United Healthcare CEO shot and killed | 1st Degree murder charges ordered dropped

His family and friends could have helped the authorities days ago. Thank you Mr. McDonald’s employee!
 
chrissteel said:
I have some mental health disabilities in a couple family members and based on my limited research the late 20's is often when it becomes first noticeable. Is this an accurate info. This kid was in that age group.
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Same here with my previous wife. Began to get really noticeable at 26 - 27 years. Same with one daughter and has advanced to serious now at age 54.
 
chrissteel said:
I have some mental health disabilities in a couple family members and based on my limited research the late 20's is often when it becomes first noticeable. Is this an accurate info. This kid was in that age group.
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For psychosis, I believe it tends to occur even earlier, late teens, early 20s is typical for men.
 
hedge said:
Our jests and more. I got a text from my step-daughter this morning that was a picture of a CD case with the sister of a B-list celebrity on the cover (this CD was released ~20 years ago), I replied "That looks kinda like Janet (sister of the step-daughter who sent the text and not her real name, although of course I used my other step-daughter's real name when I replied) when she was in high school," about 3 minutes later my step-daughter who sent the original text texted "Apple AI just said 'CD cover resembles Janet (but of course used her real name) in high school.'" I don't even know what that means, but it seems kinda... something. I guess it's not that big of a deal, anybody with a Facebook page or Instagram or any other social media has plastered pictures of themselves online for years, AI has plenty of opportunity to associate a face with a name, but I still thought it was creepy that it harvested this "info" from our texts...
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I've said here before; I feel AI is maybe the most important development since the wheel.
 
Willy said:
I posted earlier on the thread, but there is a very loud anti-capitalism contingent on reddit and presumably other social media sites that have violent undertones. "eat the rich" and "bring out the guillotines" will often have hundreds of upvotes. I've always assumed a portion of the comments are Russian bots trying to propagate social unrest, but this seems to show there are real people out there with the belief system. I wouldn't be surprised if you see more violence aimed at the wealthy.
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its not shocking at all. we spend far more per capita on healthcare than similarly developed nations and all of our lives are expendable in the interest of ensuring that obscene wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a small group of oligarch overlords.

people are rightfully fed the fuck up.
 
HeelingAg said:
Sad truth of society is his appearance does indeed improve his chance of acquittal or hung jury, before even considering the tens, if not hundreds, of millions who share his disdain for what the victim represented.
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Absent juror nullification, ain't no way this guy is getting acquitted.

And I suspect the prosecution will put some gnarly autopsy photos in front of the jury to make darn sure that doesn't happen.
 
korgguy1971 said:
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Architecture and God don't strike me as "Right". Unless I missed it, nothing really political in anything posted.

Sounds like a guy who was just incredibly frustrated by long-term and apparently severe back pain.
 
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This guy strikes me as a classic Monty Python-style anarcho-syndicalist. In most prior times, that would put him firmly on the far left, but when the GOP makes space for someone like RFK, I guess it could go either way.
 
This guy seems like he might be in the online Unabomber cult. There are quite a few of them out there, attracted to the Unabomber’s manifesto. This CEO may be a latter day victim of the Unabomber (his ghost/continuing influence). Releasing the manifesto helped catch him but it has fueled some anarchist-ish lone wolves (sometimes Neo-Luddites (leftist-anarchist), others Eco-Fascists (right wing)) since then:

“… the publication of that manifesto had other consequences. It has inspired copycat attacks and is claimed as an influence by others who have gone on to commit atrocities around the world.

It begins with the words: “The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.” And then goes on to detail Kaczynski’s belief in the need for violent rebellion against modern technology and those who help develop it.

Last week (2023), the billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted “he might not be wrong”. …”

www.theguardian.com

The death of the Unabomber: will his dangerous influence live on? – podcast

Ted Kaczynski died in prison earlier this month, but his manifesto promoting violent rebellion against the modern world continues to inspire copycat attacks
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“… “Eco-fascism” is receiving renewed attentionfollowing the recent far-right terrorist attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. In his manifesto, the perpetrator hailed as an inspiration the 2019 Christchurch attacker, himself a self-declared “eco-fascist,’’ and plagiarised his manifesto’s section on environmentalism which described immigration as “environmental warfare” and ‘’destructive to nature.’’ Notably, the Buffalo attacker also quoted Ted Kaczynski, otherwise known as the Unabomber, excerpting Kaczynski’s critiques of leftists from his 1995 anti-technology manifesto Industrial Society and its Future (he was not the first far-right terrorist to do so, Anders Breivik also plagiarised Kaczynski’s manifesto in 2011).

Kaczynski is a figure contemporary eco-fascists have coalesced around. Indeed he has been increasingly co-opted by the broader far-right in recent years. …”

icct.nl

Ted Kaczynski, Anti-Technology Radicalism and Eco-Fascism

Disclaimer: Primary sources, including quotations, are not linked within the text for ethical reasons. Readers interested in obtaining primary material may contact the authors directly.
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But there has been a noticeable uptick in violent ideation on the left in more mainstream social media recently, at least it seems so to me (so anecdotally). This particular killer may be a left-wing Unabomber cultist, I guess we will find out at some point. But more and more the far right and far left extremists seem to share a lot of rhetoric and ideation, even if their stated goals (or reasons for them, like depopulation to save the planet on the left among eco-terrorists or de-population on the right among eco-fascists to protect the God-given resources to preserve and sustain white culture), they seem to be living in the space where the ideology clock curves back to meet at extremist midnight.
 
NCK9 said:
26 pages might be a record for how long a thread can exist without anyone speculating which 'team' a suspect is on.
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Not knowing the shooter's real identity until yesterday probably had something to do with it.

Speculation when there is no information available is just speculation, but that is no longer the case. The tweet is in response to a NY Post article painting him as a radical leftist, indicating from actual screen-caps of the suspect's social media posts that it may not be as clear-cut as the Post article would suggest.

What is it exactly that you find distasteful?
 
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