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It's not a death threat, you're just unfamiliar with 90s hip-hop (news.ycombinator.com)
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Possibly the worst defense yet of Garry Tan's tweeting of death threats towards San Francisco's elected legislature. In yet more evidence for my "HN is a Nazi bar" thesis, this take is from an otherwise-respected cryptographer and security researcher. Choice quote:

sorry, but 2Pac is now dad music, I don't make the rules

Best sneer so far is this comment, which links to this Key & Peele sketch about violent rap lyrics in the context of gang violence.

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And this is why whenever I send non-threats to people I oppose politically, I prefer black metal or WP skinhead lyrics.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Silmänkantamattomiin jää silmät sokaisee Viima täynnä vimmaa viiltää läpi käsien Vuoret ympäröivät saalistaan, niin vailla uskoa Mistä voimme täällä elää? Mistä löydämme tien eteenpäin?

Ha! That put you in your place.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd feel pretty threatened if someone suddenly began messaging me in Finnish if not for the fact that I am Finnish myself.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait that is Finnish? ;)

I just copy pasted a piece of metal text which I knew I couldn't understand when I heard it. (Did check if first if it doesn't shout something vile however) Was worried somebody would go 'that isn't black metal that is pagan metal!' and I would lose my metal card.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Being worried that someone calls you out for misidentifying a metal subgenre is a metal fan staple. In any case Moonsorrow is definitely at least BM adjacent and a lot of black metal musicians are pagan for… varyingly good reasons.

Did check if first if it doesn’t shout something vile however

Hmm dunno, "The ice blinds your eyes as far as the eye can see, the wind furiously slashes through hands, the mountains surround their prey…" Sounds pretty violent 😉

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago

Sure, a bit violent, but I worried it might be mega racist, not lyrics about covering people in mountains of snowballs.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 5 points 9 months ago

Poetic description of normal weather in Finland.