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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Lost_My_Mind 82 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Alright NYT. You wanna dance? Let's dance!

If I ask a 3 year old with crumbs on his face, if he ate a cookie from the cookie jar, he may think he's beating the system by not lying. By not saying "no".

Cookie crumbs on his face, mouth stuffed. Guilty look on his face. But he never lied. At that age, they don't yet realize that by not answering the question, you answer the question.

So, your plan to NOT publish his words, is to make us think he wrote dangerous things, and a hitlist. Your plan is to make our imagination do the dirty work for you.

So until you publish in full what has been written by him, I WILL let my imagination run wild. I'll assume that he wrote every positive thing that confirms my own biases and makes him a good person.

Hey, did you hear what Luigi Mangione wrote? He admitted to volunteering his time helping the elderly. He admitted to being the face of the revolution. What revolution? The revolution where we care for the sick and disabled. The revolution of empathy. And he killed a man who openly chose humans to suffer for his own personal profit.

That is what he wrote, and the new york times confirmed my biases. They won't even show his face, because it makes TOO MANY panties wet. That is what I believe, and that is what NYT has confirmed. That is what I shall tell everybody, and we as a society will believe. We will continue this revolution of empathy, for all of eternity.

Unless of coarse you want to publish, in it's entirety, word for word, what he wrote. That sure would keep my imagination from running wild.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (7 children)

To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.

[–] Seasm0ke 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The second Indecipherable was reported as parasites initially, wasnt it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I don't know.

I like that we can fill in that blank for ourselves. It makes the reader think about their own perspective.

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