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posted by janrinok on Friday October 04 2019, @02:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the some-people-just-can't-take-a-joker dept.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-monitor-violent-online-threats-light-joker-premiere/story?id=66031356

The FBI has received tips of threatening posts on social media calling for "unspecific mass shootings" linked to the release of the new psychological thriller, "Joker," starring Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix that will hit theaters this Friday, according to a joint intelligence bulletin obtained by ABC News.

These threats have been circling online platforms since at least May 2019, but give no information indicating specific or credible threats to particular locations or venues, the bulletin said.

Some of the threats did contain references to a primarily online group called the involuntary celibate community, or Incels, and a subset that refers to itself as "Clowncels." However, the intelligence community doesn't necessarily regard the group as a whole as a violent one.

"While many Incels do not engage in violence, some within the community encourage or commit violent acts as retribution for perceived societal wrongdoing against them," the bulletin said. "Some Incel attackers have claimed inspiration from previous mass shooters."


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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday October 04 2019, @06:09PM (4 children)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Friday October 04 2019, @06:09PM (#902724)

    It's like how every kind of animal has its own "group word". Murder of crows, pack of dogs, implausibility of gnus (I didn't make that last one up, honestly)

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 04 2019, @06:47PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday October 04 2019, @06:47PM (#902735) Journal
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @07:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @07:47PM (#902757)

    It's called a "collective noun".

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday October 04 2019, @09:36PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 04 2019, @09:36PM (#902810) Journal

      Collective nouns, like:

      A pack of cigarettes.
      A dozen of eggs.

      But what about other collectives:

      A gallon of milk?
      A pound of butter?

      A deception of Lawyers?
      A corruption of Politicians?
      A table of Cereal Killers?

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      People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
  • (Score: 2) by dry on Saturday October 05 2019, @04:11AM

    by dry (223) on Saturday October 05 2019, @04:11AM (#902930) Journal

    No, James Lipton did back in 1968 in his book, An Exultation of Larks, at least according to https://veneryterms.blogspot.com/2014/04/whence-wildebeest-implausibility-of-gnus.html [blogspot.com]