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In Grim Twist, Some See Suspect in C.E.O. Killing as Hero or Heartthrob (archive.is)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A grainy image of his face drew comparisons to Hollywood heartthrobs. A jacket similar to the one he’s wearing on wanted posters is reportedly flying off the shelves. And the words written on the bullets he used to kill a man in cold blood on a sidewalk on Wednesday have become, for some people, a rallying cry.

Four days after a gunman assassinated a top health insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan and vanished, the unidentified suspect has, in some quarters, been venerated as something approaching a folk hero.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No. You weren't speculating. You were making claims. I guess I'll have to quote you again:

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.

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.

This post:

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.

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.