Is the US a dystopia?

There is apparently uhc assassin fan fic on ao3. They call him “the adjuster”.

https://bsky.app/profile/joolia.bsky.social/post/3lct27wygak2g

seeing "The Insurance Adjuster" going around as a nickname, gotta hand it to the people there

― sleeve, Saturday, December 7, 2024 7:09 PM

xp

Avoiding the is-assassination-good discourse, I will say that it’s weirdly refreshing to have a high-profile shooting that seems like it has a rational motive. Gotten so used to delusional psychopaths obsessed with internet fame that old-fashioned political killing is a nice break.

isnt it that you just agree with the motive here tho

sorry shouldnt just burst in with that;

assassination bad but may at times be good

us not a dystopia but at times may be

what else

The Beatles

I dunno, it's not whether or not I agree with the motive so much as there IS one. Most of our high-profile shootings are just like sad-lonely-mentally-ill, had-a-notebook-of-famous-mass-killings, etc. Stuff Le Carré or Grisham wouldn't touch. This one at least seems to come from a more rational lineage of targeted murders.

yerman who shot at trump

eh, he seemed more like the category of incoherent glory-seekers, like John Hinckley — not a political action per se, even if it had obviously political effects.

Trying to blow up Maggie Thatcher

She's probably already in several pieces

Hinckley Jr.

Squeaky Fromme and Ford is a borderline case. Her heart was in the wrong place… but so was his.

I haven't seen Suburban Fury yet, but Sara Jane Moore possibly to thread.

Take me out to the Congressional ballgame, take me out to the crowd

Amazon has had security for executives for years.

This is a good week to be a corporate security consultant or contractor. CEOs can justify spending as much as they want on security.

The pay on those job listings kind of sucks if that’s the supervisor in charge of hiring people to take a bullet for the head of the Wage Theft Department.

its a good week for assassins to take those jobs

Would love to see the dead peasants insurance policies these companies would collect on, if the hired goons took a bullet for the big boss.

assassination bad but may at times be good

us not a dystopia but at times may be

what else

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 December 2024 bookmarkflaglink

You've caught up well done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSRmQ6WiUU

TikTok kids should make that go viral

Avoiding the is-assassination-good discourse, I will say that it’s weirdly refreshing to have a high-profile shooting that seems like it has a rational motive. Gotten so used to delusional psychopaths obsessed with internet fame that old-fashioned political killing is a nice break.

Again, that dude that offed Shinzo Abe had some pretty solid reasoning.

all of this was predicted by Toto in their 1984 hit song "Stranger in Town"

A person of interest was nabbed Monday in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — busted possibly trying to use a fake ID in a McDonald’s, law enforcement sources said.

The man — who sources said is being eyed for the coldblooded, targeted execution in front of a Manhattan hotel last week — allegedly had a manifesto on him when he was taken into custody by cops in Altoona, Pa.

He also had a gun, silencer, four fake IDs and other items “consistent” with what authorities were looking for in the case, sources said.

awww, they got him.

The man who was detained at McDonald's showed the police the same fake New Jersey identification that the man believed to be the gunman presented when he checked into a hostel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Nov. 24, a senior law enforcement official said.

taking his mask down was so dumb.

I wonder why McDonalds needed to see ID

I didn't know you needed to be 21 and over these days to order a Big Mac?

The Grimace Shakes have vodka now

Grimace Shakes! Whatta band name

this guy not exactly jason bourne is he

fuck the Grimace Shake, that viral dance has nothing to do with the 80s classic

Trumps gonna pardon him

sonned by a fake ID in a McDonald's beef

its the fake beef youd imagine would be the priority

besides it wasn't a fake ID, these are 'alternative IDs'

new McDonalds commercial where the cops burst in to arrest the suspect but then everyone starts eating fries and bro-ing out and the Hamburglar sneaks the assassin out

Well that's disappointing. Any chance you think they have the wrong guy? It sounds kinda conclusive but otoh police lie.

that’s what you get for going to mcdonald’s instead of sheetz

new McDonalds commercial where the cops burst in to arrest the suspect but then everyone starts eating fries and bro-ing out and the Hamburglar sneaks the assassin out

With Mac and Me 80s dance party

taking his mask down was so dumb.

― scott seward, Monday, December 9, 2024 12:17 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah theyre not going to let you check into a hotel with a mask on shouldve slept in the park i guess

You don't re-use a burned ID, that seems obvious and I'm an idiot who's never plotted a heist or a hit before, but I've read books.

Instead or wearing a facemask, should have worn an actual prosthetic face mask.

Karl Havoc pulls off this crazy prank etc

not sure why he still had the gun on him, like was he planning to use it again

should've gone to Carls Jr., they don't card anymore

wait yea why did McDonald's need to see ID?

"gotta be at least 18 to eat these McNuggets, they're hell on baby teeth"