this shit is nuts man

the house just blew the fuck up like holy shit

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    This guy’s career involved information and physical security for the military and I’m assuming intelligence agencies (due to being in Virginia and Maryland). His pages suggest that he had a vendetta against the US, military, and intelligence agencies because they are racist and murderous against POC and the global south (which I mean… based), but also because they personally targeted him for whatever reason. He has a lot of numerology posts and believed that news reports were personally referencing him through subliminal means.

    He also seems to agree with sentiments from black activists and Chomsky, but also resent them because he thinks they get a pass for saying what he’s saying since they’re not Asian (i.e., the government is targeting him and Asian Americans)

    He was also a landlord

    So here’s my four guesses:

    1. He was a genius developer and/or small business owner who created some sort of military/intelligence application and the government tried to nickel and dime him or kill him because he knew too much. Read more on the Octopus Murders / Inslaw for a similar case.
    2. He was exposed first hand to the military abuses and intelligence deep state and became redpilled but also mentally ill after not being able to process the horrors which led him to Kaczynski-pilled.
    3. His college GPA was 3.75. It’s possible that he was a victim of the harassment and racist investigations of Asian academics and employees with sensitive information. This would definitely cause someone to lose their mind.
    4. He’s always had mental illness but 1, 2, 3, and the pandemic exacerbated it.

    Didn’t watch his videos because there are way too many. It’s possible that this is less sinister, and his mental illness combined suburban psychosis made him blow up his home. It’s not the first time we’ve seen people commit violence due to being terminally online in conspiratorial spaces since 2020.

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Broke: Filling your dog with 70 pounds of tannerite to blow up the ATF agents when they break in

    Woke: Replacing your entire house with tannerite to blow up the ATF agents when they break in

  • the_kid
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    1 year ago

    that wasn't a bomb, the house just did that

  • GaveUp [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    News article: https://www.arlnow.com/2023/12/04/part-of-bluemont-trail-closed-due-to-man-shooting-off-flare-gun/

    The house owner's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-yoo-3a847a164/

    The house owner's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesYoo47/videos

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I gave THEM / Y'ALL every opportunity to 'do the right thing' and all I see is America's hypocrisy, corruption, fraud, conspiracy, CHICKENSHAT.

      kitty-cri-texas I use them / y'all pronouns

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        that's a site tagline if i've ever seen one but it might be in bad taste since dude just exploded himself

        • happybadger [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Comrade Landlord killed a landlord and almost took out a SWAT team. Critical support unless the kulak hurt his tenants in the process.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Bad news. He’s cancelled

      Show

      Lmao

      Show

      It seems that he’s been slowly off the deep end for a while, but 2020 threw him off like it did for many people

      Show

      Supposedly this has been happening since 2017 and escalated in 2020

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        The feds 100% knew of this guy for years

        I'm betting they actively contributed to his sanity being lost further and further

        Poisoned his water or something like that probably

    • Flinch [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Can you not view LinkedIn without an account now? Is that new?

      • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        its been like that for ages I thought because they want to track who's looking at who for their narc features or whatever

    • cosecantphi [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Fuck, imagine taking all the time, effort, money, and risk to do THIS and not even managing to grievously injure a single officer. I'd be absolutely livid, kicking myself about it for the rest of my days in my cell at ADX Florence

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Damn, that was incredibly lucky for the house next to it not to come down too. I wonder if he did the napkin math to make sure of that, or if they just got lucky.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Gonna be interesting to see the first case of "To call it an improvised explosive device is, frankly, insulting."

    • D61 [any]
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      1 year ago

      Explody things are... weird.

      Probably some combination of fertilizer and welding gas or propane. Big boom but not a lot of "push". Loading everything to the street facing side of the house and above ground could use the walls/rooms to direct the blastwave out of the house towards the street and away from the neighbors house. Also could have loaded everything into the basement (seems like a house like that could have a basement) under the rooms where it would be most likely that somebody would try to enter. Then the entire basement would focus the blastwave up.

    • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Honestly it didn't look that powerful of a blast, and very contained to one side.

      My guess is he opened the valves on a gas stove, let the kitchen fill up, and when he fired the flare gun it went off. Lots of fire but very little in terms of explosion.