At least five decades, in fact.
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Maybe not. If that sticker is drawn from a meme. Well the alt riech and Trumps younger followers at r/thedonald are all about memes. About as weird a detail as the packet of white powder included with one of the bombs and Wasserman-Schultz as return address on all of them.
This shit looks trolly as hell.
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This is what happens when these people aren’t rebuffed for shipping prize tomatoes in mail…er, I mean, normally they fix the devices and send them somewhere useful. I am glad they weren’t trying to impress (foreign) state-run science labs or their ‘coding hand’ peeps. Wasn’t really seeing Soros or anyone playing with the things long enough to handle the triggers.
Wait, they might’ve seen that show where things turn into musical numbers. Then instead of sending reviews to the one person in each agricultural community in charge of ordering OTT, they made bombs for the 8 1/2-minute musical number? [-red strings- explode from a biodegradability-insensitive drinking straw] Something like that. This straw is great again by the way.
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“The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies… Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
-Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”
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Its 2018. People don’t generally send letters to each other anymore. Most legitimate packages have tracking data which authorities can read. Amazon doesn’t sell letter bombs. Detecting risky packages should be fairly simple now, at least when we are talking abut people who are known targets.
If there was something right with that, I missed it. DPHing though, this Goopboxing without the belief in effective good is it, right?
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And now in the news: suspicious package sent to Robert DeNiro.
If this is going to continue, we’ll be distracted from a lot of things for quite a while.
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Now that’s something to be afraid of!!
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Dammit, Gwyneth Paltrow!!
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And Joe Biden.
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Yeah one nutcase with a grudge is not as scary an a well orchestrated attempt to destroy what I love about this country.
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With each passing day it’s looking more and more likely that a neckbeard is behind these attacks
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The link is “Brown people are stealing our women!” I can’t remember who was interviewing a bunch of the Charlottesville mob and was shocked by how many were explicitly motivated by sexual frustration. Heavily sexualized media certainly promotes the idea that everybody else is having more sex than you are.
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That is a poorly worded headline. You can’t tell whether they were sending or receiving the packages.
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Add another one to the list folks
Also this opinion piece made a really good point
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You expect the occupant of the Oval Office to call these mailings a terrorist attack when he couldn’t be arsed to condemn the brutal murder of a journalist? I don’t. Par for the course for Mr. “Very Fine People on Both Sides”.
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Lately, the “Top Minds” at Reddit have started referring to liberals as “NPCs,” so it’s not surprising that whoever mailed these packages is not particularly concerned with who they harm or what could happen to innocent bystanders. They might think that they’ll just respawn.
There’s also currently a highly upvoted thread on r/conservative that concludes that the bombs must have been made by a liberal because none of them worked.
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