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      That $50,000 bounty is likely a bigger payout than two years of wages as a burger flipper…

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        And this is how the elite force us “lowers” to fight against each other instead of fighting them.

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          It’s always been that way and will always be that way. The point isn’t to stop the infighting entirely, it’s to work in such ways as to reduce the impact it has on the goals we should be striving to achieve. Namely a better world for everyone.

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              It will always be this way because people have opinions and perspectives. The two best ways to lessen infighting is by having a simple and common end goal. The second is a leader. Find both of these and I guarantee people will follow.

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        It would be a shame if the person who sold out were publicly identified. Hopefully that will never ever happen.

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      First they let Trump work the fryer for a PR stunt, now this. Fucking McDonald’s…

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          I don’t eat at McDonald’s for a variety of reasons, but I doubt very much that the company has anything to do with the guy being called in.

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            Doesn’t matter. They’ve been at the forefront of bullshit lately, and their product is shit/expensive. McD’s is one of the organizations that needs to just end.

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      It sucks major but it could be someone who lives in a small bubble, doesn’t use social media, and only watches fox news. Or whatever local news channel. If that’s all they see, they might think they did the right thing. They could be oblivious.

      They could also be a bootlicker. Time will tell if we get more info. If their info is released the 50k probably won’t be worth it.

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      Idealistic teenagers will get you every time. Old enough to drink the Flavor Aid, young enough to not have the experience to temper it.

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        Nuance: unjustified murder is wrong. Someone who dedicates their life to destroying others for profit, murdering them is significantly less violent than letting them persist, and is therefore justified.

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          Nuance… There are people calling for violence against the McDonald’s employee who reported the murderer to the police.

          Tankies didn’t know the meaning of the word “nuance”. People who express nuance are “Nazi sympathizers” or “class traitors”. Anyone with a remotely “centrist” view is “sitting in a Nazi bar” and therefore culpable.

          This place is a shithole of absolute moralism.

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            The leading sentiment in this thread is that while that worker is indeed a class traitor, that their decision was at least understandable due to the financial crunch they’re likely in as a McDonald’s employee.

            YOU are exhibiting absolute moralism and an abandon of nuance by cherry picking a few extremists to represent the entire response that’s growing against the unethical direction health insurers’ have taken their industry.

            If you see a call for violence against the McD worker, report it.

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              Cherry picking??? There are tons of examples!

              “Fuck the people who reported him.”

              “That McDonald’s worker should be hiding”

              “The employee sent someone to live life in prison. As far as drag’s concerned, that is murder.”

              Something something “nazi bar” my friend. Or in this case it’s a “tankie bar”.

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                “Fuck the people who reported him.”

                Yeah, fuck em. They decided to be a piece of shit. That isn’t a call to violence.

                “That McDonald’s worker should be hiding”

                Probably should be - they just pissed off nearly an entire country. That isn’t a call to violence either.

                “The employee sent someone to live life in prison. As far as drag’s concerned, that is murder.”

                While not accurate, it’s still not a call to violence.

                …maybe cherry picking isn’t what you’re doing after all - it’s sounding more like you’re just making shit up and projecting some fantasy tankie persona onto the comments you don’t agree with.

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    You’re telling me the same guy who was proclaimed some kind of modern ninja-spy-assassin-genius on the back of his work in NYC was just stupidly waltzing around Altoona carrying an illegal ghost gun?

    Doubt.

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      It’s possible that the myth grew out of proportion to the reality because we all got a bit caught up in the romance of the thing…

      Though, like, I’d still absolutely hit that. Cut myself on those cheekbones, goddamn.

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      Personally think he underestimated the target this would paint on his back. Either that or he knew and was expecting to be caught.

      That’s the trouble with heroes becoming actual people and likely why media is covering who he is. Instead of being an unknowable symbol of defiance, we now have to grapple with the fact that he is human.

