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"you think all of these are a coincidence?"
Well all but two of them were old as fuck, one was a public high profile shooting, and one was a rogue wave in Lake Tahoe with many witnesses. So unless our tactics are controlling the waves or just waiting for them to die at 98 years old, I don't think this even rises to the level of 'coincidence'.
Also, a bunch of them are former CEOs. What would be the point of assassinating a retired CEO?
Easier to find still sends a message
Doing your part to alleviate the US's ammunition surplus?
Funny
poseidon, welcome to the resistance
Yeah I agree, most of them are old and probably died from natural causes or accidents. It's interesting how they all occurred in the past few months, though.
How many rich and important people usually die in the space of a few months? Is this a statistically unusual period of rich person death?
I've only done limited research so far:
If I have time I will look further into it, but from what I see as of now, if there is any statistical anomaly in last few months, it's probably not very significant. I still found this interesting, regardless, even if it is due to my ignorance of how many rich old fucks die regularly. I honestly expected them to live into their 90s-100s, so I was just happy to see for once how many bozos now rest in piss before reaching that age.
I promise I am not trying to spread misinformation. You and others have made good arguments in this thread and I agree with you all.
Rich people are dying all the time for those who have the eyes to see.
controlling the waves
How much mass do you need to drop into the water to make a potentially deadly rogue wave? 
edit: okay I'm thinking volume is the critical measurement here, not mass, although you need enough mass so that your volume doesn't float.
Number of Dead CEOs:
This list is incomplete, you can help by expanding it.
Not enough
I think these are rookie numbers that should be way way higher.
Yes, I think all of these are a coincidence
geezers be dying what am i supposed to glean from that lol
Even though this is just a coincidence, I still think normalizing this kind of thing might be a good idea.
a thousand could die and id still want more. maybe this is why china makes grassfed and guilt-free ceos to kill
Vaxxed?
oh no! how will the economy function without so much institutional knowledge of sitting around doing jack shit?
It's okay, we'll get LLMs to replace them. Just need to develop robot bodies for them so that they can do typical CEO things (golf, sex crimes, etc).
not enough of them
Beat me to it.
Vaxxxed??