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Pros always use silencers - but amateurs instigated/inspired by security services/spies, are meant to be caught and will confess
Also, jewel thieves don't abseil down from the ceiling.
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Which far right or fascist ruler came close to what Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot did in terms of numbers?
Which of those three that you named are killing people "right now"?
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Which of those three that you named are killing people "right now"?
Thankfully they are all dead, but not before killing high tens of millions. What "far right" ruler is killing millions right now?
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> who would want to carry this stupid heavy thing BART service started in Pleasanton in 1997. In 1992 or 1993 I had a glass CRT TV stolen during a burglary at our house in exurban Connecticut. There's no reason to claim that TV theft is some myth. It was a crime that did in fact happen.
Did the thief take transit, though? We had a similar NIMBY argument in the area where some totally-not-racist people said thieves were going to bike from a predominantly black neighborhood 15 miles away to steal TVs, and it was so blatantly wrong that the local chief of police noted that the burglars they catch use stolen trucks or SUVs for the cargo capacity.
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Huh. I figured "some CEOs do nasty things that get people killed, and get away with it" was a politically neutral observation of fact.
In the context of discussing a hypothetical murder committed during a home invasion robbery and murder, implying that a smarter criminal would become a CEO instead so they could legally kill people is an attempt to equate running a firm with committing home invasion robberies and murders. This is an extremely ideological statement, not neutral in the least; and the specific ideological framework grounding it is a cer…
It's not equating running a firm in general to committing home invasion robberies and murders. It's equating running a firm which kills people in the pursuit of profit as worse than committing home invasion robberies and murders. There are examples of such firms, so that part is just factual. The second part is a value judgment, but a simple "X worse than Y because X kills more people than Y" doesn't seem very ideological to me.
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I would point out that when it comes to these, right, far right and fascists win the numbers. And right now, it is far right who is having genocidal rhetorics.
Which far right or fascist ruler came close to what Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot did in terms of numbers?
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Another data point is that Jews are getting killed and assaulted around the world. With that said, I agree that for now there's no actual evidence supporting this allegation. But I wouldn't be totally shocked to learn that his ethnicity or zionist beliefs had something to do with this, if indeed he was Jewish (which hasn't been confirmed).
Left-handed people are getting killed and assaulted around the world, but no one ever seems to care about that open conspiracy! Every time a lefty gets cut off in traffic, it's just one more data point.
(This is a general statement responding to your analogy. As I mentioned in my earlier comment, I don't even know if this professor was Jewish or why he was killed.)
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One was a home invasion that may or may not be related to the victims work on fusion plasma. It is very likely unrelated to that work. The other was a mass shooting style event that targetted an exam preperation review hall populated by econ students and led by a 21-year-old teaching assistant. It's a stretch to connect an isolated murder of a field advancing physics researcher and a hall full of students just becaus…
Is there any evidence this murder was related to the professor's work?
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You thought only one person a year died during break ins gone wrong? Vending machines kill more than that.
Legalizing vending-machine concealed carry was our first mistake.