Fedposting

We've all said edgy or offensive things online, being an attention-seeking dickhead is too much fun, it cannot be denied. Making threats especially, can be loads of fun. Using made-up, extremely violent torture techniques as threats online is always good fun, everyone knows you aren't really going to do it, so creativity and extremity is rewarded when you engage in verbal warfare. However, if your threats are constant and detailed, some might suspect you're going too far or that your butthurtedness is outweighing the funny side. Especially when it comes to threats against celebrities, politicians, or those in the public eye, it's understood that if you want to avoid a knock at the door; you make it clear you're having a joke. Nicknamed "fedposting", if someone seems like they're one bad-day away from taking a gun to show-and-tell, it's safe to assume they're a federal agent hoping to trick you into admitting you're a threat.

Fedposting, also known as "glowposting", comes in many forms but threats against public citizens is the most common fed-post. There are many types of fed-posts, so let this page introduce you to the art of the fed-post, how to write one yourself, and a collection of those unfortunate enough to either be caught in a fed-trap, or those who fed-posted themselves.

Origins

The etymology of the word, fedposting, started on /pol/ like all dumb internet slang usually does. The neets of 4chan's smartest board believe the government tricks netizens into becoming domestic terrorists. Supposedly, their goal is to demonize perceived threats by portraying them as more dangerous than they truly are. If some spotty, fat neckbeard is tricked by an imageboard into shooting up their local 7/11; the government can blame internet radicalization, guns, and white men as threats that need to be under stricter rules. So FBI agents befriend purposeless basement-dwellers, and convince them to use automatic weapons, with specific attachments the government is keen to ban. To the rest of the world, this is clearly a conspiracy theory, and a very silly one at that, but to Americunts; this is very real.

If you see a post along the lines of "Hey fellow based memers, anyone want to bomb the White House?", it's a fed-post. An FBI agent is paid more than you'll ever be, to write these out-of-touch bait posts in the hopes some chud will be dumb enough to bite, and respond. This is fedposting, the new frontier of entrapment. If they get someone to respond to them, they wait until you either say something explicit enough to be a threat, at which point they either arrest you, or wait until you go out and commit the crime, at which point they claim you were "on their radar" and use you as an example as to why the government needs more control.

Do It Yourself

Here's the funny thing about fedposting; it's not exclusively a government activity. If your friend starts spending too much time on the Daily Stormer, or a family member falls into a Facebook rabbit hole, they might start expressing views, opinions, or threats, that read like an FBI agent wrote it. Thus fedposting is not just a government trap, but also a style of writing, going "mask-off", saying how you truly feel without a care in the world for what the consequences might be.

One example is /r9k/, who due to their majority of hopeless, talentless 20-something freaks; has been the target of many a fedpost. It has become so hard to discern the difference between an overpaid government-worker, and a jaded neet, that the robots of /r9k/ have started referring to anything violent or suspicious as a fedpost. Therefore anyone can write a fedpost.

Start with a friendly greeting.
Immeditaly refer to a violent activity.
Have no subtly, use plain English and outline your plan/intention as clearly as possible.
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PROFIT

Notable Fed-posters

Whether they were tricked by the sweet, seductive words of a federal agent, or arrested for beating the FBI at their own games; here's the list of idiots not notable enough to devote a page to, but funny enough to serve as a cautionary tale of what happens when you start to test the 1st Amendment.

Craig Robertson - The King of Fed-posting

Craig Deleeuw Robertson was a 74-year old woodworker who lived in Utah. A devout Trump-fanatic, a mixture of dementia and plain-old Conservative stupidity had convinced Robertson that Trump was some kind of deity sent by God himself to lead the rednecks to salvation. Biden was therefore a monster, a creation of the devil sent to stop Trump from doing God's will. Hearing that Biden would soon be visiting Utah, Robertson went on his public Failbook account, and created some of the funniest Fed-posts you will ever read. His method was simple; use a bright background, make a threat against biden, pepper the post in emojis.

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On the day of Biden's visit authorities made their way to Robertson's house, a good 3 hours or so before Biden would be visiting. The authorities claim they were trying to serve a warrant to Robertson, they'd already heard of him 3 months before when the FBI noticed his truth social posts kept referring to a "presidential assassination". Despite Robertson being immobile, senile, and rather fat, the authorities were so threatened by the old codger that when they thought he might have been reaching for his gun, they open fired, killing him instantly. Given that Robertson never left his house, could barely move, and didn't have a gun on him when the authorities arrived, it's likely that he was killed by "accident". Someone might have shouted "Gun!", and spooked the spooks into firing. Of course, thanks to Robert we know that this was not a mistake, but instead Joe Biden enacting his evil plan to silence any who oppose him.

Robertson puts all other trolls and republicans to shame. His legendary posts will forever be his legacy. This old man made some of the wildest threats against the President of the United States, and used his full legal name the whole time. Godspeed you crazy old bastard.