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FBI probes insect attack on Democratic breakfast in Chicago

www.usatoday.com

Chicago Police and the FBI are investigating if saboteurs placed bugs in a breakfast buffet prepared for delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.

"Multiple unknown female offenders are alleged to have entered a building...and began placing unknown objects onto tables containing food," the convention's information center said in a statement. "The offenders are believed to have then left the area. One victim was treated and released on-scene. Along with CPD, FBI-Chicago is assisting in the investigation."

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What an atrocious waste of food. And what exactly was this supposed to accomplish? What did their best case scenario look like?
- It's simpler than what you're even asking.
  These people are just childish and petty. I speculate their only goal was as-is, put bugs in democrats food. Something immature adolescents might do. Yet these are adults.
  That's my guess.
- Breakfast with a side of bioterrorism, depending on the type of species.
Thank you, enemies of Harris! This will accomplish something or other!
- Yeah I'm not really stoked about the food safety implications and food waste for the rest of us if "bugs in food" protests become normal, but I still think that inconveniencing and antagonizing powerful people complicit in genocide is in general an acceptable form of protest. It accomplishes perpetual and fractal ("at all levels") discomfort for their actions as long as they continue them.
  
  Why are you assuming that this is about Palestine?
Pro tip: block 2 trolls that can't see past their nose to have rational discussion in the thread.
Oh shit, is this about Mike Pillow's diseased mustache falling off into the scrambled eggs at the buffet?
- How the fuck do you know????
  
  🎶 Cree-hee-hee-heep-pee-CRAW-LERS!!!! They're squirmy, and wormy, and purple and green... 🎶
lol
Edit: these assholes are complicit in genocide. Fuck these people, fractally.
- Do you pay taxes? Congratulations you are also complicit in genocide
  
  Do you pay taxes? Congratulations you are also complicit in genocide
  And that's exactly why I want my fucking tax dollars to stop funding genocide holy shit
- If you believe that then you feel the same way or are even more strongly against the Republicans.
  
  ... yeah, obviously. Fuck the Republicans. Would love to see them squirm.
- I don't need the ICJ's permission to talk about what I see with my own eyes.
What in the off-brand Rajneesh is going on here?
- Hey, I get that reference!
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- This needs to be posted everywhere.
This thread:
- ITT: Liberals learn that leftists aren't their friends
Ok so was it tankies or MAGA?
- I'm guessing qanon brand crazies, Alex Jones types are constantly saying that the dems are trying to force everyone to eat bugs so I imagine it's related to that.
  
  Ok so MAGA
- Brother I fucking wish Marxist-leninists were enough of a problem to create real life news. I might not be one, but they actually make a good foil for dem socialists.
- By tankies do you just mean people against the Palestinian protesters... Yikes
  
  Per Urban Dictionary (NA, 2004): "A hardline Stalinist. A tankie is a member of a communist group or a "fellow traveller" (sympathiser) who believes fully in the political system of the Soviet Union and defends/defended the actions of the Soviet Union and other accredited states (China, Serbia, etc.) to the hilt, even in cases where other communists criticise their policies or actions. For instance, such a person favours overseas interventions by Soviet-style states, defends these regimes when they engage in human rights violations, and wishes to establish a similar system in other countries such as Britain and America.
  The term is used to distinguish the rare individuals with these kinds of beliefs from communists more broadly (including Communist Party members), whose adherence to Soviet doctrine and attachment to existing "socialist" states is somewhat weaker.
  It is always more-or-less abusive in the sense that those termed tankies do not use the term themselves, but it doesn't have any particular bite (unlike, say, Trot).
  The term derives from the fact that the divisions within the communist movement first arose when the Soviet Union sent tanks into communist Hungary in 1956, to crush an attempt to establish an alternative version of communism which was not embraced by the Russians. Most communists outside the eastern bloc opposed this action and criticised the Soviet Union. The "tankies" were those who said "send the tanks in".
  The epithet has stuck because tankies also supported "sending the tanks in" in cases such as Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Bosnia and Kosovo/a (in the case of the Serbian state), and so on (whereas the rest of the communist movement has gravitated towards anti-militarism). I wouldn't be surprised if the tankies even defend Saddam Hussein.
  Some of the people round George W Bush used to be left-wing, but they haven't really changed their views much; they were mostly tankies."
  Source: https://www.urbandictionary.com (Retrieved 8/22/24)

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