• Jacobo_Villa_Lobos [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    After being charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, a judge set Boston’s bond at $100,000.

    “I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point,” the judge said.

    I love living in a country that takes mass shootings and terrorism seriously!

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      Love there is no pretext of justice in that judge’s statement. Just straight up saying “some people at the last eyes wide shut party were really uncomfortable so you must pay”

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      Basically every mass shooter is “known to authorities” or “on their radar” and they don’t do shit.

      Someone who doesn’t even own a gun says something they decide is threatening? Time to throw the book at her!

      I swear the media trying to treat this with the same severity as a mass shooting (if anything they’re treating it more serious than a mass shooting. No news outlet had a talking head wearing a 3d printed 9mm pin offering thoughts and prayers) is making me lose my mind. The media is basically trying to say Luigi gives mass shooter vibes. There’s a reason there has been efforts to remove pictures of him, take down posts of his statement, and generally trying to frame him in the same vein as a school shooter.

      Also more proof (as if we needed it) that the bail bond system is solely in place to keep poor people in jail and rich people out.

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        i absolutely think they are going to roll out the same viciousness they used to defend the zionist entity if this nascent class disturbance keeps going

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          Absolutely, you can already see it starting with various outlets rolling out articles on how the CEO was good actually and people like being screwed by health insurance. I have no doubt that they will crack down hard on people supporting Luigi or his actions.

          It’s not like she found an executive’s number or went to an office, she literally just got mad at a service rep over the phone. If someone actually attempts/succeeds in a copycat assassination the response is going to be 1000x worse

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    Headline is incorrect. There’s no evidence that’s the suspect’s catchphrase. That’s what the perpetrator wrote. Assuming that that’s also the suspect’s catchphrase is assuming he’s guilty. I don’t think this qualifies for libel but yet another example of useless journalism.

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        Yeah when I woke up I thought there was a 90% chance that Luigi did it (and in that 90% I include a 30% chance that the official story of him being snitched is false and the feds are doing parallel construction) and 10% chance that this is just a convenient patsy they found to pin it on someone. But the more I think about it, the more that 10% grows to, like, 20%.

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          He’s got patsy energy for sure. It’s the not ditching the gun thing that’s really bothering me columbo, I’ve never even been there and I’m absolutely confident I could dissappear a gun in NYC. Toss it in the river or any random storm drain and they’d have to sift through a big pile of other guns. Seems like something you’d only do if you wanted to get caught, but if that were the case you’d probably confess. Regardless I see absolutely no advantage to us for this guy to be seen as already guilty in the public eye, if he wasn’t hot it would probably have helped. Now people want it to be him.

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            Oh I think if it was him, the gun is 100% planted still. But I find it somewhat as likely that it wasn’t him, because why would an assassin who took as many precautions as they did, only travel 1 state away?

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              The tune changed from ‘this guy may have been a pro’ to ‘guy they found at an icky dees with all the evidence needed to arrest on him one state over almost a full week later’. Also I default to not trusting the cops and feds when there’s any doubt at all as to the guilt of someone arrested as well as the fact that I really hope the real killer is still out there. Best twist would be Luigi is intentionally taking the heat. If that’s the case I will lionize.

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              Because he was likely not in a stable mental state and didn’t plan beyond getting out of the city.

              Yes cops plant evidence, yes we shouldn’t take them at their word, but if we’re gonna criticize the surveillance state for only doing it’s job to protect capital, shouldn’t we also accept that it can do it’s job very well in these situations?

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                You’re missing my point entirely. I believe that if this really was the guy, then that gun must have been planted because the FBI must have used illegal methods to track him down (this is parallel construction, using illegal methods to build a case that can then be laundered via convenient stories like the McD’s snitch) and just planted the gun to seal the deal.

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                  What should be illegal and what is actually illegal under the Patriot Act and Five Eyes are vastly different things.

                  Just because the methods used to track him infringe on our privacy and rights doesn’t mean the weapon was necessarily planted, he could’ve been planning a second attack or simply wanted to be caught.

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                If it’s not planted, and this guy really did it, then I don’t think this is a matter of the cops doing their job well. If all that is true, then they didn’t catch him at all, he turned himself in.

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            It’s the not ditching the gun thing that’s really bothering me

            That and not changing jackets. Have you seen how many jackets this man owns? You’re telling me he wouldn’t have another one in his backpack?

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      I’ve known there wasn’t for a while, but I didn’t feel the visceral reality of it 'til I started doing pro-Palestine activism

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            In all fairness that only works until it doesn’t. Get arrested at such a rally? Fired for cause, violation of your pledge and barred from future employment with the state. Someone, a co-worker, a member of the public, one of the many zionist doxxing orgs screenshots your social media criticism of zionists and support for Palestine and sends it in? Believe it or not absolutely fired and barred from future employment.

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              This hypothetical person may also vulnerable to fraud charges in the amount of their gross wages from the date they signed the anti BDS affidavit. Every person’s risk tolerance is different of course

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      No, america has Free Speech™*

      *Terms and Conditions apply, see website for details. Free Speech™ is a registered trade mark and not a reflection of any actual freedom of expression. Free Speech™ can be revoked at any time for reasons including but not limited to: net worth, income, skin color, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, language, culture, political views, and occupation. America reserves the right to alter what constitutes Free Speech™ at any time for any reason. Offer not valid in American territories, states, districts, or any other area under control or influence of America.

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    Police concluded that she intended to use “the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s homicide to her advantage.”

    Who does she think she is, one of the two political parties justifying bombing and invading another country?

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      Leave us dead in the street to be the organ donors

      They disorganized my people, made us all loners

      Still got the last names of our slave owners

      In the land of the free, it’s for the free loaders

      (Free loaders being the bourgeoisie)

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    I would really like to believe that it was her adding, “You people are next,” that got her in to trouble. Otherwise, I find it troubling to get in to trouble by telling someone their own slogan.

    It would be like going to jail for sitting through a Mets game, watching them lose, and then saying, “Lets go Mets,” only to then be arrested.