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Oh interpretation. How I loathe thee. It was the bane of my English class experience.

You're absolutely right that moderators bias is part of the equation. I was trying to make a delineation between actionable and desirable. Afaik the FBI only looks into and responds to direct actionable threats. My personal stance is that these comments are ugly but I'd only remove them if they fell into that category in which the FBI would take notice.

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It's funny you mention English class. I've often wondered if people reading too much into things, seeing patterns where there aren't any, or thinking there's some grand design happening is in-part caused by all the reaching and looking for hidden meaning we've been taught to do from English classes.

Don't take this hunch too seriously. I have no way to prove it and it's only food for thought.

The fact that there are scholarly critical analysis approaches other than authorial intent means that there will be some misinterpretation of tweets.

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