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ChubbyStar

(3,191 posts)
11. I concur, my theory media is promulgating some ounce of intelligence or thoughtfulness
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 07:35 PM
Aug 2019

to the killers. You know, it makes the killer compelling to the TV, radio, internet listener. It is complete avarice and crass exploitation of the event, but it is making the media bank.

I mean could they really admit, "well Marsha it looks like the police found a crayon written note, on the back of a napkin from The Champagne Room?"

lame54

(35,313 posts)
17. The unibomber wrote a manifesto...
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 08:41 PM
Aug 2019

I have never heard it called anything else

It was complete gibberish

Nothing intellectual about it

hlthe2b

(102,331 posts)
4. A soft-pedal... They know that they are going to have to address the link to Trump incitement and
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 07:13 PM
Aug 2019

racism and they are putting it off as long as possible.

Sapient Donkey

(1,568 posts)
13. Has the 8chan posting been confirmed to be his?
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 07:39 PM
Aug 2019

Those parts of the internets are known to make stuff up just to add to the confusion and mayhem.

uponit7771

(90,348 posts)
14. They soft pedal White nationalist terrorism too much !! Call Trump inspired racist terrorism
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 07:41 PM
Aug 2019

... just that and if be more impressed.

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sanatanadharma

(3,714 posts)
16. It would have been a manifest if...
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 08:32 PM
Aug 2019

It would have been a manifest if...

if he had used magazine format, but he clipped it.

Sad! Too much enemy and too little empathy.
Sick! Too much stupidity and too little civility.
Sucks! Too much trump and too little truth.
Spin! Two many right turns turns into a circle of insanity.

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