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Falls apart immediately when they get a warrant for your text messages and find you bragging to whatever human you have a sexual interest in or whatever.

And in general, all these "I'll just say <whatever>" arguments on the Internet will nearly always fall apart when you start backtracking under questioning and changing your story and they pressure you with evidence. Everyone always thinks that they're some kind of perfect sociopathic Patrick Bateman or Heath Ledger's Joker in their mind. You/they are not.

If you are relying on that argument, then they certainly have enough to arrest you and charge you, and the safe bet is that you'll crack.

[Also your argument gets much harder to make if they have you logging in with 2FA from an IP address that can be traced to your house or something like that--very hard for someone to fake that no matter how much fucked up chaos is going on inside Twitter]



Yeah, the better thing to say in this situation is nothing besides, "I want to speak with my lawyer"


Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

But even most people who think they're smart because they watched the video, aren't that smart, and they'll talk.


I prefer this more succinct video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjvdHE1E5eI




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