Kinda love that the breathless media is trying to spin this as a senseless act of violence. Why the hell are you telling the masses what the assassin wrote on the bullets if it makes him look like a folk-hero? Is the media really that detached? Do these people think the Sheriff of Nottingham was the good guy?

[–] mudpuppy@hexbear.net 101 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

i don't understand how they benefit from telling us but i'm really glad they did. they totally could have kept that secret forever and it would have made the entire thing way less powerful

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 78 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Profit. It's the hot news story right now and every detail can get harvested for views and therefore ad revenue. That's all there is to it.

[–] mudpuppy@hexbear.net 60 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the cops though, why did they release the info

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 60 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Probably so they could spin up some bullshit about online radicalization or whatever

[–] OrionsMask@hexbear.net 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I too get online radicalised when my online loved one gets online cancer and is online denied by my online health insurance.

[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

Huh that’s funny. Same thing happened to me with Minecraft.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 52 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago

sicko-yes

[–] mudpuppy@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

They are gonna ban masks in Manhattan, and ask the courts to please let them suck up even more data without warrants.

[–] newmou@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

Capitalist realism

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 89 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The media class are in a profound social echo chamber, the very idea anyone would oppose the elites and celebrate resistance is literally incomprehensible to them, they're not educated enough to even think about this abstractly, most of them were trust fund brats of one kind or another, their brains are just not wired for this

On the otherhand the cops are just happy to have someone "worthy" to hunt, whose capture or killing will give them a kind of fascist glory and social media cred

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago

Yahya Sinwar levels of 'maybe this will make him look bad' self own

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 weeks ago

yup, the linked abc news article didn't even try to guess what "deny, defend, depose" meant.

[–] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

People forget Guy Fawkes wanted the U.K. to be more authoritarian.