I dunno what the rest of you think, but I am strongly against people doing this. I personally frown on this sort of behavior.
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Disgusting.
This has been a well known fact. They did pay Serbian paramilitary groups well to just do it. I don't know why this made it to the news now? And if you want something worse
Just think about what happened to the missing kids during the war.
Think about what happened to thousands of missing kids during Syria-Turkey earthquake in 2023 (an interesting event: a missing earthquake victim kid from Turkey was found by the Dutch police wandering in a random square in Netherlands in 2024... How did the kid go there? How many others are kidnapped?)
Think about what kind of stuff was happening in and after 2003 in Iraq?
“There were Germans, French, English … people from all Western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians,” said Ezio Gavazzeni, the investigative writer.
“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.”
Just when I thought I couldn't hate the west enough
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
Safari tourism is so deeply linked with european colonialism and racism, so this isnt surprising. Idk why people even on the left imagine a humanity into the western elites, which isnt present. I assume its people who havent deprogrammed their liberalism.
I'm reminded of when I read someone say that white lions were hunted to extinction in (Algeria? Can't recall the specific African country), implying the citizens had wiped them out; I googled the country and the year the white lion went extinct and surprise surprise, it was under French occupation and it was the French who'd hunted them to extinction (apparently with other species too).
Crackers are ontologically evil. Malice is in their blood and I hope China colonizes the west and humanity has its revenge on those evil savages.
Why don't people archive.ph, when posting from possibly reactionary sources: https://archive.ph/Hvirc
Anyways, on this news, 
please report posts that don't include a non-paywalled link like archive.ph
Hey, drop the pass ag tone! Just ask nicely, I’ll modify the post. Edit: done.
Wait, that's passive aggressive? Anyways [for the other edits], thank you!
You’re welcome and no worries.
Explanation of why it’s passive aggressive and annoyed me.
Yes, it is passive aggressive.
“Why don’t people…?”
You’re trying to attack your grievance, I.e. people not using archive links, but rather than just advocating directly for your grievance, you’re indirectly (passively) posing your grievance as a question ostensibly at no one in particular.
I didn’t much care for the condescending tone of “Very good, you got other sources… Now lemme archive 'em” either, which further contributes to the passive aggressive feel of the comment.
Posing a point directly doesn’t have to be mean or rude either. You could just as well have said:
“@Palacegalleryratio, please can you alter your link to an archive one? So we don’t drive traffic to reactionary sites. I’ve got a link for you to use here!”
It’s direct, polite and helpful - and it’s basically what you did but it wouldn’t have rubbed me up the wrong way, on what was an entirely reasonable request I was only too happy to action.
I apologize. I guess I got too accustomed with that behavior...
Thanks, appreciated. 
Also paywalls, so many articles get posted on this site behind paywalls with no archive link that it makes me wonder if the poster actually reads them (not related to this post specifically).
Very good, you got other sources
Now lemme archive 'em [thanks for doing the Telegraph though]:
It’s wild to start making investigations some 30 years after.
My conspiracy brain. Some of the people that might have literally pulled the trigger were so rich and powerful that the UN, etc dismissed any mention of sniper tourists as ridiculous tabloid-level rumor even though there were clear grounds to investigate.
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In all seriousness - how did this news not break decades ago? Also - begin the countdown clock for breaking news that Hollywood is making Sniper Tourists - a movie based on real events.
It isn’t a conspiracy. Rich people have been doing crazy evil shit and keeping it out of the news since there have been rich people. They have always owned the news which is why consistent narratives didn’t start breaking down until the dawn of widespread internet use.
Perfect example: Look into the Vegas mass shooting.
It isn't a conspiracy.
what you are describing is a conspiracy.
It's wild how the way the word "conspiracy" got devalued from being "there is a criminal agreement to do crimes happening behind closed doors" to sit alongside "yall heard the aliens working with bigfoot to sap and impurify your precious bodily fluids for Ivan?" was a literal conspiracy by the CIA to boost crank shit in the counterculture and delegitimize any talk of the actual crimes the feds were actually, more or less openly, doing.
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My conspiracy brain. Some of the people that might have literally pulled the trigger were so rich and powerful that the UN, etc dismissed any mention of sniper tourists as ridiculous tabloid-level rumor even though there were clear grounds to investigate.
I recall a video Bad Empanada did that talked primarily about Gaza but brought up the Bosnian genocide; he mentioned that Clinton knew there was a genocide for years, but the French government at the time wanted it to continue because they viewed a muslim country in Europe as an abomination. It stands to reason the UN dismissed it because the victims were muslim and they didn't care, or simply didn't see the perpetrators as criminals, or even that since the perpetrators were other Westerners that it looked bad and so decided to be quiet about it.
begin the countdown clock for breaking news that Hollywood is making Sniper Tourists - a movie based on real events.
Bacurau (2019) is a Brazillian movie about rich tourists trying to wipe a rural town off the map for sport. It was a great movie and I would recommend it.
Is the nypost above tabloid-level rumors?
Now it's a battle between... 1. my laziness along with google results being very annoying shit vs 2. seeing if any legit MSM sources are running the story. I think #2 will eventually win.
Wild how I came up with something like this for my worldbuilding to represent fucked up white colonialist motherfuckers and lo-and-behold the real world manages to outdo you in the fucked up department. Again.
Before the Gaza genocide this would have shook me to my core, but the Gaza genocide already did that. Seeing things like this and the Gaza genocide really makes me think humanity is kinda fucked. Capitalism was able to run for way too long and the worst people ever got to do the worst shit ever because capitalism enables this demonic behavior
Doesn’t just enable, it rewards being a deamon.
Yup. It definitely rewards it too. It's such a sick system because the ones that obtain wealth and power are also the ones happy to use that wealth and power for the most demonic shit ever.
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The top comment has an unnamed mention of a Charlie Fucking Kirk.
Thousands of people cheered and celebrated publicly when a man was recently assassinated for his beliefs. Is it that big of a jump to think if they offered a pay per view of that happening to someone else they disagreed with, that even more would pay to watch? Hate, narcissism, and intolerance is a slippery slope.
Not thousands, millions.
An unabashed Nazi getting shot is actually as terrible as civilians in a warzone being hunted for sport 
I fucking hate how stupid a lot of yanks are. They had different rates for fucking kids you absolute cockwomblers
Oh yeah the comments section is usual internet afair. I.e. 
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Allegedly, you don't have to have a lot of money to do this in the opposite direction... 
You actually need a shitload of money to get away with it tho
What gets me is that it's such a benign amount of money. It's like tangible and understandable. When I think of trophy hunting I think of people in 10 million dollar houses who have personal chefs spending mind numbing money to completely altar their reality. So I guess I expected something more disgusting to be more expensive in turn. It's like if you had an anger problem and left it unaddressed until after you got a good tech job for a half a decade you could live out your American school system fantasy and then visit Italy in the same trip. It's just like when politicians get bought off for <10k. What? Did you need to make ends meet on a new car?! What the fuck are you talking about?!
I guess there are only so many rhinos, people are plentiful. Supply and demand or something.
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That probably wasn't the last time they did this, either.
Iirc there were reports of something like this in Lebanon as well during its civil war. I might be misremembering though.
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W h a t
(They’re all western Br*tish sources… so do with that what you will)
Is $90k the price of one human life or is it a package deal?
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