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Captainant

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  1. I have the same read you do - it's being used as a troll, similar to "if u can read this ur gay". It fits with that rhetorical style online
  2. This thread is a salient example of the right winger drive to frame it as an insane TRANS leftist attack, and it's been echoed by mainstream media and the President of the United States of America. I have no doubt there's fringe conspiracy people on the left doing as you say, but they're hardly comparable. There are absolely a bunch of dipshits online from #bothsides but let's not delude ourselves into thinking that it's predominantly the right leading the violence and hate-filled rhetoric. There's another board to discuss that if you'd care to actually talk facts on that more poltical topic. I'm not sure, aside from furries are a common punching bag in online spaces and a silly thing to meme on. They're often cited as an exmaple of "woke run amok" because humans are acting like animals - think "litterboxes in classrooms". Hell, an internal tool I frequently use at work gives me results as "uWufirstoutput.zip" because the memelord that wrote the tool years ago did it, and nobody has bothered to change it. It's just a weird part of internet culture
  3. Never let a good crisis go to waste. It not as impactful if full State honors are given to a guy gunned down by a message board troll
  4. So we have in order on the bullet casing: a furry meme, a helldiver's 2 meme, a WWII Italian resistance anti fascist song, and a common troll comment on message boards. What a fucking weird situation
  5. It's pretty impressive to be so committed to being uninformed you get mad about people talking about the bare facts of a situation. I hope you manage to survive in that hard, factual world.
  6. It hadn't gone to shit when yall were excitedly posting how the shooter must be TRANS because of a manufacturer headstamp on the ammo?
  7. the god-emperor says so, duh
  8. reposting from the DT thread - one of the bullets had the word "catch" followed by ↑ → ↓ ↓ ↓ which is a helldivers call-in for a 500KG bomb this kid was extremely online
  9. Charlie Kirk was pushing the rhetoric and lies and the El Paso shooter cited as his reasons for doing what he did. You don't get to light match and claim ignorance over what it could lead to. Words and actions have consequences, and we live in a world full of crazy and unstable people with access to firearms, just like Charlie Kirk would have wanted. This is the price we all pay for stochastic terrorism run amok
  10. Holy shit that's probably actually it. Nice catch. Also it does look like this kid is at least 4chan adjacent. He was dressing up as pepe the frog memes for Halloween
  11. Only when the Party narrative demands it. Otherwise, the Dems are in disarray and complete out of touch with the youths
  12. Pretty strange that POTUS is breaking this news. He's desperate to get everyone to forget about his many wonderful secrets with Epstein
  13. Except for the blue on blue
  14. Yeah I'm right there with ya on the gun - I don't see a rifle on the person jumping down and I don't know how one person on their own moves it from the roof to the woods without carrying it or dropping it down ahead of them. There's still much to be discovered and much to be debunked. There's been a rush to point fingers and repeat the most inflammatory thing, and the FBI's best lead at the moment seems to be their tip line. It's crazy the FBI director fired a seasoned SAC that was a counterintelligence and counterterrorism expert from Utah, and then THIS happens a month later and they've got their dicks in their hands
  15. If you don't distort the image, it looks like a large cell phone
  16. Do they know he literally paid for bus tickets for people to go bash cops with fire extinguishers on January 6th? And that his media organization TPUSA has been the origination point of a shitton of disinformation online, as an intentional and concerted effort? There's journalism from the 2020 election about his efforts to #stopthesteal [Mod note: this is verifiable fact, happy to post links if necessary]
  17. This isn't strictly news on the shooting, but given the absolute lack of information from the feds and how the shooter has just disappeared leaving a frothing wake of hatred and broad calls for retribution... What if this was a foreign actor taking an inciting action? The Utah FBI office had been gutted a few months ago for reasons we can't discuss here, but the result is a vacuum of experience and skills at counter intelligence in that AO of the FBI. That's a nice soft target with a big payoff, if your end goal is to accelerate things and crank up the temperature and weaken our social cohesion. That's wild speculation, but it is an interesting lens to look at the fact that we know so far
  18. [Laughs nervously at Intel wifi chip on my mobo]
  19. Me personally, no. But a couple of my customers had China resources/interests and they basically firewall them off into their own sub-company and treat it like a clean room environment because of the concern over State spying or meddling. Never shall anything cross the firewall, and information here stays here and stuff from there stays there. In theory at least. But literally and technically, you can't just go and turn off VPN's. That's now how that works, or how any of this works. By the same token, we wouldn't allow HTTPS traffic either and we're back to sending passwords in the clear. There's going to be a real sticking point between what law enforcement wants, and what would completely destroy modern commerce and information assurance
  20. My Ruger American 30-06 could break down into a barrel and stock, but that takes some screws and fucking around with it. It doesn't look like he's got a rifle with him on the roof jumping down though so I have no idea where it could be. The wild thing is how the crime scene was immediately contaminated with clout chasers grabbing murder souvenirs, what an absolute mess being cleaned up by a podcast host and a children's book author
  21. Third time's the charm
  22. It bears repeating: TPUSA literally ran a business model of flooding the zone with coordinated wording, powered by teens Here's a story from 2020 about it, regarding his work on election truthers conspiracies that fueled January 6 https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/09/25/fake-social-media-turning-point-usa In a statement to the Post, Turning Point USA said the notion that they are sponsoring a troll farm is a “gross mischaracterization.” Instead, they're adapting to the coronavirus pandemic and paying people to do their jobs online that they would have otherwise paid them to do in the field, the statement added. Brookie says any work done in the field like Turning Point USA suggests, such as door knocking, would have received a much smaller audience than online. The purpose of these disinformation campaigns are to go viral, he says. Twitter and Facebook seem to be concerned because they have suspended some of the accounts associated with the Phoenix troll farm. Yet it’s unclear what the grounds are for yanking these accounts, he says. The social networks are facing enormous pressure to moderate the spread of fake information on their platforms during both an election year and global public health crisis, he says. Brookie says he’s “not entirely sure” if there’s any evidence that the Republican Party itself is at all involved in funding this kind of operation or funding Turning Point USA. Kirk, the organization’s founder, is an adamant supporter of President Trump. “He has attended multiple rallies with the Trump campaign. He's an outspoken advocate and surrogate for the campaign,” he says. “And so the amplification to a larger audience, regardless of the source of funding, is the same.”
  23. Shocker! Crowder was spreading hateful disinformation. He never does that!
  24. Fascists LOVE a reason to claim victimhood status, especially when they're the oppressive party in power. It's pretty historically consistent
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