In less than 24 hours, Newsweek writer Nina Burleigh managed to embarrass herself not once, not twice, but thrice over a ridiculous tweet where she claimed every person she has ever ‘heard of’ who owned an AR-15 was a mass murderer. Perhaps if she’d take a moment to actually talk to the Americans who own nearly 15,000,000 AR-15s she might have saved herself a whole lot of trouble.
At first, Nina claimed her tweet was clickbait for NRA bots, and now she is saying she ‘assumes’ the more than 4000 people who responded to her stupid tweet aren’t just NRA bots but pro-NRA Russian bots.
1/ In less than 24 hours this tweet got more than 4k replies. I don't read them and I assume the majority are pro @NRA Russian bots. Thanks for stepping up comrades! Ready to be checked by @SecureDemocracy @robhatlabs https://t.co/9HaAcgj2Bt
— Nina Burleigh (@ninaburleigh) November 18, 2018
Comrades, that’s a nice touch. Oh, and we especially like how she tags in two groups who supposedly use some sort of magical algorithm to determine if you’re a bot. Ironically they did once call this editor a bot for tweeting ‘too well’ and using proper grammar.
Not even making that up.
2/ What should interest everyone, whether you're #2ADefenders or not, is why the Russians care. I'll answer for you: A heavily armed and paranoid minority, a Trojan Horse, distrusting fellow Americans, saves them a lot of time, effort and defense money. https://t.co/KWp2Aj78De
— Nina Burleigh (@ninaburleigh) November 18, 2018
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Because Russia wants nothing more than a fully armed America that can defend itself from enemies foreign and domestic.
Holy Hell. Newsweek, come and get your writer, she’s starting to scare the children.
No wonder she’s being ratioed.
Ratioed –
‘Being revealed as an idiot on twitter by having a high ratio of comments to likes and retweets’ https://t.co/ITQ0rGR3cB— MOvember Reagan Fan (@Im_ur_hklbry) November 19, 2018
Well, that's one way to never have to look outside your own bubble and question your assumptions. ?
— Harold Stickeehands (@StickeeNotes) November 19, 2018
NICE TRY BOT pic.twitter.com/pLjA1Cnc7P
— David Edward *blue checkmark* (@_David_Edward) November 19, 2018
She’s onto us!
The "everyone I disagree with is a Russian Bot defense." Pathetic.
— Howard Roark Laughed (@Major_Skidmark) November 19, 2018
It’s all they know at this point.
I'm pretty sure calling all 15-20 million AR-15 owners murderers means you're the paranoid one, sweetcheeks.
— Attila the Honeybun ? says you're a turkey (@TimMansplainsIt) November 19, 2018
Sweetcheeks is almost as good as, ‘Comrade’.
Comrade.
Heh.
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