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The bootlickers never cease to amaze me. A McDonald’s employee? Are you fucking kidding me?

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That $50,000 bounty is likely a bigger payout than two years of wages as a burger flipper…

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It would be a shame if the person who sold out were publicly identified. Hopefully that will never ever happen.

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Yes, in all honesty, hopefully that will never happen.
What, are you hoping for vigilante justice against a minimum wage worker?

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I’m no expert, but wouldn’t the snitch have to pay taxes on the reward they receive? So they have earned the ire of a nation for a small stack of cash that they’ll likely blow within a year. Smort.

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Nothing good comes out of Altoona, look at their fucking “pizza”

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122 points

Wtf kind of abomination is that?!

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40 points

Please don’t tell Jon Stewart

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13 points

Something that would make every Chicagoan and their ancestors cry.

If I were Uncle Roger and I saw this abominable attempt at a deep dish pizza, I’d put my leg down from chair.

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7 points

It’s a pizza, a sub, and “more”!

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47 points

It looks like someone melted orange plastic on a dish sponge that was used to clean up a picnic table after a seafood boil

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30 points

How to piss off the entire population of Italy in 1 image

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27 points

Or just anyone who likes food.

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7 points

Italians will just shrug and say “Beh, è l’America.”

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8 points

who the fuck tried to upscale ghetto pizza (which is basically toast, ketchup and sliced american)

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5 points

Hey you’re messing with our class solidarity posting that

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3 points

Burn it! Burn it with fire! The power of Christ compels you!

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3 points

Wow

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3 points

Euccchhh what the fuck??

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Not really “bootlicker”.

A victim of propaganda.

Or “useful idiot”

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69 points

Or really just someone on a shit wage with rent and bills that saw 50k as an end to their immediate issues.

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15 points

One can make a good living stealing out of a blind man’s cup.

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How about posting a gofundme (or whatever) to collect whatever money they want to not snitch

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Someone that has their own morals, and thinks killing is bad? Totally a bootlicker! For me its about principles. The death of this CEO changes nothing

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31 points

The principle should be “harm society at large, abandon the protections of society”.

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Someone that has their own morals, and thinks killing is bad?

Can we guarantee they’d report him if there was no financial incentive?

The system really doesn’t give a fuck about your or anyone else’s morals, let’s not pretend otherwise. That’s why they put a bounty on the killer, after all.

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So if killing one person is bad, isn’t killing hundreds to thousands of innocent people/year hundreds to thousands of times more bad?

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36 points

First they let Trump work the fryer for a PR stunt, now this. Fucking McDonald’s…

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24 points

If they weren’t already on your boycott list, now’s the time.

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I don’t eat at McDonald’s for a variety of reasons, but I doubt very much that the company has anything to do with the guy being called in.

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34 points

As much as I dislike them calling, I can’t really be mad at someone who’s making minimum or near-minimum wage for being tempted by the reward money. There’s a good chance they’re living paycheck to paycheck.

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44 points

And they’ll be back to paycheck to paycheck soon enough.

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Have a little faith in humanity? If it’s a 19 year old working through college that’s basically their whole 4 year tuition and them some in that area

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Well this guy literally had all incriminating evidence on him. With that level of carelessness, he’s gonna get caught sooner or later. Like the pulling the mask down is just asking for trouble.

Maybe he just wanted to chill a bit and see himself famous before eventually planning to let himself get caught. Who knows?

I mean, he might just wanna let himself get caught to not have the blame pinned on a scapegoat.

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18 points

Having all the incriminating evidence on him seems… Extremely unlikely considering the rest of what we know about the situation.

That’s the type of shit you’d expect from desperate police planting evidence. Planting a random suppressor, a supposedly “phantom” 3d printed gun, and a manifesto isn’t exactly hard. Only the gun could possibly be directly traced to the bullets fired, and that’s not something they can test in the field.

Not saying that’s necessarily the case here, but this would not be the first time law enforcement, including the FBI, planted evidence because of outside pressures.

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26 points

Plenty of people bought in to the messages of popular media. Hard to change a mind that follows so blindly.

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23 points

Rich people are the only class with any solidarity.

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13 points

It sucks major but it could be someone who lives in a small bubble, doesn’t use social media, and only watches fox news. Or whatever local news channel. If that’s all they see, they might think they did the right thing. They could be oblivious.

They could also be a bootlicker. Time will tell if we get more info. If their info is released the 50k probably won’t be worth it.

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2 points

I mean, he has a very active Twitter account

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9 points

Idealistic teenagers will get you every time. Old enough to drink the Flavor Aid, young enough to not have the experience to temper it.

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Who probably doesn’t even have health insurance at all. People acting against their own self-interest are all over the place.

