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“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.”

Post got removed in .world for not being a "news source" even though Klippenstein is definitely a very established independent journalist, so trying again here I guess.

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[–] roofTophopper 71 points 22 hours ago (11 children)

This whole thing smells like horse shit. You hear so make stories about murderers ditching anything they had on them at the time of the crime. Rivers and lakes get dragged, forests are swept, every dumpster is turned upside down.

Yet, you're going to tell me homie was 300 miles away carrying everything he had still on him from the crime AND a literal confession note? Are they sure he wasn't waving air traffic controller sticks around on the freeway yelling, "IT WAS ME IT WAS ME"?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I was wondering hard too. If i had done this, i wouldnt want this to be the end of it. Its not enough, nothing will change. None would do it again in the next 100yrs. I would try to make sure I did as much as I could.

Manifest in a time released something a week after I don't reset the time (hence captured).guns n stuff hidden for the next job.

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[–] psycho_driver 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Being a tech guy, I was wondering if he had a deadman's switch set up to release something if he didn't make a check in. That's probably how I would go about it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

There are stories making the rounds of a YouTube channel in his name with two videos. One was something along the lines of "if you're setting this, I'm already captured", the other was set to premiere but the account got removed before it was public

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

what about his book review?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Just remember which instance let you read this, and which one wouldn't let you.

.ml doesnt need to host a bi monthly feud posts like .world does. Their moderator actions are all the advertisements we need. Make an account and export your settings today! Lemmy.ml

[–] LANIK2000 9 points 16 hours ago

.ml sucks too. When I'll move, it'll be some super niche instance or self hosted.

[–] boywar3 43 points 1 day ago (21 children)

I don't wanna get banned for saying China does bad things too lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I'm on .ml and I've said plenty of critical stuff against China, the mods are chill and in general it's been a really solid community.

That being said, I'm a hardcore leftist, so even though as an anarchist, I am strongly at odds with many statist solutions, I agree with the vast majority of leftist underlying critiques of sociopolitical issues.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean .world 100% sucks lol, and people should definitely move off it, but I'd also like people to move off .ml or any other general purpose instance since centralization on any one instance can cause issues imo. I'm considering switching off of .ee for the same reason. I think it makes more sense to have specific instances for specific things, so that the admins of one instance can have more domain specific knowledge ideally.

.world specifically does seem like they can't go more than a few weeks without some kind of drama though lol.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago

The .ml/tankie witch hunts on .world are what got me to jump. It's just exhausting.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty

This is either disinformation or whatever asshole wrote this doesn't know US history.

You can still see the scars in the JP Morgan building in wall street from the horse drawn carriage bomb that was set against those greedy corporate assholes after the arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1920

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing

We have a long history of defending against their violence

[–] [email protected] 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I can definitely see why someone not as well versed in anarchist history could believe that, or if they specifically meant against the insurance industry. Either way though, I think it's important for people to know about that history of violence that led to meaningful social reforms. So many Americans think that workers rights, civil rights, and everything short of the ~~abolishment~~ rebranding of slavery was won through voting or peaceful protests.

Too many people believe that somehow a state has some divine morality granted to it, and justice can only happen within the confines of said state. No moral act can be carried out without the government sanctioning it, and any miscarriage of justice by the state is an abnormality.

There may be a monopoly on violence held by states against their people, but this doesn't give them some inherent right to be the ultimate arbiters of justice. Something being legal does not make it moral, and just because an act is illegal doesn't make it immoral.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Something being legal does not make it moral, and just because an act is illegal doesn't make it immoral.

Well said

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 day ago (9 children)

This sounds like a written confession or statement to the police, after he's already in police custody. Not a "manifesto", which is something justifying your actions to the public and done before carrying out whatever it is.

I'm not buying any of this. Someone who went to so much trouble planning, executing, and getting away without a trace, isn't going to go out in public with a bunch of incriminating items on their person. The NYPD probably just picked this tip out of the thousands they got, and are making things fit after the fact.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I really find it to be quite absurd that people are still thinking this isn't the guy. This is probably the guy. My basis for that is basically just that the shooter had a 200 dollar peak design redditor backpack and a uniqlo packable jacket when he shot that guy, and those are both heavily techbro-coded fashion items. That's on top of all the internet history of this specific guy pretty much indicating that he's the guy. Back problems, leading to a several month long disappearance, after he turns 26, and is no longer on his parent's healthcare plan.

We can also look at it through the lens of just the assassination attempt itself. The news is saying they found either a 3d printed gun, or more commonly, a ghost gun (which I have not been able to find a consistent account of). In either case, that involves buying a mostly unregulated firearm upper, and then either finishing an "80%" pre-assembled lower with a drill press, or probably even a regular cordless drill, or just wholesale printing the entire lower of the gun yourself. Both of those, are also techbro-coded methods of obtaining a firearm. Compared to just buying a somewhat common firearm in a state where it's pretty easy to get a gun a couple months before, and then shaving the serial numbers off the gun, or just getting a gun off the black market, or stealing one from someone, which all seem maybe easier than going the ghost gun route.

In the video itself, we see him struggle to cycle the gun manually, due what is probably a combination of using subsonic ammunition, and his suppressor, which I'm assuming did not have a nielsen device, or, a booster. Those are devices that are meant to help browning-style tilting barrel designs cycle much more reliably. They also tend to cycle less reliably with heavier baffled suppressors compared to much lighter, quieter, disposable, and easier to produce wipe-based suppressors.

His research and meticulously planned operation also consisted of shooting this guy in the back, in front of a camera, while this guy walked to his hotel. That's a plan that has a high percentage chance of success, it's the same way that you'd see many mob hits happen, but does it strike me as something which is particularly complicated or out of character for this guy, if he had a couple months to cook something up?

Based on the entire description of that chain of events, that would probably indicate that this is a somebody that's had some amount of preparation but wasn't some kind of professional or overwhelming genius. It could be the case that they dug around online for thirty minutes, happened to find a guy that had both disappeared for a couple months, had medical problems, was a little bit more conspiratorial, or rather, had incoherent politics, and would be the kind of guy who would dress in a peak design backpack and in a uniqlo jacket, and was ALSO a guy which was exiting new york at that time via bus. They would then have to plant evidence on him, which cops are known to do, but that's all, legitimately, entirely possible. Is it more likely than this being the guy, based on everything we've seen from the video?

I would say no, probably not, this is probably the guy.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I really find it to be quite absurd that people are still thinking this isn’t the guy

This guy doesn't know about jury nullification.

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Damn Gen Z kids can't even write a full page manifesto anymore smdh

/s

[–] lgmjon64 70 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ChatGPT, write me a manifesto

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

📎 Looks like you're writing a manifesto, would you like some suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 day ago (4 children)

[indecipherable] is the new [redacted]

[–] Ultraviolet 1 points 10 hours ago

I think there's something else being withheld. This might sound a bit crazy, but there have been a lot of 286s involved. Denial code 286, Breloom, 286 tweets, following 286 people, caught 286 miles away from the scene of the crime, and the manifesto is not 286 words, but 262?

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago (5 children)

.world should not be removing articles from Ken Klippenstein. I detest the man for his methods and indiscretion (not necessarily in this instance), but he does post the facts as he receives them.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Interesting read. However this turns out, not a huge fan of .world removing it, similar to the centralized sites you'd expect to suppress stuff. Stopped following their news thread for this reason as I don't need my information moderated- can do that myself.

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