ABigGuy4U
7d ago
Last big one was Robert Bowers I think, who attacked a synagogue in Pennsylvania. That was years ago though.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
Sure, given that the targets seem to be affiliated with academia, that would suggest left-wing to me. I don’t think a right-wing shooter would have even heard about these people.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor and Nuclear Physicist, Nuno Loureiro, was shot to death last night in his own home. Loureiro was reportedly Jewish and somewhat vocally pro-Israel. No suspect is in custody. I cannot help but think that this might be related to the shooting at Brown University last week. My knowledge of the geography of the northeast United States is limited, but I believe the two locations are at most a couple of hours apart. The shooting at Brown seems to have targeted the class of a professor of Israel-US relations.
I think we are are now approaching five left wing domestic terrorist attacks in as many months. When I suggested we were on the verge of slipping into another Days of Rage after the Israeli embassy attack, everyone here pooh-poohed the idea. But my concerns have only deepened since.
EDIT: the authorities are now investigating the two matters as connected. I am at least vindicated for thinking they might be.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
That guy was a person of interest but he’s subsequently been released. The shooter is still at large.
ABigGuy4U
10d ago
I wonder if this shooting is connected to the one that happened in Australia this morning. The timing seems suspicious and we haven’t heard anything about the Rhode Island suspect.
But in America, the different ethnic groups are held in tension with one another. In Europe there’s one mostly contiguous ethno-religious block waiting in the wings to seize power.
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
Now, for Europe, which has a much smaller share of migrants
Europe is in a much, much worse position when you consider the ages involved. The Muslims are disproportionately young adults and children, and the middle aged and elderly dying people are disproportionately white.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
The problem is, Piers Morgan’s audience is mostly going to be dead or in nursing homes in five to ten years.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
Pretextual stops are ok, but you need to be able to point to some correct ostensible reason for a search and arrest. Like for example, a random McDonalds volunteer totally recognizing the killer based on one blurry frame of video. That said, your ostensible reason has to be real, you can’t just make it the fuck up.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
Well, the whole reason for the initial bourgeois revolutions in England, America and France was that the ruling aristocracy had devolved from warrior poets into a bunch of incompetent inbred pajama boys.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
You need probable cause to actually search and arrest someone. If all your actual reasons for arresting and searching them are illegal, then the evidence collected during the search is illegal.
I don’t think he was necessarily framed (in the sense that I think he might have actually done it). But I think the media was genuinely being tone deaf and stupid about what the coverage would be, like they always are. They were equally tone deaf and stupid in the way they portrayed the victim.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
Robinson was like Timothy McVeigh, he made some nominal attempts to escape, but was overall resigned to being captured and didn’t make a particularly serious attempt to get away with it. Otherwise I don’t think he would have admitted to it in his discord group. Mangione seems to have actually developed a pretty detailed exfiltration plan which makes his later bumbling around odd.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
That’s because those people were morons who didn’t know anything about Ukraine’s actual force composition. They thought Ukraine had roughly the same military strength as Latvia.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
younger Taiwanese people are increasingly open to reunification or some sort of a new deal
And one thing I don’t think I’ve seen mentioned here yet is that the Chinese sympathizers are most densely concentrated in Taiwan’s own military forces
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
It’s been so long since I watched it, I might not even be thinking of the right show. But it’s a young kid who genuinely thinks that peaches are an artificial manufactured good because they’ve never actually seen a peach tree.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
you saw what that led to in Russia
It seems to have led to Russia winning the war.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
I don’t know about better, but they definitely have more. They are probably the only country other than America that could do 2000 PGM strikes a day for two weeks straight.
I mean, what's the theory here, that the police already knew who he was and where he was and made up a fictitious person to take credit for the arrest then inexplicably decided to do a U-turn
Yes! I think they probably traced him from New York all the way to the McDonalds with some kind of illegal-for domestic-use Palantir-type monitoring software that’s probably embedded on every cell phone in the nation. They interdicted him there, planted the evidence on him (the arresting officer that handled the backpack “accidentally” switched her body camera off while she was handling the backpack). Then they needed to write this up in some way that wouldn’t get the case thrown out of court so they ginned up this McDonald’s employee whistleblower so they had a reason for actually being there and finding him. I say this as someone who thinks what he did is morally repugnant, by the way. I think what Brian Kohbargher did was horrible too. But I’m seeing worrying signs that these types of surveillance back doors are now regularly being deployed against American citizens. It always starts being used on scumbags, then five years later it’s being used on everyone else.
ABigGuy4U
13d ago
I don't know why 2020's America, a society which produces mass material prosperity on a grander scale than any other in human history
Everything is cheaper and easier to access now. Except food. And housing. And cars. And gas. At least electronic gewgaws are cheaper... oh wait that’s over now.
ABigGuy4U
13d ago
They weren’t able to match the DNA on the sheath until after they had already caught him using sketchily collected cell phone data. Hence the plea: if all that stuff got thrown out the state’s case is screwed, if it stays in the defendant is screwed. No one wanted to risk it.
He’s definitely from Portugal, but he is allegedly Jewish (according to Laura Loomer). IIRC Laura Loomer can get a bit loopy in theory and interpretation, but her reporting on basic facts is usually pretty good.
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