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3 points

How is tipping off the police to get the cash reward against your self interest? Holy fuck dude.

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Some people really do seem to believe that “murder is wrong.” Who’d have thought?

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“Murder is wrong, even if its Osama Bin Laden or even Adolf Hitler”

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10 points

Nuance: unjustified murder is wrong. Someone who dedicates their life to destroying others for profit, murdering them is significantly less violent than letting them persist, and is therefore justified.

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Nuance… There are people calling for violence against the McDonald’s employee who reported the murderer to the police.

Tankies didn’t know the meaning of the word “nuance”. People who express nuance are “Nazi sympathizers” or “class traitors”. Anyone with a remotely “centrist” view is “sitting in a Nazi bar” and therefore culpable.

This place is a shithole of absolute moralism.

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Careful, .world admins don’t like people mentioning jury nullification

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162 points

You mean that very legal and factually-suppprted facet of the American justice system that every juror should be informed about before making a decision in court?

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They revised mod policy to only hand out bans/deletions if jury nullification was referenced as a cause to vilence, not a reaction o past events. I’m paraphrasing, of course.

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42 points

Yeah, basically

“Go do [Violence] and we’ll do jury nullification afterwards” is bad, bur

“[Violence happened], but it was justified in the eyes of the majority of people so jury Nullification should happen”

Is OK

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We should all completely cease talking about it. It, of course being jury nullification.

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5 points

Why? Seems like something people should know about.

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22 points

Good time to switch away from .world

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The policy was cleared up, basically EU/Dutch/Finnish law doesn’t like Jury Nullification in regards to future crimes/calls to violence. But in regards to crimes already committed it’s fine. And being as that’s where .world is hosted, that’s the law they go by.

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.world admins are weird

Time for some #Anarchism at lemmy.dbzer0.com

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To clarify, the admins have updated their views in reaction to this week and user feedback:

Following a discussion in our team we want to clarify that we are no longer requesting moderators to remove content relating to jury nullification in the context of violent crimes when the crime in question already happened. We will still consider suggestions of jury nullification for crimes that have not (yet) happened as advocation for violence, which is violating our terms of service.

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They specifically said it’s okay in reference to crimes already committed.

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1 point

What is the reasoning? Is there any?

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You really think every person in real life goes ahead with supporting this murder just because you heard enough people online repeating this in this echo chamber?

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33 points

No. Everybody knows that some people stand up for mass murderers, so long as they do it by enough proxy layers.

Plenty of people betray society for want of looking down on others

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12 points

It goes well beyond any one echo chamber, I still have Xitter and peruse TikTok from time to time. It was/is everywhere across the political spectrum

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Bro there are Ben Shapiro watchers mad at him for shilling for big corporate interests in the reporting over this story. They agree with the killer too lol

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Yeah, they seem to…

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9 points

I’ve definitely heard both sides of the argument from people who are in no way rich. This is an echo chamber on anti-wealth issues. What people agree on is getting rid of health insurance.

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245 points

Upon further investigation, officers recovered a firearm on the man, as well as a suppressor, both consistent with the weapon used in the murder.

Ummm… That’s awfully convenient. He just happened to have brought that exact gun with its suppressor to McDonald’s. I’m skeptical.

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109 points

How do you not throw the gun away before leaving the city?? The ID was apparently on him too

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94 points

Exactly this. He pulls off the hit, escapes without a trace. But is somehow dumb enough to carry convicting evidence on him still while in a very public location?

Anyone would know to dump the evidence and lay low for a good while.

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Toss that shit in a river and go back to your life like nothing happened.

Laying low and hiding just makes people suspicious. If the cops come looking and your work and friends haven’t seen you since the shooting, you look guilty as fuck.

Leave no trace and go back to your life. Looks way more plausible that you just took a mini vacation that way.

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5 points

It was most likely actually in the backpack they found in Central Park

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47 points

Everyone is asking these same questions…

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Maybe he wanted to get caught so they dont find a scapegoat.

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43 points

…or maybe the police just found their scapegoat

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7 points

I’m honestly willing to believe him being dumb founded for the last week, fully expecting to have been caught and said fuck it, better me than someone innocent.

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You throw away the gun after leaving the city. In the middle of nowhere

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15 points

They must have planted it back on him.

Found in a lake, then planted and parallel constructed

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7 points

From the video, it sounded like they searched his residence and found it there.

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6 points

Don’t forget, they basically found a long drawn out letter about how much dislike he has for CEOs - something along those lines.

We all know that just what you go around carrying after you pulled off a crime like that.

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We can’t let the media take the narrative back and let them do a smear campaign on this person who might not even be the shooter. He’s a suspect.

