ABigGuy4U
12hr ago
What I like about Hegseth is that he’s like a military guy from 2007 that got trapped in an ice flow and is just now being unfrozen, Encino Man style. I hear nu-metal playing softly in the distance whenever he speaks.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
A couple of things.
- Plenty of IRA fighters were being arrested, imprisoned, or killed during shootouts with the army and the police. To the point that most of the IRA outside of South Armagh had to reform into a less effective cell structure and pretty drastically limit the scale of their attacks.
- If things ever got as bad as Northern Ireland during the Troubles, all the neat technological stuff becomes much less effective. Part of why these guys usually get caught is that there are very few of them and the government can dedicate massive resources to each case. If America was having several attacks per week, no-go zones in multiple cities that the police can’t even go into without support from the army, a subset of which even the army has trouble getting into, and a hostile or fearful populace that isn’t going to assist investigations without being forced, Palantir widgets and drones aren’t going to be nearly as useful.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Jerusalem Post says Israel is investigating that particular angle. But it doesn’t say if they’ve found anything specific.
I think you may be confusing me with some other posters and I resent the implication.
Edit: sorry I misunderstood and was a bit snappy here. Consequences of living in a constant state of paranoia.
Do you have any theory that explains these peculiarities?
Not at the moment. The timing with the other two recent incident seems odd to me, but I can’t place any kind of connection.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
- His and his wife’s throats being cut does not seem consistent with the type of crime it allegedly is. Half-out-of-their-minds meth junkies committing a family annihilation crime of passion during a domestic disturbance aren’t usually that precise. 70 stab wounds a piece I would buy, but not throat-cutting.
- The police and the media (People magazine specifically) announced that the son did it way too fast. People Magazine would be gambling with a libel lawsuit in any other circumstance. I have never seen the suspect of a murder announced that fast, especially not for a case involving a celebrity.
- The fact that the daughter’s first instinct was to call a neighbor (Billy Crystal), rather than the police. The fact that the daughter immediately told the police that her brother probably did it, White House Farm style.
- Trump’s weird and kind of disturbing post about the murders.
It seems fishy to me.
You’re lucky I didn’t post my 40 page schizo ramble about Rob Reiner’s death. But anyway, If you sit around and wait for “respectable media outlets” to tell you what’s going on, you’ll never get anywhere.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
Mass shooters generally tend to kill themselves, engage the police in order to be killed, or surrender to the police. They don’t usually flee while avoiding security cameras. That’s what makes me think this was probably political.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
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.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
Last big one was Robert Bowers I think, who attacked a synagogue in Pennsylvania. That was years ago though.
ABigGuy4U
2d 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
4d ago
That guy was a person of interest but he’s subsequently been released. The shooter is still at large.
ABigGuy4U
4d 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
6d 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
6d ago
The problem is, Piers Morgan’s audience is mostly going to be dead or in nursing homes in five to ten years.
ABigGuy4U
6d 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
6d 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
6d 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.
Venezuelan oil isn’t for today, it’s for fifty years from now. The Ghawar and North Sea oil fields are drying up rapidly. Pretty soon the two major sources of oil on the planet are going to be Venezuela and Siberia. Sure Venezuelan oil is heavy sour crude, but when that’s all you can get it will taste like mana from heaven. When you are a state, you have to think on longer time frames than the individual. Fifty years from now might as well be next Thursday.
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