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If the disaffected lunatic fringe can be redirected from shooting up schools to targeting CEOs instead, simply by the promise of becoming folk heroes as opposed to villains, that would be a massive improvement.
Sure, but I don't think people should be falling in love with lunatics even if the lunatic does something they like.
And for all we know, this guy is a lunatic. Or has done some horrible thing that has nothing to do with this. He could be a rapist or a pedophile or batters his kids... or he could be a nice guy who couldn't take it anymore.
And until he's caught, we probably won't know.
But apparently people love jumping to conclusions. If this guy turns out to be some sort of horrible person for other reasons, I will not be surprised. Hero-worship of anonymous people is not very smart.
If an awful person ends their life doing something heroic rather than villainous, maybe they can be remembered for that instead. Maybe not. Probably the circumstances will be complicated in how they are weighed.
As for this fellow, I feel somewhat confident that the public will not accept whatever person they pin the blame upon as The Adjuster or Spartacus or whatever we call him, alive or dead. They cannot be trusted, so he cannot be caught. He's well on his way to myth.
I'm just talking about the heartthrob part. Don't fall in love with someone you know next to nothing about.
Ah but we'll never know for certain who he is! If they can't find the real guy, they'll likely pin it on some nobody with a problematic past. So we can't fall in love with the real guy, but only a hero archetype instead. And that's perfectly fine.
That makes no sense. If they don't catch the real guy, he'll be free to do it again. If he does it again, it will be clear that the nobody they pinned it on was the wrong person.
We do not trust the oligarchs and their police to actually catch the real guy. There's a good chance that, whoever they kill and claim to have "got him!" the public will not accept that they really did. We already think they're going to just murder someone in order to close the case. Maybe they'll get him for real. Maybe they won't. We will never know and the conspiracy theory machine will just keep churning out maybes.
If another CEO bites the dust, it will probably be a copycat. This guy is getting away, if not in actual truth, at least in folklore. He'd be a fool to strike again.
Again, that makes no sense. We know what he looks like and surveillance cameras are everywhere. Are you suggesting the copycat would somehow do some sort of Face/Off thing with the killer?
We have no idea what he looks like. The pictures are of a guy with a different jacket. They're the ones who claim that's the guy, and handsome white dudes are a dime a dozen in the city. There's still no reason to trust they showed us the right guy.
Dude, your conspiracy theory is going way too far here. Use some Occam's Razor.
Dude. I'm not saying one way or the other. I'm just saying that the conspiracy machine is gonna churn up reasons why they might have lied, no matter who they pin it on.
You think they've finally let the jet fuel steel beams go after all these years? There's no reason why the conspiracy machine is ever gonna accept that they got the right guy. Your insistence that it makes no sense is utterly irrelevant to conspiracy theorists.
Yes, people come up with stupid conspiracy theories all the time, but you were saying it was a conspiracy. I'm not sure why you're claiming you didn't:
That's not what the "conspiracy machine" churned up. That's what you churned up. You even said "we" multiple times. You are the one doing the "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" here.
Yeah, I'm the only one saying this stuff.
They haven't caught anybody yet. I gave you examples for why the public (we!) might have reasons to doubt whoever they put on display. I was explaining how he's not unlikely to become an uncatchable folk hero. I used the word "myth" for chrissake.
I get that nuance does not always come across well in text online. May I suggest that you may not have fully understood what I was implying?
Whether you're the only one or not, you just said in the previous comment that these were not your conspiracy theories, they were crazy ones like the 9/11 conspiracy theories that other people will come up with.
Now you're back to promoting the conspiracy theories yourself.
So, again, you're the one doing the "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" thing in this case.
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So are you saying it or are you not saying it? Make up your mind.
Sweet Jesus, you're impossible.
Plenty of people already do not believe that the handsome guy was the shooter. It's all over this place. The jackets don't match.
Nobody wants him caught. It's all over this place.
I was speculating on what might happen with all this in the near future, regardless of what you might think makes no sense.
I don't know if they'll really catch him. But I do think that plenty of people will not accept their claim.
No. You weren't speculating. You were making claims. I guess I'll have to quote you again:
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Again, make up your mind. Do other people, not you, believe this or do you also believe it?
You are bizarrely inconsistent and are apparently very willing to pretend you didn't say things you said.
Cool.
And you know what I'm going to maintain? You have fundamentally misunderstood the point I was trying to make. I can't say I blame you for it. Obviously some of that's on me.
But you know what else I'm not gonna do? I'm not gonna go line by line refuting your misunderstanding of my various quotes from my mobile device, and certainly not when I'm going to bed. Definitely not when I'd rather sleep than lay awake being annoyed at someone insisting upon not getting my point that I often struggle to make.
Gnight dude. Ever a pleasure.
Stop talking to me.
I literally deleted my post immediately after posting it because I thought better of it. For fuck's sake.
I can't help it if deleted by creator is still there. That's how Lemmy works.
And I replied before you deleted it. I appreciate it. But my statement stands. For tonight anyway. I don't have anything against you. I'm just done with this particular conversation. Your interests and mine have differed too much for me to want to continue, and I'm trying to control how easily I get irritated, that's all.
Have a good night.