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fuck those altoona mcdonalds employees.

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Gonna continue not eating at McDonald’s.

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I really don’t get the appeal. It’s the nastiest fast food, period. It doesn’t taste like food at all.

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cheap, fast and consistant. big mac in california is exactly the same in miami or sheboygan. you know what your getting. also clean bathrooms on the road.

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Maybe this is different because I’m not in the US.

But the McDonalds here is tiny.

Like I pay ten bucks for a burger half the size of what you’d get at any other place.

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that fillet o fish though. so good. extra tar tar

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Wild. Caught with the fake ID used to check in to the hostel; the gun (ballistics likely to confirm if same one used in hit); and walking around in public while a multi-state manhunt is underway. The balls on this dude, lmao.

I thought he would have fled the USA by now using a ticket bought in advance. Guess he wasn’t as smart as we thought. Or just got complacent.

Alternative theory: he wanted to get caught, and put on a display in front of the courts and get a message out.

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He has an engineering degree from an ivy league, so alt theory seems very plausible.

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What a wild timeline this is. Dude sacrificed himself to life in prison to potentially inspire a generation of change.

A crazy twist would be Biden (shit even Trump) pardoning this guy not out of wrongful persecution but rather to deplatform him from giving the health industry a bad rap and possibly inspiring other murders.

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A crazy twist would be Biden (shit even Trump) pardoning this guy not out of wrongful persecution but rather to deplatform him

If they’re going to deplatform him, it’ll likely be by smear campaign or “suicide” in jail at this point. There’s a zero percent chance they would release someone who attacked the upper class. Politicians wouldn’t want to upset the people they actually represent.

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Maybe, but in my experience, book smart tends to = street stupid.

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I agree to an extent, but not to the level of street dumb where you don’t dispose of fake IDs and the gun you used to commit a crime for days after committing it. Not only do you not dispose of it, you carry them around on your person as you walk into an extremely public space while knowing that the police are after you and know of your fake id.

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Maybe he thought it would be handled exactly like every other murder.

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So he meticulously planned the attack, ditched his backpack, kept the gun and fake IDs, and handed over a fake ID to cops when questioned. Seems dubious at first glance, but we’ll see how it pans out.

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Yeah I don’t buy that this isn’t some random fool they’ve had an eye on and have just decided they’re SOL so it’s time to use the scapegoat.

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I too was thinking this. If they can’t catch im they want the optics that they caught him.

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My tinfoil hat says they used illegal means to track him down. That’s what they’re trying to hide.

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9 points

Of course they use illegal means to track him down. That’s why our police state exists.

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0 points

The internet romanticized this guy as some kind of mastermind based on not much of anything.

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fuck that McDonalds in particular

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What piece of shit loser turned this person in? Class traitor.

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Bet it was a manager.

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Yummy corporate boot with delusions of grandeur as a side dish.

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