Possible Assassin Arrested At RNC

[rjs330]

Well it is suspicious at this point and awfully close to the convention. After one attempt it's certainly not unreasonable some nut might decide to join the party.

Will we find out more about him?

 

[Pommer]

“It happened Monday on North 11th Street near West Juneau Avenue That's about a three-minute walk to the nearest RNC vehicle screening checkpoint on North 9th and West Winnebago streets.”

IOW, he was a few blocks away. He could’ve been fixing to rob his dealer for all we know.

Probably a procrastinator, who planned a jewelry store heist for May but kept putting it off?

 

[Pommer]

I am still waiting for the day that TikTok is banned.

It’s only going to be banned for the “wrong people” owning it…if they sell to Americans, it’ll stay.
It’s a capitalist shakedown, “hey this here’s a nice social-media-platform that you have, that we want, sell it to us or we’ll burn it down.”

 

[Ana the Ist]

Draco

FOR COMPACT USE, DRACO DELIVERS!

www.centuryarms.com

Yea, I never heard of a "AK-47 Pistol" until this thread....then again, I'm a bit behind on the firearms of the day.

I don't know if it's shooting a pistol round or simply is the same as the rifle without the stock (which seems very hard to shoot in 7.62).

 

[Ana the Ist]

“It happened Monday on North 11th Street near West Juneau Avenue That's about a three-minute walk to the nearest RNC vehicle screening checkpoint on North 9th and West Winnebago streets.”

IOW, he was a few blocks away. He could’ve been fixing to rob his dealer for all we know.

Now now....assuming he's both a thief and addict just because he's black?

Tsk tsk.

 

[Ana the Ist]

It’s only going to be banned for the “wrong people” owning it…if they sell to Americans, it’ll sask.

Owning it....collecting data from it...using it for social engineering...

It’s a capitalist shakedown, “hey this here’s a nice social-media-platform that you have, that we want, sell it to us or we’ll burn it down.”

That's not how capitalist shakedowns work lol.

First, they come up with a highly competitive similar app to drive down the value of TikTok. Once they've grabbed enough of the user base, they buyout TikTok and kill the competitive app.

Then they make the app ad-free for a monthly subscription fee, which then gets divided up into tiers so that suckers believe they're paying for something premium when they used to be able to use the app for free for the exact same service.

Then they paywall the most popular content (whatever that is) and offer users the ability to "interact" with content creators for money.

You build a large base of "talented" creators by incentivizing these paid interactions with payouts to the creators.

Once you've maximized growth, then you extract the maximum amount from both creators and users through this monetization process and throw the advertisements back in for what is now a subscription required app.

That @Pommer, is a capitalist shakedown. I've also heard that "capitalist shakedown" is a new dance trend on TikTok.

 

[Ana the Ist]

This was the weapon the guy had? It says "Romania" on the side.

It's a picture of a similar gun from my understanding....not the exact same weapon had by the suspect.

I was born near there in Bulgaria about 220 miles (350 km) from Romania, and adopted before the age of 2. Glad I do not live in Eastern Europe, cos it can be violent over there.

Bulgaria huh?

Last thing I saw about Bulgaria is illegals crossing into Poland from there killed a Polish border guard....with a spear.

So now Poland has authorized lethal force on illegals who get out of line.

 

[Pommer]

Owning it....collecting data from it...using it for social engineering...



That's not how capitalist shakedowns work lol.

First, they come up with a highly competitive similar app to drive down the value of TikTok. Once they've grabbed enough of the user base, they buyout TikTok and kill the competitive app.

Then they make the app ad-free for a monthly subscription fee, which then gets divided up into tiers so that suckers believe they're paying for something premium when they used to be able to use the app for free for the exact same service.

Then they paywall the most popular content (whatever that is) and offer users the ability to "interact" with content creators for money.

You build a large base of "talented" creators by incentivizing these paid interactions with payouts to the creators.

Once you've maximized growth, then you extract the maximum amount from both creators and users through this monetization process and throw the advertisements back in for what is now a subscription required app.

That @Pommer, is a capitalist shakedown. I've also heard that "capitalist shakedown" is a new dance trend on TikTok.

Why go through all the trouble off out-competing TikTok when they can just shut it down if ByteDance doesn’t cave?
You know nothing Jon Snow.

