop pushing back against the idiots. But the all caps personalization does make it look more threatening than an argument. So something like: “Don’t try that in Texas – you break into an occupied home here and you’re likely to find yourself dead.”
Now you’re just offering friendly advice.
I think that the Twitter staff is arbitrarily banning accounts. I was banned for something very stupid. I was responding to a post by Larry Corriea (author) and I said something like “Don’t forget the white trash elves”. One of his characters is a “white trash elf”. I can’t reinstate my account to delete the text unless i give them my phone number. I refuse. so i am perpetually locked out. i’ve gone to their help desk no less than 10 times. explaining my problem. I should be able to restore without my phone number. It’s interesting because, my prior tweet right before the right trash elf was responding to someone about abortion. I don’t think that tweet was bannable but i think i triggered someone.
i think that they are trying to drive down accounts to stop the musk purchase.
And realize that the lying statistic that “only 7% of home invasions (are or include?) violent is only possible if the statistics conflate residential burglaries of empty houses with invasions of occupied residences.
Forcible invasions of occupied residences are FAR more likely to be violent, or require a violent defense.
This tweet directly violates the Twitter policy quoted to you and the post is still up and the user still tweeting vile.
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