• ɔiƚoxɘup@sh.itjust.works
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    Normally, I’d say it’s poor taste to speak ill of the dead. Normally.

    That’s not what the motivation is here. The media are

    • aware that the family can bury them
    • afraid to lose their jobs
    • beholden to their masters shareholders (or their Rupert Murdochs)
    • trying to make this go away
    • not on the side of the American people
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      For media companies it’s not usually shareholders that call the shots, it’s one obscenely rich old guy, like Rupert Murdoch.

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    separated from his wife for years

    Remember that according to the FBI more than half of murderers know their victims personally, and about a quarter are family relations.

    I think the police really need to drop this whole “assassination” false flag and investigate the more probable angles. Could be that he was closeted and killed by a jilted lover, or the husband of the secretary he was banging, or a hitman hired by the estranged wife. No sense in harassing every man with a green jacket over this.

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    Props to Klippenstein, he’s consistently been an exemplar* of good journalism

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      Kenny Klipps does great work, one of the very few last bastions of actual journalism remaining in America.

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      Props to Klippenstein, he’s consistently been an examlar of good journalism

      When David Grusch testified that UFOs are real, Klippenstein made a point of exposing that Grusch had past issues with PTSD and alcoholism stemming from his service.

      Examlar indeed.

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        lol. You guys had me looking up “examlar” thinking I was going to learn a new word.

        My hopes were dashed as I’ve discovered that you two just misspelled “exemplar”. Probably on purpose. I’m sure of it. How dare you!

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          Whoops lol, not both of us just me. But yes, both entirely intentional and also daeviosly malicious 😈

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    mind that if this were a black child shot in the back by a white supremacist they would be researching his life day and night to find maybe one photo where he made a weird hand sign so they can say he was no angel and maybe he was a gang member who knows …

    but an actual demon gets killed and the opposite campaign begins

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      Nah, they have definitely scoured back years of Facebook photos just to find a single one that isn’t gang signs or posing with an illegal-in-illinois handgun.

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    It reminds me of the whole “don’t speak ill of the dead” as if them dying suddenly exonerates them from being a massive pile of shit while they were alive.

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    Whenever it’s someone killed by the cops they immediately expose anything negative they can find about the victim.