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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 136 points 1 week ago

~~shooter~~
suspect

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago

Funny that they don’t take this approach with mass shooters.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Alright NYT. You wanna dance? Let's dance!

If I ask a 3 year old with crumbs on his face, if he ate a cookie from the cookie jar, he may think he's beating the system by not lying. By not saying "no".

Cookie crumbs on his face, mouth stuffed. Guilty look on his face. But he never lied. At that age, they don't yet realize that by not answering the question, you answer the question.

So, your plan to NOT publish his words, is to make us think he wrote dangerous things, and a hitlist. Your plan is to make our imagination do the dirty work for you.

So until you publish in full what has been written by him, I WILL let my imagination run wild. I'll assume that he wrote every positive thing that confirms my own biases and makes him a good person.

Hey, did you hear what Luigi Mangione wrote? He admitted to volunteering his time helping the elderly. He admitted to being the face of the revolution. What revolution? The revolution where we care for the sick and disabled. The revolution of empathy. And he killed a man who openly chose humans to suffer for his own personal profit.

That is what he wrote, and the new york times confirmed my biases. They won't even show his face, because it makes TOO MANY panties wet. That is what I believe, and that is what NYT has confirmed. That is what I shall tell everybody, and we as a society will believe. We will continue this revolution of empathy, for all of eternity.

Unless of coarse you want to publish, in it's entirety, word for word, what he wrote. That sure would keep my imagination from running wild.

[–] chillinit@lemmynsfw.com 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] chillinit@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh shit. We need to circulate this. This is going to be one of those things 95% of people will never know exist.

Like the little tabs on cassette tapes and putting tape over them to be able to record over it.

And people today are like "........what?"

Except THIS is important.

[–] chillinit@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 week ago

We need to circulate this.

Yep. And, now there's one more spreading the word.

[–] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The second Indecipherable was reported as parasites initially, wasnt it?

[–] chillinit@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 week ago

I don't know.

I like that we can fill in that blank for ourselves. It makes the reader think about their own perspective.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago

I’m tired of seeing it too. Every time I catch a glimpse I have to swap panties

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Its a good thing all the merch and swag featuring him is exploding in popularity. Manufactured goddamn consent fucking denied, assholes :)

[–] lime@feddit.nu 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

here we have a rule that nobody publishes the name or face of people suspected of crimes. it's allegedly "not newsworthy". they all get called "the 35-year old", "the carpenter", "the third man", until court proceedings are through and they are convicted.

unfortunately, influence from overseas and people's seemingly rising bloodthirst seems to be changing that.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m assuming “here” is somewhere other than USA. Your system sounds better for protecting the integrity of court proceedings…

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's on the Niue instance. The ones with the piss flag

🇳🇺

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

yeah, classic bit of cyber-colonialist history behind that tld. it's managed by the IIS.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's... Actually really messed up. Considering that Tuvalu was able to make a huge profit selling it's .tv domains. Nothing wrong with .nu domains going to Scandinavian sites, but at least let Niue keep the money

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 week ago

well... they do get some of it.

Niue gave away their rights to a company, which passed those rights on to the IIS without Niue getting to do a vote. i think they got some official to sign off on it but it was never a matter for the assembly there. they originally gave the rights in exchange for the company building out internet infrastructure on Niue with the proceeds, and that has been done.

Niue also agree they should not be the registrar for the TLD, since they don't have the capacity. so the IIS does do some of the work which needs money. the main issue in the suit is one of "transfer of consent" or something.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think it's relatively common in EU, unless the suspect has already been somehow outed, or has gone public. But typically, suspects and victims aren't named.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The line between the people and the corporate/political elites is getting more defined and visible every day. I hope people notice.

The contradictions of Capitalist system cannot be hidden anymore

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 36 points 1 week ago

Funny how they never mind sharing every minuscule detail of school shooters. Hmm.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Do they not want people to compare his eyebrow to the eyebrows in the surveillance photo?

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn't it because we don't even know yet if it was him?

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It’s because people are thirsting for him and it’s not the response they wanted. Attractive people are sympathetic.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 18 points 1 week ago

I don't think people really care if he did or not

  1. if he did it, good. they deserve it. free him
  2. if he did not do it, why the fuck are hussling the wrong guy? free him

No amount of regime whore spinning will change that

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

I do wonder if it would be same if he was ugly. I do admit him being hot makes me lean to his side, although I was alteady defending his ideals before the Internet revealed his shirtless pics.

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Read. the. article.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

ken klippenstein has done some good journalism

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imperial mouthpiece gonna imperial mouthpiece.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago

Besides the New York Times' inflated view of its ability to de-amplify a crime that practically everyone is already talking about, the internal chat sheds light on the other arguably bigger reason the media shies away from disclosure: its fear of antagonizing the sources it relies upon for scoops. "My source asked last nite that we not publish the whole thing," reporter Andy Newman wrote in the Times chat.

Thought after I read that: "When have they not done that?

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

They’re afraid. Good.

[–] CM400@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

This is the genius who left his plans in his browser history.

Everyone lacks common sense here.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

They should probably have a word to the prison he's being held in then TBH. It's like Paris Fashion Week over there with the amount of photos of him they're taking.

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Does anybody have a screenshot of the chat the article is referencing? It's a slack chat with journalists iirc

The screeshot was at the top of my feed yesterday and now I can't find it anywhere

Edit nvm it's ay the bottom of the article yaaay

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago