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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I don't know if it says anything that the caption says "social media posts" but 3 of them are photos of IRL signs/banners, and the other one is an illustration of a sign. And there is no surrounding context, like 9 trillion likes or anything included. If I was writing this report I would have chosen different images to make my point.

But 2 things from that same document, are they accurate?

During his arrest, authorities discovered Mangione was in possession of a three-page handwritten claim of responsibility. In the writings, he made several references to a "parasitic" healthcare system filled with "corruption and greed".

It was three pages?? Were they very small pages or is there more? The "manifesto" that was posted all over the place is very short, not 3 pages.

During the course of the investigation, law enforcement discovered "delay", "deny", and "depose" written in permanent marker on the bullet casings used in the shooting.

It was written in marker? I assumed you'd have to paint it or something. How big are bullets? I just used a fine point Sharpie to write "depose" as small as I can and it isn't legible below about 1 1/8" x 3/8" on a flat piece of paper. Wouldn't is rub off while being shot out of the gun?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Marker seems plausible. The casing, which is what it was written on, isn't fired through the barrel. It's ejected after, usually out the side. As far as size, writing 'depose' on say a 9mm cartridge seems pretty small, but not impossible, you could do it. Challenging, but not impossible. The casing is about .75" long and .4-ish inches diameter, and usually steel or brass, to give you an idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Maybe you could write it on a diagonal or something. Like spiraling around the outside. Instead of in a straight line like I was thinking.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The fun part will be when Trump rips apart the alphabet soup intelligence apparatus and displaces much of the senior leadership. Those guys have spent decades building webs of deep and strong connections, and I would be 0% shocked if those guys were able to successfully mount an insurgency against the Trump presidency, and they'll likely take with them the list of dissidents and malcontents to contact.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Idk, I just think it'd be peak comedy if, after sponsoring right wing movements around the world for seventy years, CIA leadership was forced into leading a left-wing counter revolution here at home

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

The Alphabet Boys have dirt on everyone because they have everything. They probably have shit on trump putin doesn't. They could end trump whenever they want. But they don't, because they want what is coming.

They tire of the shadows, and want their own KGB man to lead the nation like in Russia, like the good old days with George H. W. Bush. No, that person is not trump.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

So what'll this be called, The Health Scare? Ref. The Lavender Scare and all other scares there's been.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

You know, anyone making negative comments… The bees go get 'em.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the heads up IQ nilly.

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