Notices by Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social), page 2

His last activity on GitHub was in 2021. Interesting.

Duuuude he was his HS class valedictorian!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219804626

He appears to have been a full-on techbro as of March.

Good luck spinning this guy's social media presence into a narrative that benefits CEOs, billionaires, corporations, or the right.

He also posted that Tim Urban's book "What's our problem?" would be considered "one of the most important philosophical texts of the 21st century."

You know who else is an Urban fan? Elon Musk.

So, we have an Elon Musk & Peter Thiel fanboy who over the span of <6 months decided that the thing that "had to be done" was to murder the CEO of a health insurance company.

"Ill will toward corporate America" only describes about 200 million Americans. Good policework there, NYPD.

But, honestly, who the hell carries documents proving they committed a crime? Smells like planted evidence to me.

@flyingsaceur I would like to propose the alternate theory that learning C breaks your brain such that it becomes difficult to understand Lisp.

@screwtape @hayley

How come no mainstream media seems to have picked up on the fact that the photos the NYPD (ACAB) have released show guys in two different jackets? Seems like they're just finding other surveillance footage of people who vaguely look like the shooter.

This is why mass surveillance is bad: it enables fishing expeditions like this and dramatically increases the chance innocent people will end up getting charged with crimes just because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong thing.

The guy whose face they show has:

1. A different hood
2. A different color jacket
3. Breast pockets on his jacket
4. A different color bag (which appears to be a duffel or messenger bag, not a backpack)
5. A differently shaped nose
6. Different eyebrows

NYPD are flat out lying.

No article even seems to show the different sets of photos together. They just focus on the "unmasked" photos with a guy wearing an obviously different jacket than the guy in the "masked" photos.

I suppose it's remotely possible that these are the same person, but by what means could anyone possibly conclude that they were? They have nothing in common.

Honestly, rich people murdering one another is probably better than having angry proletarians do it, since the latter will provoke a backlash. Eventually the proletariat will need to get involved in the killing or at least expropriation, but better for the rich to whittle down their own population first.

Holy shit, has "Radicalized" come true, or is this a spat among rich people? The use of a silencer makes me suspect the latter, as it sounds like a professional hit.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/04/unitedhealth-cancels-investor-day-after-reports-of-executive-shot-in-manhattan.html

@cwebber What's stopping states from doing anything about it? Even states where the Democrats have had a trifecta for many years still have food deserts. California has the 6th largest economy in the world and could easily tell Walmart they're not allowed to kill off smaller stores, but they don't. Which would seem to indicate that the root of the problem isn't a single policy change but that politicians in general are beholden to corporate interests.

@LunaDragofelis @skinnylatte I think this is where we get the talk about "Friscorp" etc. White people want clearer lines of segregation so they don't get affected by anti-Black stuff like food deserts. And the various proposed "solutions" nearly always come with other anti-Black measures attached.

Economists say that economics isn't zero-sum because in any voluntary transaction both parties come out ahead, except:

1. Very few real-world transactions are truly voluntary due to a power differential between the parties.

and perhaps more importantly:

2. There is no set of voluntary exchanges that can make one the legitimate owner of any natural resource. And of course any nonrenewable resource is fundamentally zero sum.

So while it may be theoretically possible for transactions to be positive-sum, the vast majority of apparent economic progress comes from increases in extraction and exploitation, and technological advancements.

The end result is that the west (in fact the entire "developed" world) is actually MUCH poorer than it thinks it is, because it doesn't realize how much of its apparent wealth is built on the backs of poorer nations. Which is why the amount of violence being perpetrated or instigated by the west seems to be increasing exponentially: it's hit the limit of its ability to exploit the world and its people.

Palestine is a microcosm of what capital does to the entire planet. There is no saving the planet that does not begin with saving Palestine.

The US putting nuclear weapons in Ukraine would be completely identical to the USSR trying to put nuclear weapons in Cuba. You know, the thing that the US was ready to launch a nuclear first strike over?