Anon reads the news

Is chilling how thenwhole internet is fed up a story of a man before his sentence. If this guy is innocent his whole life is already exposed forever just for memes and a penny. We are the big brother and we suck.

The "we did it reddit!" phrase comes from redditors trying to track down suspects of the boston bombing. Redditors found a guy they strongly suspected, then found personal info on them and began harrassing him and family, including death threats.
It was the wrong person.
Imagine being that person accused! One day just living life, the next experiencing a horrible bombing, the next being tracked down by a misguided internet randos on a manhunt.
This is why having some basic privacy is important before you need it
- it wasnt the internet that exposed him to the media, it was the police and feds who sold him out to the media. There is no "we did it" here. "They" did it.
- I'm sorry, but just one detail from what I'm seeing on the linked article - "that person" committed suicide a month before any of that went down. I don't think it invalidates the point, even though being alive and present to be interrogated might've changed things, but it comes off comical when talking about how horrible the experience must've been.
im big skeptical of the photos and videos they've been circulating. everything about this investigation is sus.
- Yeah the real guy is gone, the cops are finding someone to blame it on because they are afraid of continuing to totally fumble the bag.
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It just shows anyone can do the right thing

He did everything right and believed in the system.
And then he himself, or someone close to him, got a diagnosis that ensured life-long medical debt and poverty.

He seems to have had a spinal surgery and had pins put in his spine. Books he's looked at seems to indicate chronic pain and fights with insurance companies.
It was exactly what every single person thought who wasn't paid to think otherwise.
- Had exact same fusion performed.
  4 screws, 2 rods to connect them, and a 3-d sintered titanium cage between the vertebrae.
  I can attest to the chronic pain and wanting to armor a bulldozer
The movie Falling Down, but replace terrible temper with chronic back pain.

The privatized healthcare system happened.

The simplest answer is he was pissed at UHC for denying medical claims for him or the ones he loved, and the CEO had dialed up the denials so an obvious target.

iirc on one of his social medias the banner was a back X-ray with medical nails or screws in it. I assume he (or someone he knows) was having back issues and got denied.
- His former college roommate said he always struggled with back problems which is one reason he tried to work out so much

Someone said he was in a surfing accident and needed pins/plates put in his back. His profile (https://i.imgur.com/2g1ZGBa.png) shows an X-ray of a back that's had surgery done on it.

He's 26 and just come off his parents' healthcare. [Except his family is wealthy, so I'm not sure if this one is relevant or not.]

You can be wealthy and not be "pay your own medical bills" wealthy.
- Doesn't his family own nursing homes and other businesses? Shouldn't that be wealthy enough for healthcare? You would think there are some connections to the medical sector there as well.
Sometimes you can have wealthy parents and still barely make ends meet
- This, also, just because he may have had good coverage to do the surgery, stuff like that can have lifelong consequences that can need routine, expensive, medical care, for years, if not the rest of your life. Even if they are getting care, their insurance, even "good" insurance, could have denied much better therapy, for the cheaper route, which will have a major negative impact.
  It is too early to be making up our minds about this arrest, this guy, etc. However, just because your parents have money, doesn't mean you can escape the evils of the private healthcare system.

ITT: some really healthy skepticism over some of the “evidence” allegedly written by the shooter. I’m kinda impressed. Some other lemmy communities are leaning harder in to conspiracy ideas (planted evidence or whatever), but quite a few of the comments here are taking the time to analyze the info.

We really just don’t know yet. And likely won’t know until the trial (if there even will be a trial).
- Did you read anything past the first sentence?

