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Numerous_Vegetable_3 t1_jegh64m wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in FBI: Mandalay Bay shooter in Las Vegas who killed 58 was angry about how casinos treated him by YourUncleBuck
Absolutely no idea but the lack of apparent motive & constant changing of the story + restricted access to the people who were involved doesn't help.
Coming out with this absolute bullshit motive doesn't help. The shooter was researching rooms above large concerts for months before Vegas, he even booked a room above lolapalooza in Chicago and didn't check in. He was planning this for a while and researching sites that had nothing to do with casinos or gambling.
This shooting is one of the strangest ones. I don't think anybody has a good idea of the truth, but I think we can all agree that we don't have it yet.
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Numerous_Vegetable_3 t1_jegg8ab wrote
Reply to comment by DJSugarSnatch in FBI: Mandalay Bay shooter in Las Vegas who killed 58 was angry about how casinos treated him by YourUncleBuck
This one gets to me. I do not support conspiratorial thinking, but this one irks me after all this time.
From the Wikipedia article "He had researched large-scale venues in cities such as Boston since at least May 2017,[10] and had reserved a room overlooking the August 2017 Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, but did not use it.[11]"
So... he was researching large concerts months before the shooting, in places that have nothing to do with casinos...
Whatever the real story is with this shooting, we don't have it.
"A report published by the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in January 2019 said that "there was no single or clear motivating factor" for the shooting.[77]"
The Behavioral Analysis Unit is serious business and if anyone could find a motive it would be them.
Some background (from the little we have) on the shooter is strange "He was a son of Benjamin Paddock, a bank robber who was on the FBI's most-wanted list between 1969 and 1977.[92]"
And the weirdest thing to me: "Investigators found hidden surveillance cameras that were placed inside and outside the hotel room, presumably so Paddock could monitor the arrival of others.[67] The cameras were not in record mode.[68] Police said a handwritten note found in the room indicated Paddock had been calculating the distance, wind, and trajectory from his 32nd floor hotel suite to the concertgoers he was targeting on the festival lot.
So some dude, who was pictured at a womens march in a vagina hat, is setting up monitoring devices, calculating wind & trajectory to perpetrate this... for what? If he had a manifesto, we haven't seen it. We've seen more footage from the shooting 2 days ago.
forbiddenmemeories t1_jegg5fu wrote
Reply to comment by mritty in Rey Mysterio: The Beating That I Give My Son Is Dedicated To All Those Dads Putting Up With Their Kids by Retloh
So, is this the same son who was secretly fathered by Eddie Guerrero, and to whom Mysterio then had to defeat Guerrero in a Ladders match to win the custody battle?
puerto-recon t1_jegg0w7 wrote
Reply to comment by ackillesBAC in San Jose police union exec charged with attempt to import, sell valeryl fentanyl, officials say by MySixSense
ALL
DecepticonStryker t1_jegfh6q wrote
Reply to comment by zitmanthefive in Portland man laughed ‘maniacally’ while chasing pedestrian in stolen $80k forklift, police say by Jorgyjorg32
¡Olé!
Happypappy007 t1_jegem24 wrote
Reply to comment by Lingz31 in Iran’s state TV apologizes for airing images of couple kissing by carolinaindian02
Everyone should care. We all have a stake in making sure every human being can live a fulfilling life free from governmental violence. It’s one of the founding principles of the UN.
Silence is complicity.
perineum_420 t1_jege2qu wrote
Reply to San Jose police union exec charged with attempt to import, sell valeryl fentanyl, officials say by MySixSense
She should also be charged with attempted murder as a distributed amount of fent comes with a statistical proportion of overdose fatalities
Lingz31 t1_jege1vv wrote
Reply to comment by Happypappy007 in Iran’s state TV apologizes for airing images of couple kissing by carolinaindian02
Why do you care? Its Their country let them be...
halfbakedpizzapie t1_jegdttf wrote
Chocolate two-face!
The_Magic_8Ball_Says t1_jegdoky wrote
Reply to comment by RockyMountainHigh- in FBI: Mandalay Bay shooter in Las Vegas who killed 58 was angry about how casinos treated him by YourUncleBuck
It is decidedly so.
JustYourAvgJester t1_jegd5qw wrote
Reply to San Jose police union exec charged with attempt to import, sell valeryl fentanyl, officials say by MySixSense
I bet she went to church every Sunday.
JhonnyHopkins t1_jegd2zw wrote
Reply to comment by herbdoc2012 in San Jose police union exec charged with attempt to import, sell valeryl fentanyl, officials say by MySixSense
If it helps you sleep at night, they do this in hopes of cracking down on even more dealers or even a king pin if they’re lucky. If they catch just two more low level dealers with the narcs information… they’re actually saving more kids.
Slampumpthejam t1_jegd2tm wrote
Reply to FBI: Mandalay Bay shooter in Las Vegas who killed 58 was angry about how casinos treated him by YourUncleBuck
Nah doesn't line up. What makes a lot more sense is be was a right wing nutjob.
>>Did the FBI Downplay the Far-Right Politics of Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock?