 

[dzheremi]

TikTok is not doing anything that Facebook et al. aren't also doing in the realm of data collection, social engineering, or anything else you can name. Anyone remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal? The calls to shut down TikTok are quite clearly another avenue by which to continue our ongoing simmering intelligence/trade war with China.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Why go through all the trouble off out-competing TikTok when they can just shut it down if ByteDance doesn’t cave?

It's all about lowering the sale price.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Now now....assuming he's both a thief and addict just because he's black?

Tsk tsk.

My libtard card is going to be confiscated any moment.

 

[AlexB23]

It's a picture of a similar gun from my understanding....not the exact same weapon had by the suspect.




Bulgaria huh?

Last thing I saw about Bulgaria is illegals crossing into Poland from there killed a Polish border guard....with a spear.

So now Poland has authorized lethal force on illegals who get out of line.

Yeah, it is a similar one, by the same company, if I am not mistaken.

Yeah, Bulgaria has a lot of issues, hence why my parents adopted me.

I have never heard about the Bulgarian vigilante with a spear, but just looked it up. He is real, though he patrolled the Turkish border in 2016. :

Bulgaria's vigilante migrant 'hunter'

A Bulgarian trader in spare parts for buses has become a national celebrity after starting to patrol the Turkish border "hunting" for migrants.

www.bbc.com

Another incident at Belarus happened, where a migrant ended the life of a Polish border guard with a knife in 2024:

Poland to strengthen EU's eastern flank after migrant stabs guard at Belarus border

Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced plans to reinforce the EU's eastern flank after an asylum seeker attacked a Polish border guard with a knife while trying to cross the border with Belarus.

www.euractiv.com

 

[AlexB23]

My libtard card is going to be confiscated any moment.

Join the centrists, my friend. No one will confiscate your centrist card.

Though, the far-left and the far-right might not like what centrists have to say.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Join the centrists, my friend. No one will confiscate your centrist card.

Though, the far-left and the far-right might not like what centrists have to say.

For the record, I actually consider myself a technocrat. As long as they're aware of the limitations of their models, I'm happy to let the nerds run things regardless of where their policies may fall on the left-right spectrum.

 

[AlexB23]

For the record, I actually consider myself a technocrat. As long as they're aware of the limitations of their models, I'm happy to let the nerds run things regardless of where their policies may fall on the left-right spectrum.

I like technology also, as long as we use it for good, and the tech is more open source instead of run by massive corporations. Renewable tech is also good for helping our country get off of foreign oil.

Hence, why the AI on my laptop is open-weights, and runs on an open source front end known as GPT4All, and why I use LibreOffice instead of MS Word. However, my laptop still runs Windows 10, but I might switch to Linux.

 

[rjs330]

My libtard card is going to be confiscated any moment.

That's okay we all have our unconscious biases.

 

[Ana the Ist]

My libtard card is going to be confiscated any moment.

Lol I will say that work gets fun when you inject wild assertions about implied racial bias unseriously into casual conversations.

"Hey, do you know which printer is working?"

"Whoa whoa whooooaaa...just because I'm a white man in a position of power and authority doesn't mean that I have dominion over the printers as well. I'm trying to empower you and your problem solving abilities in this cis-hetero-normative-patriarchy....also no, I have no idea which printer is working."

The key is to say it with optimum smugness. Always gets a laugh.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Join the centrists, my friend. No one will confiscate your centrist card.

Though, the far-left and the far-right might not like what centrists have to say.

Far-left and far-right don't believe centrists exist lol. You're just not them in disguise.

 

[AlexB23]

Far-left and far-right don't believe centrists exist lol. You're just not them in disguise.

Yeah, that is the sad reality. Centrists are invisible in our society, even though centrists exist. My guy, @chevyontheriver could be considered to be a centrist.

Glad I am not part of the far-right or far-left. Woo, yeah.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

I guess we can't "technically and definitively" say for sure whether he was planning to be an assassin, but yes, that's what the gut reaction would be if I were a betting man.

I've seen other people give the benefit of the doubt (although, it's not a flattering benefit of the doubt) that he was possibly on is way to commit some other type of crime...

But none the less, he's either the worst assassin ever (for wearing the stereotypical regalia of a cheesy assassin in a Steven Seagal movie), or he's the worst armed robber ever by wearing his "disguise" and carrying his gear through an area in broad daylight that's certain to have an increased law enforcement presence due to the RNC happening and the events of the past few days.