I don't get it
- The libertarian flag is yellow and black. The anarchist flag is black and red.
  The implication is that a libertarian only looks like an anarchist by proximity. As soon as they're left to their own devices, they're revealed to be Christian Nationalists (the black symbol on white robes is used by the Klan.)
- Most ancaps/right-libertarians are often just right-authoritarians that like drugs, addicted to loli-hentai (although this one is falling out of fashion due to "nofap" reasons), weirdly "free speech extremists", etc. Exceptions may apply.
- Yellow/Black is the flag of anarcho-capitalism.
- Don't worry. It's stupid.
Base on what I've read about this kid: I probably wouldn't like him as a person. I probably wouldn't agree with a lot of the things he believes, and I'd probably vehemently oppose a lot of it. I don't think he's a genius -- in fact I think he's probably a similar to the edgy, dumb kid I was at that age.
Sometimes "good" people do bad things, and sometimes "bad" people do good things: real people aren't one dimensional caricatures.

Back pain is a hell of a drug.

Fortunately, back pain is in the drug formulary. Claim approved.

Law Abiding Citizen 2 plotline. Honestly this event really remind me of that movie, all those killed is worthy of "ohh no...anyway"

He was activated as a sleeper agent by the [redacted]

People are dying. Evil has become institutionalized. Corporations make billions of dollars off the pain, suffering, death, and anguished cries in the night of millions of Americans.

Based.

Is that a quote from him?
- I got it from the top comment’s source, which, it seems “claims” to be his story.

Two lines from the bottom they are missing:

Discovered DOTA2

This implies the existence of two other CEO assassins working the Broadway and Wall Street lanes
lmao

They really got him? Or is this just some ruse?

Press seem sure of themselves.
I think this guy worked with the real killer. Luigi would get caught, these idiots stops looking, killer gets away.
Why wear the same thing and carry all the crap that can get you caught?
Why are the bags and jackets different from the surveillance photos?
- Yeah, why travel to Pennsylvania with a letter admitting guilt and all the 3D printed stuff with you? This guy got private education and never watched a crime series? Never learned to dump his gear or destroy the evidence? Kinda weird.
- So it makes more sense to you that someone who didn't pull the trigger just up and agreed to be the fall guy?
  I'm not buying that.

The Activation of The Division has begun.

they need the killer to not get away with it, so they created a scapegoat. they picked an affluent white guy because the system is more lenient on them. they approach him, offer him and his family money, tell him he'll have to spend a few years in jail, take the fall for the murder, and promise that he'll be out soon, private cell, lenient judge, all that. that way the public thinks that it's not possible to get away with revolt.

I seen so many of these and I really don't understand. Like if there is a secret cabal powerful enough to organize this and keep this a secret. The resources to find this random dude, approach him and make these offers and STILL have no one speak out about it. Couldn't they just find the guy? Like are they really so desperate to attempt this after not finding him for 3 days? Also if they are scared this is going to happen again because copycats are they really powerful enough to organize these cover ups? Feels like Schrodinger's oligarchy cabal, powerful enough to frame and cover anything up but not powerful enough to keep themselves from getting shot in the street.
I am not on CEO side, I am shedding no tears but the whole scapegoat thing is just delusional.
- The catholic church covers up and shields priests who are guilty of sex crimes against children.
  The CIA abducted and tortured US citizens in MKUltra.
  There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
  Just because you're too stupid to imagine it doesn't mean it's not real. Have a day.
Yeah, his family was really desperate for the money and it was worth destroying his life over.
Fucking what are you smoking?
- Why are you angry about the suggestion? Let's get to the bottom of this. Tell me why you're personally invested in the idea that a family could be bribed into putting one of their kids in prison.
his family doesn't seem that desperate for money
- are you incapable of imagining a rich family that can't be bribed, blackmailed, threatened or coerced? please call your educational facility and request a refund, assuming you paid any money for your education. 👋

writes a Goodreads review on Ted K

Oooooooooh boy. Slippery slope!

What happens if he turns out to be a neoreactionary?

If the only evidence is from old Twitter posts, keep in mind that Musk wants him made an example of, and is not above editing the contents of anyone’s account to get his goals (which he asserts is his right, as he owns the site and everything in it)
- You do have a point. At this juncture, I think, anything is possible. Really, non of it ads up. Half is fake and the other half is mystery. There is definitely still a large leap from his actions to this ideaology.

CIA /s