>Paddock appeared fixated on three pillars of right-wing extremism: anti-government conspiracy theories, threats to Second Amendment rights, and overly burdensome taxes. For instance, one witness told Las Vegas police that Paddock was “kind of fanatical” about his anti-government conspiracies and that he believed someone had to “wake up the American public” and get them to arm themselves in response to looming threats. Family members and associates of Paddock painted a picture of a man who loathed restrictions on gun ownership and believed that the Second Amendment was under siege, according to our review of their statements to investigators after the shooting and other documents compiled by the authorities.
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/22/stephen-paddock-las-vegas-shooting-far-right/
>But tantalizingly, people who encountered Paddock before his shooting say that he expressed conspiratorial, anti-government beliefs, which are characteristic of the far right.
>In a handwritten statement, one woman says she sat near Paddock in a diner just a few days before the shooting, while out with her son. She said she heard him and a companion discussing the 25th anniversary of the Ruby Ridge standoff and the Waco siege. (Each of these incidents became touchstones for a rising anti-government militia movement in the 1990s.)
>She says she heard him and his companion saying that courtroom flags with golden fringes are not real flags. The belief that gold-fringed flags are those of a foreign jurisdiction, or “admiralty flags”, is characteristic of so-called “sovereign citizens”, who believe, among other things, that the current US government, and its laws, are illegitimate.
>“At the time,” her statement says, “I thought, ‘Strange guys’ and wanted to leave.”
>Another man, himself currently in jail, says he met Paddock three weeks before the shooting for an abortive firearms transaction, in the carpark of a Bass Pro Shop. The man was selling schematic diagrams for an auto sear, a device that would convert semi-automatic weapons to full automatic fire. Paddock asked him to make the device for him, and the man refused.
>At this point Paddock launched into a rant about “anti-government stuff … Fema camps”. Paddock said that the evacuation of people by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) after Hurricane Katrina was a a “dry run for law enforcement and military to start kickin’ down doors and ... confiscating guns”. “Somebody has to wake up the American public and get them to arm themselves,” the man says Paddock told him. “Sometimes sacrifices have to be made.
Swampwolf42 t1_jegd0ja wrote
Reply to San Jose police union exec charged with attempt to import, sell valeryl fentanyl, officials say by MySixSense
But by all means, let’s continue to blame Latino refugees.
thirdeyefish t1_jegcqxz wrote
Reply to Portland man laughed ‘maniacally’ while chasing pedestrian in stolen $80k forklift, police say by Jorgyjorg32
I feel like the value of th forklift is not an important part of this.
strangelander29 t1_jegcc0k wrote
Reply to comment by Ray_Pingeau in Pope to leave hospital after 'eating pizza for dinner' by kangarooturd
It was a tough evening at Medieval Times' Crusades Tuesdays.
meabandit t1_jegc9p1 wrote
Reply to comment by Devi1_May_Cry in Executive Director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association charged with importing fentanyl by ChocolateTsar
Maybe there is less confusion if you just refer to as *PD since it's all the same racket. America's crime response force by fighting crime with crime.
Sad_Butterscotch9057 t1_jegbivn wrote
Reply to comment by DJSugarSnatch in FBI: Mandalay Bay shooter in Las Vegas who killed 58 was angry about how casinos treated him by YourUncleBuck
Manifesto: if you want it published, send it to lots of domestic and foreign media, both.
DUMP_LOG_DAVE t1_jegantk wrote
Reply to comment by ackillesBAC in San Jose police union exec charged with attempt to import, sell valeryl fentanyl, officials say by MySixSense
Indeed. There’s the glaring issue of police culture. Tribalism is so deeply entrenched in American society that it’s no fucking wonder why law and order built around “us versus them” has done nothing but generate hostility. Good intentions aside, the fact most cops are absolute morons means this culture is going absolutely nowhere without really upending policing in America. It fucking SUCKS how corrupt and racist these power wielding assholes are. Same goes for politicians. It makes me so damn sad.
Roundaboutsix t1_jegadsc wrote
Reply to One in ten Britons have performed dentistry on themselves, half in the last two years by Schneetmacher
I worked with a woman who used to buy used dental tools on EBay so that she could work on herself. She had funny looking teeth, few friends and low self esteem, however, she claimed to have remarkable success with her experimental dentistry.
neotericnewt t1_jega9mc wrote
Reply to comment by btross in Woman hospitalized after being pranked for TikTok video in Target store by GaryOaksAlcoholism
I don't think I am minimizing the situation, I think I'm treating the situation as it is. Some kids put a plastic bucket over someone's head. That's it. That's all they did. That's what people are frothing at the mouth about.
I mean seriously, what do you actually think should happen? You think the kids should get charged with assault? Like the other commenters you think they should get beat to a pulp and sent to the hospital?
I think an apology to the woman is all that should happen. They shouldn't have done it, but it was largely a harmless joke. They didn't know that the person had an anxiety disorder and would freak out over it. It was a dumb thing to do, but hey, kids do stupid shit all the time, and this was a pretty minor thing all in all.
Numerous_Vegetable_3 t1_jeghfsm wrote
Reply to comment by zaphrous in FBI: Mandalay Bay shooter in Las Vegas who killed 58 was angry about how casinos treated him by YourUncleBuck
Yep most people that actually make money from it are playing 4+ games simultaneously.