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[–] 39 points 9 months ago

he forgot to say that he keeps all his upper floor windows locked. You've got to cover all your bases.

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    Wild to me that these people think this will save them. They need to learn that a text social media post, or a letter, or a signed affidavit (or whatever) is near useless to protect via dissuasion.

    Make a goddamn video post. Professionally shot, get your/a psych to be in it with you, get close family and friends in it. Make the videos creative commons so that news agencies have full rights to use them, post to multiple services, and make many versions of the video.

    Any group considering your murder knows about blowback and they surely weigh the risks. If you have a crappy 48 word post on Twitter as your only protection they know the death will be easily framed as a suicide by legions of happy-to-oblige media services that'll repeat the official findings read on video by the coronor/investogator/official, or audio played on podcast, and easily sell the false narrative. But if there are a bunch of high-quality widely available (and free to news networks) counter videos - its going to weigh a much higher risk for them.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Tweets and skeets are a megaphone based on spur-of-the-moment thoughts.

    Large scale media campaigns have time and manpower to strategize angles, uptake and decide next steps.

    The more we learn about bureaucrats with paper crowns, the more they’re revealed as deeply insecure children who, like the rest of us, are only pretending to know how to be grownups and really just doing random shit most of the time.

    I don’t think any more thought went into this than that cat with a newspaper deciding to buy a boat.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, possibly I have read too much into a shower thought that became a Twitter tweet.. or whatever the fuck they're called now.

    I was really thinking of not just this guy, but the Boeing whistleblower and Virginia Giuffre, who also seemed to think a small text post or mentions to friends that they're not suicidal would save them.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    if the USA is to get out of this hell, it will needs all good gestures from anyone. So, don't reject this one so to not discourage others.

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  • [–] 75 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

    This isn't some mass revolt. This is a subset of the oligarchy trying to get Trump out so they can get back to getting maximum wealth from our labor. These two are doing the literal minumum of their job description and our government is in such shambles as to make them look like heroes. Massie and Ro Khanna both have taken dark money.

    https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ro-khanna/summary?cid=N00026427

    https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/thomas-massie/summary?cid=N00034041

    For all the people that are misreading what I'm saying. This shouldn't be the new normal. Prosecuting sex trafficking rings, pedophiles and CSAM material was not political 4 years ago. The Biden administration dropped the ball on the Epstein files. Politicians are not your friends, they're not supposed to be charismatic movie stars. They're supposed to listen to their constituency, respond to the needs of their community and keep the status quo. These two are the only ones who remembered the first two. This is good. They're doing their job. I'll celebrate when something comes from all of this. But otherwise, don't let this be the new normal. Demand more of your representatives. Otherwise we'll end up with even worse ones.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's not great, but in much the same way that small increments have made this regime, won't small increments in the other direction work to bring us to a better place overall?

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    I mean yea sure they're not perfect but they're trying to do something about it. If you're expecting a perfect unblemished person you come by and fix everything then you're never gonna get anything done because such a person doesn't exist in the real world. Sometimes bad people do good things and that's fine.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    These two are doing the literal minumum of their job description and our government is in such shambles as to make them look like heros.

    Like people who look back fondly at the Bush administration. They were monsters, and when you let monsters off the hook, the next stage is MAGA 2016, and if you let THEM off the hook, you get MAGA 2024.

    We don't to see what we get if we let them off the hook again.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago
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    Why is Thomas massive worried he's going to get assassinated?

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    [–] 66 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I do not agree with Massie on most issues, and a NUMBER of the psychos who went full-time on Trump, but this dude is doing his fucking job and calling shit out.

    He needs to be protected, and OUR rights to do what he's doing in the face of threats should also be protected.

    I will also say that Massie has crossed the aisle on more things than just Epstein, and SHOCKINGLY Rand Paul. If they've developed a consistent consciousness to protect the survivors, then they should be supported and protected as far as that goes.

    I will say that Massie and Khanna just outed BILLIONAIRE proponents in the Epstein files who certainly have the means to have these people killed quietly and disappeared.

    Do not let this happen.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Massie was and is extremely wrong about many issues IMO, but I'll be damned if his backbone on this hasn't given me some satisfaction. I guess being a bullheaded libertarian who sincerely believes in your principles can be an advantage when your naysayers are straight up hypocrites defending child-raping billionaires.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    I'd take any allies I could get in this battle.

    We don't have to agree with every politician on everything. We don't even have to agree with our chosen aligned parties on everything.

    We do have to support politicians that are protecting the interests of Americans.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    USA government is already executing citizens in plain sight. Why kill this guy and make it look like a suicide when they can literally hang him in front of the white house and nothing will happen?

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Also I do have to worry quite a bit, Didn't both epstien, and one of his victims make very similar statements, before they supposedly killed themselves. Admitted I guess with more public visibility that MTG and Massie have when they did theirs, and the much increased attention of the public on the matter, it should be impossible to kill either of them without multiplying the public suspision by a factor of 100.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I just hope that the many movies and tv shows made in about 10-20 years about this time period will be well written and well produced. This is really unprecedented times we're living in, and history will not look kindly on these perps

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    History is written by the victors. I'm very curious to see how this period will be taught in schools for the next generations.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Sure, but the world is interconnected enough now that there will always be information preserved by the losers. Also the international community (both friend and foe) will have written histories on the US as well.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    We are at war.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Does he have any high windows?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago*

    Donvict really is running a crime family.

    I wonder if RICO cannot be used against Republicans as well as all of Pedonald's family. Assuming we get any semblance of sanity back.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    They won't kill him off, they can't afford to lose any of the GOP. The Democrats will have a majority if they do.

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