"Hello, I am FBI Agent Jay L. Break and I'm here to fre—" Clears throat loudly. "I am here to transfer Luigi Mangione to a secret location for various reasons."
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dudes have never rocked harder
Fuck me, i know we like to mock the average american, but there really are a lot of stupidly brave, rudderless, “on the right track” people over there who are ending up doing adventurist shit because there’s no party to organise them. Sad to see.
I say it often, but I think one of the biggest obstacles is foreign policy. You even see it here on Lemmy. So many people say things like, "PSL seems cool, they do a lot of good work, but don't they also like Russia and China? They sound like a bunch of tankies." I heard someone also say authoritarian left once, which made me cringe.
Until we break through that barrier of propaganda about US American policy, it will be really difficult to organize the public into a real communist party. Otherwise, they're all going to go to the 505051/No Kings, Indivisible, DSA, or Workers Party, all of which just funnel people back to the Democrats right now.
I think more outlets for media criticism and analysis, like Citations Needed or some of what Hasan does, is probably the only way to get people to start to resist all the propaganda being thrown at them 24/7.
or some of what Hasan does
Hasan is also part of the problem. He campaigns for Democrats and always treats them as the "lesser evil", and he is also feeding into the American left's foreign policy problem. He is rabidly anti-Russia and willfully ignorant of the realities of the Ukraine conflict. He refuses to learn about the conflict's history outside of what Western media says, or to try and understand Russia's position. He has defaulted to the liberal "Putin is just bad and crazy" thought-terminating cliché. He praises China for its infrastructure and all the "treats" it's been able to provide its people, but at the same time still clings to the "China did a Uyghur cultural genocide" narrative and always brings out the "i don't like how repressive China is of free speech" card. The American left's biggest problem is that they still cling to liberal American exceptionalism. Until they let go of the last vestiges of that way of thinking, they will struggle to form and maintain a disciplined, principled and militant mass working class movement.
He should have brought a clipboard and hardhat.
And high vis jacket, and carry a big ladder, and maybe be in a wheelchair too. While bringing a film crew.
wheelchair
This right here and tell them you're doing a surprise audit for ADA compliance
If anyone asks tell then to "Call Terry about it!"
We need only to get lucky once 
Just a line of people, wrapped around the outside of the prison, wearing various costumes and practicing their bit. Like something out of a Naked Gun or Mel Brooks flick. 
Loving it... But I'm wondering if we couldn't figure out how to spring him ala oceans 11(12,13,14, idk) and use the scenario as a dnd campaign to map out the many different possibilities across thousands of play groups at once. 
You essentially just described military war games
DnD came from military war games, it all comes together.
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Anderson said he had weapons in his bag, and inside the bag was a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter, according to the criminal complaint.
dude was springing him from the can to take him to a barbecue lmao
Let's get Luigi outta there!
This reads like one of those "dangerous weapons confiscated" the PDs put up on X.
You attach the bbq fork to the pizza wheel and you've got yourself a hook and handle to zip line to safety and comfort
It's finally time. 
is based now.
I stabbed myself with a BBQ fork once and it wasn't even that bad
I say this as someone who once got shot with a crossbow
What did Daryl from the walking dead miss a zombie and hit you?
His name was Greg and he was drunk
Pulled a classic "Hey, check this out" and nailed me right on the collarbone
Fuckin' hurt
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After reading through I want to meet this dude, he seems chill.
I fucking love Minnesotans.
Good on him for trying. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Allegedly 
Hell yeah dudes rock
This really sounds a lot like the high-jinks of the early Civil War, when nobody was quite certain if secession was actually happening or not.
Bleeding Kansas campaign unlocked
I was hanging out with Mark Anderson at the party I had earlier this week.
Braver thank the troops.
That's why I say, ''Hey, man nice shot.''
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