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  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I am becoming more and more convinced every day that this was a gladio-style attack. It genuinely seems like the cops were there to protect the shooter, or that the cops did most of the shooting themselves.

      • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        surely there’s at least one who would’ve been disgusted enough to anonymously report it

        :doubt:

      • D61 [any]
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        2 years ago

        If you realized what you were seeing, you'd have to consider if telling the truth would be worth the lives (and horrible deaths) of your entire family.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I mean blue wall of silence and all but surely there’s at least one who would’ve been disgusted enough to anonymously report it.

        How long did it take for the truth about gladio to come out?

        • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          What even is a Gladio now? I keep hearing about it on this website but I'm still not quite sure what it is

          • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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            2 years ago

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

            After WW2 the CIA and NATO set up armed cells of fascist insurgents that would fight against a “possible invasion by Warsaw countries.” These groups performed tons of awful terrorist attacks and killed a lot of civilians, and tried to blame a lot of them on left wing groups.

            Technically Gladio was only the name for the ones in Italy, but it’s generally used to refer to the whole system in Europe

    • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Hey now, those cops had to protect the shooters rights. What’re you, some freedom hating commie?

    • WindowSicko [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      That's my new conspiracy theory, that cops empathize more Mass Murderers, and will allow them to do whatever they want before peacefully taking them into custody if they don't off themselves first.

      Like that guy that took out a mass shooter and the cops executed or how the Uvalde shooter was take out by some ICE pig.

      Either that or they shot a kid and needed to give the shooter time to kill more to cover up things up.

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I think it's:

        1. Cops have no appetite for engaging someone who can shoot back.
        2. Cops get that mass shootings have always been spun as "I guess we need more money for cops." They can also fall back on this to justify their inaction or failure to prevent a shooting in the first place.
      • crime [she/her, any]
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        2 years ago

        There's also the creep who gunned down people in the Black church in Charleston that the cops took to Burger King after

        • FLAMING_AUBURN_LOCKS [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          so a lot of jails (local police station jails, the drunk tanks and the like, where people are kept before being sentenced to prison or taken to a larger jail) don’t have an on-site kitchen or a way of preparing food, and thankfully US law requires cops to not ignore people who mention being hungry. they need to pick you up something somewhere of you even allude to having not eaten recently. the downside of this is that the charleston church shooter gets a happy meal, but most of the time the point of the law is to make sure cops dont starve the usually poor and POC people they shove in the back of the car.

    • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I mean okay but occams razor, what does a gladio attack at a texas school get for the CIA?

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, I don’t have a good answer for that. But I also don’t know how to explain their behavior otherwise. Why were they literally fighting to stop anyone from stopping the shooter? Why are they so reluctant to give up any shred of information? The cops didn’t even stop the shooter in the end, it was a separate unit from CBP.

        When have you ever seen cops detain and disarm another cop for doing something like “Wanting to protect his wife”? This is weird even for cops.

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          When have you ever seen cops detain and disarm another cop for doing something like “Wanting to protect his wife”? This is weird even for cops

          maybe they just didn't want to get showed up

          • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            yeah, id say this. Everything they did was damage control after they fucked up the initial response maybe?

            • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              we think that they might have done something especially bad because who would be so inhuman as to stop a friend from rescuing their wife just so they don't look bad at work. The answer is cops

      • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah it's easy as a leftist to conspiracybrain, but as a general rule you have to think about like, who benefits. The cops already have APCs, and the military gets everything it wants. The security state is as big as it gets, you don't need to convince people to make it bigger.

    • VeganVelveeta [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      This is fucked up. Let’s not go full alex jones with this bullshit. Pigs really are this terrible

    • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      if its gladio theyre doing a bad job, part of the strategy of tension is pinning violence on both sides but the yankee left aint killed anyone lately