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    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.

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        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

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      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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    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?

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      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.

      I’m sure we haven’t seen the whole thing. Why would they want to give us more than we “needed”? We were already cheering for him.

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      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.

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        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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    Addressing the problem with increased surveillance and beefed up security for executives is not addressing the problem. It’s exacerbating it.

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    Imagine if government resources were spent on applying antitrust laws to stop this abusive situation that literally kills people and ruins lives instead.

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    But anyway don’t download RedNote the Chinese censorship is just so terrible…

    (Oh he’s super popular on that app btw lmao)

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      Only fools think real Chinese care about him or even know who he is.

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        Bro they’ve been making thirst traps of Luigi on Douyin and XHS since his mugshots came out. You can literally Google “Luigi Mangione Douyin” and see all the results. Get out of your bubble.

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          Because western news is filtered, and he would not be branded a hero for fear he would inspire the Chinese people to rise against their fascist dictators in a similar fashion.

          See: Withering away of the state. Without that, it’s just Authoritarian Socialism

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        I’d imagine that some people, when given a choice between a service that shares your data with the Chinese government versus one that shares your data with the US government, well, the Chinese government can’t arrest you for bullshit reasons on US soil. The US government can.

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    So they’re monitoring everyone? Nothing new, they have been doing so illegally for decades. If only someone could inspire the masses to resist elite authoritarianism… Mario?

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        They want a list because there’s a zero percent chance that they’ll successfully manipulate public opinion through social media.

        “Hello fellow capitalists! Ready for a new day of supporting free enterprise by simply caring for ourselves?” #nevergonnafuckinhappen

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

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      Area 51 : Naruto run means they can’t catch us all :: List of people that dislike insurance companies : Knowing that gov’t jobs are gonna be cut to the bone for crypto scams and GOP pocket lining means they can’t monitor us all

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          Wait, how? Because I only know about statistics and you usually want a comprehensive list to work with either partially or in bulk.

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          This is not about data analysis. This is about justifying oppression. And if it comes to “we have found you all to be dangerous” the conclusion is “we need to oppress you all”

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        You can’t put us all on the little list by definition, because then it would be the big list.