Is the US a dystopia?

is that Chuck's cousin?

hey chuck i found that new sound youve been looking for *holds phone up to ceo assassination*

The Guardian:

The suspect was in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania and was recognized by an employee who then called local police.

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he had to have some level of expectation he'd be caught. yeah, cops are still inept and lots of crimes don't get solved because of this, but committing the 'perfect' crime is almost impossible nowadays. you'd have to do insane amounts of info-gathering in advance but in a way that doesn't tip anybody off that you're up to no good.

like anticipating where cameras would be present not just on the street you commit the crime on, or any building you set foot in, but in literally every other location you visit afterward....and nowadays if some stranger runs into you and thinks "omg I found the guy' they can take your photo and alert pretty much the entire world within seconds. have to pay cash for everything in a society where more businesses are going cashless (#onethread)...

i guess one benefit though is you can basically go on Twitter and see what everybody's amateur theory is while you're escaping

committing the 'perfect' crime is almost impossible nowadays.

― her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Monday, December 9, 2024 1:48 PM (forty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes, but i could do it

and of course it's a crapshoot. granted, this was 18 years ago, and things have definitely accelerated in terms of public surveillance, but boggles my mind that Jennifer Kesse's abductor literally drove her car back to her apartment, got out, and walked in front of a security camera in broad daylight, but the view was blocked by bars in the fence that the camera was behind so nobody could ever ID him.

he got away with it, fucked up as it was.

xpost lol

was recognized by an employee who then called local police

Mayor McSnitch

btw if you ever wanna see a hilarious movie about a 'perfect crime', The Next Three Days"

never meet your heroes

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Based on his Twitter TL, he seems into hustle bro optimization stuff like Andrew Huberman and Tim Ferriss.

*watch The Next Three Days.

a film which begins by FBI walking in and arresting a woman with no previous criminal record for murder because they found her fingerprints on a fire extinguisher and don't even interrogate her first or anything despite there probably being 30 people's fingerprints on that thing including young children.

xpost ew Fuck Mangione then

tbh "fuck insurance companies" was a fairly non-controversial, bipartisan opinion for a long time, it was after the Affordable Care Act got passed that Republicans began defending the industry that was killing them at all costs

think its still widely popular fwiw

once i got into a fender bender and i kept trying to tell the guy that it wasn't cut and dry and we will prob both be responsible for our own cars, and he said the "cameras will show" and started gesturing vaguely around. let's just say the cops didn't go to the footage to break that case

theyre gonna csi this shit

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the guy's name is luigi's mansion

spooky

Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal.

The solution to falling birthdates isn’t immigration. It’s cultural.

Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness and spirituality:
* ban Tenga fleshlights and “Japan Real Hole”… https://t.co/3OaJLJPwpX

— Luigi Mangione (@PepMangione) April 18, 2024

turns out he's a RETVRN guy?

Is it close to the Four Seasons Total Landscaping?

not his but I loled

It’s amazing how caffeine really is the only drug that has achieved this level of social acceptance.

Imagine someone saying : ‘the first line of cocaine in the morning is one of my favourite things in life’ or ‘without my morning joint I can’t function’ https://t.co/exlxMxUDwa

— Martin Bauer (@martinmbauer) May 24, 2024

turns out he's a RETVRN guy?

― 龜, Monday, December 9, 2024 2:10 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol the things he knows about japan

seeing it mentioned that he had a back injury

at least he can polish the fenders

Based on his Twitter TL, he seems into hustle bro optimization stuff like Andrew Huberman and Tim Ferriss.

― jaymc, Monday, December 9, 2024 12:53 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also based on his Goodreads, good lord

tbf reading that stuff could drive anyone to kill

grappling with the implications of The Adjuster turning out to be a hot Italian tech bro gym rat who went to Penn, seems to have had a pretty gnarly back injury, retweets anti-woke nonsense, and has read not one but two books by Steve-O

— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) December 9, 2024

A most fascinating Milkshake Duck moment - he's not (openly) racist just the most annoying guy at a party.

weeb harvey oswald

his twitter header has an xray of what looks like steel implants in his back xp

john wilkes bowflex

sirhimbo sirhimbo

Less Milkshake Duck, more Smoothie Goose

He'd be cute if it wasn't the eyebrows, book choices, and fascism.

Ah shit I should have gone with Juice Goose, sorry everyone

maybe he murdered UHC CEO for covering too much of his medical expenses

"I had the means!"

Hey, he wrote a review of the Unabomber's manifesto:

Clearly written by a mathematics prodigy. Reads like a series of lemmas on the question of 21st century quality of life.

It's easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it's simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.

He was a violent individual - rightfully imprisoned - who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.

A take I found online that I think is interesting:

"Had the balls to recognize that peaceful protest has gotten us absolutely nowhere and at the end of the day, he's probably right. Oil barons haven't listened to any environmentalists, but they feared him.

When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it's not terrorism, it's war and revolution. Fossil fuel companies actively suppress anything that stands in their way and within a generation or two, it will begin costing human lives by greater and greater magnitudes until the earth is just a flaming ball orbiting third from the sun. Peaceful protest is outright ignored, economic protest isn't possible in the current system, so how long until we recognize that violence against those who lead us to such destruction is justified as self-defense.

These companies don't care about you, or your kids, or your grandkids. They have zero qualms about burning down the planet for a buck, so why should we have any qualms about burning them down to survive?

We're animals just like everything else on this planet, except we've forgotten the law of the jungle and bend over for our overlords when any other animal would recognize the threat and fight to the death for their survival. "Violence never solved anything" is a statement uttered by cowards and predators."

h.m.o. holmes

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it’s like we asked “how much more gilded age can 2024 get?” and the gods answered: “how about a high profile political assassination by an angry and almost certainly mentally ill young man with an extravagantly italian name whose politics are best described as anarcho-murderous?”

xpost if you like joining armadas, getting shot in the rain

from a locked bsky account

Luigi Mangione might be a fuckin weird dipshit but you have to separate the art from the artist

sackler and venzetti

Impact-wise, him not having social media full of Antifa/BLM/lefty memes somewhat blunts his usefulness to the right. (In the same way the lack of a clear political pedigree did for the two would-be Trump assassins.) The incoming administration is still going to hound lefty activists, obv. But I'm sure they'd love for this guy to be a leftist poster boy.

dunno why exactly, it doesn't seem like very much of this country thinks murdering healthcare CEOs is actually wrong

hopefully this will teach everyone that thiel-pilled ivy league grads are not to be trusted

Too late for that — JDV is our next vp :(

unless...

now is the time, Mario

it's-a me, Assassino!