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https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-chest-midtown-manhattan-masked-gunman-large/story?id=116446382

fellas what words are you carving into the shells of your bullets??

actual lol stop making him sound cooler and cooler by the minute!!

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[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 132 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Kinda love that the breathless media is trying to spin this as a senseless act of violence. Why the hell are you telling the masses what the assassin wrote on the bullets if it makes him look like a folk-hero? Is the media really that detached? Do these people think the Sheriff of Nottingham was the good guy?

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 84 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The media class are in a profound social echo chamber, the very idea anyone would oppose the elites and celebrate resistance is literally incomprehensible to them, they're not educated enough to even think about this abstractly, most of them were trust fund brats of one kind or another, their brains are just not wired for this

On the otherhand the cops are just happy to have someone "worthy" to hunt, whose capture or killing will give them a kind of fascist glory and social media cred

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 46 points 10 months ago

yup, the linked abc news article didn't even try to guess what "deny, defend, depose" meant.

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[–] red_stapler@hexbear.net 124 points 10 months ago (11 children)

That resembles the title of this book

[–] kittin@hexbear.net 93 points 10 months ago (3 children)

and what you can do about it

[–] abc@hexbear.net 65 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Jay Feinman seeing the news tomorrow morning: "I DIDN'T MEAN THAT!!!"

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 116 points 10 months ago (1 children)

rat-salute He stopped a mass murderer. In a civilised society it'd start a purge.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 103 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Rare good guy with a gun in America

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 88 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only way to stop a bad guy with an insurance company is a good guy with a, you know, the thing

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 104 points 10 months ago

The Chad inscribing bullets for your assassination of a capitalist pig vs the virgin signing missiles being used in a genocide

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 77 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

adventure-time feels cool, but we need to see this moment and energy from a broader perspective. If this just ends with everyone being "that was cool" it's not enough. Instead, as the debt collective noted, medical debtors (and others harmed by this evil system) need to organize.

After all, eventually CEOs will just hire tons of goons and private security. So as cool as this was it's not sustainable and violence is only effective coupled to a movement. I'm thinking of my fanon here - when he discussed violence it was always as part of a larger mass movement, not simply wielded by random adventurers.

Of course this doesn't mean we can't seize this moment and this shock to begin to organize and deploy real power. I need to reread all of Lenin on the adventurism, but does he ever talk about being opportunistic about this stuff?

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago

I think Lenin and the gang did more bank robbing and stealing weapons than assassinating people pre-revolution.

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[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 74 points 10 months ago (1 children)

holy hell he's actually so cool

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 48 points 10 months ago

Just goes to show that in the age of cookie cutter killings, doing Cool Shit can still have an impact.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 72 points 10 months ago (2 children)

is any of this real or is this an elaborate advertising scheme for a fucking thriller novel?

[–] Cammy@hexbear.net 75 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lmao a viral marketing campaign of killing ceos

[–] miz@hexbear.net 43 points 10 months ago

I feel like even Bill Hicks would be on board for this one

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 68 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Raddest dude in the country and it’s not even close

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 68 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn, so that means he was based? meow-fiesta

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[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 62 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 58 points 10 months ago

Holy hell this is a hell of a guy

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 55 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Someone is printing t-shirts with this phrase like crazy right now

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[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)

CEO hit in kinetic exchange that took place in Midtown Manhattan earlier today. The surgical strike was carried out by a lone operator.

"It's unfortunate when bystanders are at risk of coming in harms way, but these things happens." Said spokes person, who commented on the condition of anonymity. They continued to say that the target was well known by the community, operating in the open. Showing that these kind of people are part of a bigger problem.

The CEO later passed away from his injuries.

sit-back-and-enjoy

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's some Assassin Creed shit lmao che-poggers

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago

fellas what words are you carving into the shells of your bullets??

The lyrics for the song We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel, one word per bullet casing, humming the song as I spray and pray like the Bullet Farmer when he says "Sing Brother Heckler, sing Brother Koch" in Fury Road

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What an absolute king. Ooooooooh he got away I wonder if he's after more than the one.

I hope those fuckers are wondering too. I hope they're up at 3am wondering.

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[–] ProgAimerGirl@hexbear.net 46 points 10 months ago

so did the obvious contract killing come with specific stipulations for how a message should be sent (neato)

or was the contract killer ideologically sympathetic and doing pro bono work (basedbasedbased) (waow)

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 44 points 10 months ago

Kinda wanna get that as a tattoo.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm partial to the name of the person I'm shooting

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[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 42 points 10 months ago

ok its official the killer is the coolest american since john brown, this is action movie levels of badass

Death to America

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