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https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-chest-midtown-manhattan-masked-gunman-large/story?id=116446382

fellas what words are you carving into the shells of your bullets??

actual lol stop making him sound cooler and cooler by the minute!!

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Kinda love that the breathless media is trying to spin this as a senseless act of violence. Why the hell are you telling the masses what the assassin wrote on the bullets if it makes him look like a folk-hero? Is the media really that detached? Do these people think the Sheriff of Nottingham was the good guy?

[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

i don't understand how they benefit from telling us but i'm really glad they did. they totally could have kept that secret forever and it would have made the entire thing way less powerful

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Profit. It's the hot news story right now and every detail can get harvested for views and therefore ad revenue. That's all there is to it.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the cops though, why did they release the info

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Probably so they could spin up some bullshit about online radicalization or whatever

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I too get online radicalised when my online loved one gets online cancer and is online denied by my online health insurance.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Huh that’s funny. Same thing happened to me with Minecraft.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

They are gonna ban masks in Manhattan, and ask the courts to please let them suck up even more data without warrants.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Capitalist realism

[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The media class are in a profound social echo chamber, the very idea anyone would oppose the elites and celebrate resistance is literally incomprehensible to them, they're not educated enough to even think about this abstractly, most of them were trust fund brats of one kind or another, their brains are just not wired for this

On the otherhand the cops are just happy to have someone "worthy" to hunt, whose capture or killing will give them a kind of fascist glory and social media cred

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 weeks ago

Yahya Sinwar levels of 'maybe this will make him look bad' self own

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago

yup, the linked abc news article didn't even try to guess what "deny, defend, depose" meant.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

People forget Guy Fawkes wanted the U.K. to be more authoritarian.