Maybe it did happen, but admiral Patrick did nothing to convince us and given the whole issue surrounds him secretly doing shit, I'm less inclined to believe it.

Trusting the victims and healthy scepticism are always at odds with each other, but in this case AdmiralPatrick has already been caught in bad faith arguments before where others have had receipts and he had nothing.

It wouldn't entirely suprise me if some nutcase actually did send him some death threat, but in this instance I'm not going to just take his word for it.

I don't think anyone trusts a word they say without legitimate evidence. The user has been shown to act unethical and make things up.

You mean the one they baited for maximum draw to try and DDOS?

One side of the story has evidence. I'll listen to that side.

Uhh… their goodbye post where they lay it out?

You mean the homepage that tries to ddos a lemmy instance if I access it?

Yeah, no idea why I don't want to access that page. /s

You can’t provoke someone in to shooting you than press charges, that’s what this would be like.

That depends entirely on what you mean by "provoke". The only time you can ever shoot someone and not go to jail for it is if you can prove it was self defense, and the threshold to prove self defense can be extremely high, depending on jurisdiction.

And for every other type of offence, doing something illegal in response to someone doing something illegal to you just means you both go to jail. "He did it first!" never even worked in grade school, not sure why you expect it to work as an adult.

Tagged you as "ai simp" a while ago. Seems like you're full of shitty takes. Also... "Than go..." lol

"Lemmy users" is pretty vague.

Unless you are accusing the specific users you're replying to of the crimes you're bringing up, what's the point of responding to them?

I didn't do any of the things you're bringing up. Why would a response asking "lemmy users too look at themselves" be relevant to me?