This ceo shooting broke the proverbial spell where what the population was actually saying wasn’t being guided or swayed by the news.

We need to keep the steam up on the media pushback. All those savage, snarky comments and memes left on every news article, fb post, tweet… they got overwhelmed by us. That needs to keep happening so they can’t go back to distracting and brainwashing people with fear and politics while they scapegoat this guy and try to make an example of him to the rest of us plebs.

They already tried to distract us with aliens and Diddy because people won’t stop saying how much they hate insurance companies. Keep voicing your discontent where ever they leave an open comment box. Please do it. Not only is it cathartic, but it upsets the oligarchs and everytime you upset an oligarch someone’s insurance is less likely to deny their claim.

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This isnt the guy. This is their scapegoat. What I could read he seems to be a foreigner. Also the first part of the article is hilarious. Fucking cop who been on the job no more than 6 months and fellow officer saw this guy and just knew they have the right man no doubt in their minds didn’t think twice. Fucking doesn’t look like the killer even a little bit. Bunch fuck ups. Poor guy.

Edit: so guy isn’t a foreigner, but he isn’t the killer either.

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59 points

just knew they have the right man no doubt in their minds

As a crim minor, this is the start to every documentary they show you about coerced confessions that have been discovered as false

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5 points

It says he’s from a rich Baltimore family.

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8 points

So Batman? If he is the killer which I highly doubt. Bet they fucked up and arrested the wrong guy.

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^ Such a fucking delusional post. Jesus fuck.

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2 points

Get ratio’d shill.

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15 points

Wait hang on what aliens

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21 points

Just a nothing statement from the pentagon with a click bait title. It was a waste of internet space honestly.

I’ll save you a Google… the pentagon doesn’t know what ufos are.

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4 points

Bunch of weird stuff going on above NJ right now. Governor made an address after 21 mayors demanded answers. Military has been going nuts East of Ocean City and the South part of NJ.

Been going on since end of November, def not related to The Adjuster.

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God I wish dem aliens were real, if they were they’d have more than just “Hey guise, aliens might be real amybe”

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2 points

Reading the coverage from mainstream Media is wild. Only The Guardian was brave enough to provide the other perspective that didn’t paint the CEO in some ultra kind light. But maybe it’s because they’re not based in the US.

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You’re telling me the same guy who was proclaimed some kind of modern ninja-spy-assassin-genius on the back of his work in NYC was just stupidly waltzing around Altoona carrying an illegal ghost gun?

Doubt.

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It’s possible that the myth grew out of proportion to the reality because we all got a bit caught up in the romance of the thing…

Though, like, I’d still absolutely hit that. Cut myself on those cheekbones, goddamn.

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Personally think he underestimated the target this would paint on his back. Either that or he knew and was expecting to be caught.

That’s the trouble with heroes becoming actual people and likely why media is covering who he is. Instead of being an unknowable symbol of defiance, we now have to grapple with the fact that he is human.

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Assuming the latter given he apparently didn’t ditch the gun, clothing, and had a manifesto. Especially so if it’s true the gun was 3d printed, that would’ve been much easier to dispose of than an actual gun. Dudes had days and is in an area where they have easy cover to burn all of those things

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In the modern surveillance state, it’s hard to get away with this kind of thing. In a matter of hours, they had a partial photo, the hostel where he was staying, the ID he used, and the taxi he took.

Granted, some of this was probably from people reporting him after seeing his picture on the news.

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There’s still no reason he should have had any of those bits of evidence still on his person though if he didn’t want to get caught.

My “I’d like it to be true” theory is that the guy is terminally ill anyhow, and escape vs. get caught later and have a platform due to the trial vs. be killed at the scene were all equally acceptable outcomes to him.

Hence the very meticulous planning and clear proficiency with the required steps to do the killing, yet (intentional?) sloppy drop of the phone and water bottle, plus exposure of his face, and continuing to carry every bit of the evidence they could hope to find on him days later.

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Yeah after something like this you go back to your place off the grid for a while. Certainly not some medium sized town guaranteed to have desperate boot lickers. That kid just made 60k if the arrest turns out to be legitimate.

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5 points

Proclaimed by whom?

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Why would he be carrying all of the evidence including handwritten motives, the same fake ID and firearm with him to McDonald’s after days of being on the run? If he really wanted a ghost firearm, he could have had a second one that fired another caliber. Why would he still be wearing a face mask to make him look exactly like the pictures that were released and triggering people to think of him?

Either this guy wanted to get caught, or we’re not getting the full story.

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Hate to wonder whether the widespread public exoneration could lead folks heroes to get lazy or even take for granted that “the people” universally love them and would never turn them in.

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