Ben Stiller bombarded with angry posts after Knicks tweet mistaken for correspondents’ dinner shooting rant

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ben-stiller-knicks-trump-correspondents-dinner-shooting-b2965377.html

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Rothe@piefed.social · 10 pts · 135d

What a bunch of pearl clutching cowards. But then again its twitter, it is all manufactured right wing outrage.

JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 135d (4 replies)

Man, if Stiller just added a tiny bit of context by tagging Knicks, none of that would've happened. I just can't imagine sending something out so vague and open ended and not expecting it to be misunderstood.

Not to excuse the MAGA stans from collectively losing their mind at a tweet.

Edit: on second thought, had the assassin been successful, it would've been a based af tweet

Chozo@fedia.io · 18 pts · 135d

I just can't imagine sending something out so vague and open ended and not expecting it to be misunderstood.

Imagine reading something so vague and open-ended and assuming it's 100% related to the thing you feel strongly about for the time being, until tomorrow's distraction comes along.

That's MAGA.

13igTyme@piefed.social · 15 pts · 135d (2 replies)

The second sentence says he'd been posting all evening about the knicks. I haven't looked at Twitter since 2012, but wouldn't the context be provided by his other tweets?

Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 135d (1 reply)

The fuck is stiller still using twitter for? Get it together guy ..

workerONE@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d

I heard people use X now