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        Assuming the latter given he apparently didn’t ditch the gun, clothing, and had a manifesto. Especially so if it’s true the gun was 3d printed, that would’ve been much easier to dispose of than an actual gun. Dudes had days and is in an area where they have easy cover to burn all of those things

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      Why would he be carrying all of the evidence including handwritten motives, the same fake ID and firearm with him to McDonald’s after days of being on the run? If he really wanted a ghost firearm, he could have had a second one that fired another caliber. Why would he still be wearing a face mask to make him look exactly like the pictures that were released and triggering people to think of him?

      Either this guy wanted to get caught, or we’re not getting the full story.

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      Hate to wonder whether the widespread public exoneration could lead folks heroes to get lazy or even take for granted that “the people” universally love them and would never turn them in.

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    Correction: random person who vaguely resembles images of a person in a similar jacket in unrelated images of alleged shooter selected as a sacrificial lamb by the incarceration industrial complex out of fear of the populace.

    FTFY

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    Catching the suspect came down to “good old-fashioned police work,” New York Mayor Eric Adams said Monday, citing the McDonald’s employee who called in a tip.

    Lol, you mean someone hitting the “easy” button and telling cops where he is? That’s “police work”? Waiting around for someone to do the work for you?

    Edit: I wouldn’t want to be the person collecting the reward for the arrest of this individual.

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      Good old fashioned police work: either waiting for someone else to do the work, or setting up some poor sad sack to pin the crime on.

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    Fuckin’ snitches.

    No wait, hang on, you’re telling me that this guy managed to get out of New York City after committing one of the most high profile killings ever and instead of laying low and waiting for the news to blow over he got caught in a McDonalds during an active manhunt with a fake I.D., the murder weapon, and a manifesto all on his person? Either he wanted to get caught, or I smell a scapegoat here. Can’t have America’s oldest gang losing face in front of their corporate sponsors, now can we?

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    Officer Tyler Frye, who has only been on the job for about six months, and a fellow officer responded to the McDonald’s where the suspect was spotted, the AP reports.

    They asked him to pull his blue medical mask down and “recognized him immediately” Frye said. “We didn’t even think twice about it, we knew that was our guy.”

    Frye said, “It feels good to get a guy like that off the street, especially starting my career this way, it feels great.”

    Yeah… Great job. I’m sure your corporate overloads will appreciate it.

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      They asked him to pull his blue medical mask down and “recognized him immediately” Frye said. “We didn’t even think twice about it, we knew that was our guy.”

      How? That guy could have come up to and knocked on my door, told me he was the guy while showing me the picture of him at Starbucks, and insisted he was the dude, and I still would have serious doubts. How the hell did someone at McDonald’s recognize him, call the police, and the police knew it was the suspect instantly with complete confidence?

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      Oh, ho hooo! Is funny because his corporate overlords will not appreciate it or recognise him at all! Ohhhh…

      Yeah thanks for coming, Fouad.

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    The suspect was at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania and was recognized by an employee who then called local police.

    I’m accusing parallel construction. The released photos have so little detail that there must be a hundred thousand Americans that match their appearance.

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      To be fair, the video of the shooter had the upper half of his face.

      And the guy they arrested has the upper half of his face.

      Although I have the upper half of my face.

      Do you have the upper half of your face? If not we can probably rule you out.

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    These companies don’t care about you, or your kids, or your grandkids. They have zero qualms about burning down the planet for a buck, so why should we have any qualms about burning them down to survive?

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    2 days ago the “experts” were telling us how the shooters planning and brains were why he got out of the city so easily. now we’re being told that he just happened to have the gun, silencer, fake id, and manifesto all on his person? not a chance, feel bad for this guy who’s obviously a scapegoat and just the first similar looking dude they found

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    Jury nullification occurs when a jury returns a Not Guilty verdict even though jurors believe beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant has broken the law. Because the Not Guilty verdict cannot be overturned, and because the jurors cannot be punished for their verdict, the law is said to be nullified in that particular case.

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      Can you believe Darrell Brooks attempted to argue for jury nullification in his defense? That was a wild trial.