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[-] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 173 points 2 months ago

Is chilling how thenwhole internet is fed up a story of a man before his sentence. If this guy is innocent his whole life is already exposed forever just for memes and a penny. We are the big brother and we suck.

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 124 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The "we did it reddit!" phrase comes from redditors trying to track down suspects of the boston bombing. Redditors found a guy they strongly suspected, then found personal info on them and began harrassing him and family, including death threats.

It was the wrong person.

Imagine being that person accused! One day just living life, the next experiencing a horrible bombing, the next being tracked down by a misguided internet randos on a manhunt.

This is why having some basic privacy is important before you need it

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 59 points 2 months ago

it wasnt the internet that exposed him to the media, it was the police and feds who sold him out to the media. There is no "we did it" here. "They" did it.

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

Fair, this situation is different in a lot of ways

[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 months ago

I'm sorry, but just one detail from what I'm seeing on the linked article - "that person" committed suicide a month before any of that went down. I don't think it invalidates the point, even though being alive and present to be interrogated might've changed things, but it comes off comical when talking about how horrible the experience must've been.

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

You're right! I should have said "those people accused" because there were multiple suspects. The one I linked was the most prominent of them. Sorry!

[-] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Still horrible for his family...

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

im big skeptical of the photos and videos they've been circulating. everything about this investigation is sus.

[-] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Yeah the real guy is gone, the cops are finding someone to blame it on because they are afraid of continuing to totally fumble the bag.

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Luigi just now said the NYPD planted evidence.

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[-] MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 145 points 2 months ago

It just shows anyone can do the right thing

[-] superkret@feddit.org 131 points 2 months ago

He did everything right and believed in the system.
And then he himself, or someone close to him, got a diagnosis that ensured life-long medical debt and poverty.

[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 77 points 2 months ago

He seems to have had a spinal surgery and had pins put in his spine. Books he's looked at seems to indicate chronic pain and fights with insurance companies.

It was exactly what every single person thought who wasn't paid to think otherwise.

[-] sudoshakes@reddthat.com 56 points 2 months ago

Had exact same fusion performed.

4 screws, 2 rods to connect them, and a 3-d sintered titanium cage between the vertebrae.

I can attest to the chronic pain and wanting to armor a bulldozer

[-] eupraxia 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

chronic pain conditions are something our healthcare and disability systems specifically don't handle well and I haven't met anyone suffering from them that doesn't want to [redacted].

my experience with it has been nebulous and hard to diagnose but incredibly disabling. certain treatments like acupuncture or cupping that specifically target fascia, or shit like somatic therapy, aren't really legitimized by insurance so absent of a diagnosis with a known intervention your choices are to go to a pain clinic and take something possibly addictive or pay your way into alt medicine providers who can either be exactly who you need or hokey grifters.

and I can only imagine the hell that insurance companies put you through for surgical interventions they are supposed to cover but definitely don't want to. reading my partner's rejection letters from her company disability provider has been fucking fascinating

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 107 points 2 months ago

The privatized healthcare system happened.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 91 points 2 months ago

The simplest answer is he was pissed at UHC for denying medical claims for him or the ones he loved, and the CEO had dialed up the denials so an obvious target.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 months ago

iirc on one of his social medias the banner was a back X-ray with medical nails or screws in it. I assume he (or someone he knows) was having back issues and got denied.

[-] Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

His former college roommate said he always struggled with back problems which is one reason he tried to work out so much

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 86 points 2 months ago

Someone said he was in a surfing accident and needed pins/plates put in his back. His profile (https://i.imgur.com/2g1ZGBa.png) shows an X-ray of a back that's had surgery done on it.

He's 26 and just come off his parents' healthcare. [Except his family is wealthy, so I'm not sure if this one is relevant or not.]

[-] devils_advocate@sh.itjust.works 73 points 2 months ago

You can be wealthy and not be "pay your own medical bills" wealthy.

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[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 25 points 2 months ago

Sometimes you can have wealthy parents and still barely make ends meet

[-] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

This, also, just because he may have had good coverage to do the surgery, stuff like that can have lifelong consequences that can need routine, expensive, medical care, for years, if not the rest of your life. Even if they are getting care, their insurance, even "good" insurance, could have denied much better therapy, for the cheaper route, which will have a major negative impact.

It is too early to be making up our minds about this arrest, this guy, etc. However, just because your parents have money, doesn't mean you can escape the evils of the private healthcare system.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago

ITT: some really healthy skepticism over some of the “evidence” allegedly written by the shooter. I’m kinda impressed. Some other lemmy communities are leaning harder in to conspiracy ideas (planted evidence or whatever), but quite a few of the comments here are taking the time to analyze the info.

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

We really just don’t know yet. And likely won’t know until the trial (if there even will be a trial).

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[-] zeezee@slrpnk.net 52 points 2 months ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 months ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago

The libertarian flag is yellow and black. The anarchist flag is black and red.

The implication is that a libertarian only looks like an anarchist by proximity. As soon as they're left to their own devices, they're revealed to be Christian Nationalists (the black symbol on white robes is used by the Klan.)

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago
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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Most ancaps/right-libertarians are often just right-authoritarians that like drugs, addicted to loli-hentai (although this one is falling out of fashion due to "nofap" reasons), weirdly "free speech extremists", etc. Exceptions may apply.

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

I think labeling is so fucking stupid. Like I get that it’s easier to shove a label on people and yourself, but we’re seriously assigning an entire fucking socio-political economic identity to this kid from like 2 Goodreads reviews and a few Facebook posts?

Gimme a fucking break

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[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 months ago

Back pain is a hell of a drug.

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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Law Abiding Citizen 2 plotline. Honestly this event really remind me of that movie, all those killed is worthy of "ohh no...anyway"

[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 37 points 2 months ago

He was activated as a sleeper agent by the [redacted]

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 33 points 2 months ago

People are dying. Evil has become institutionalized. Corporations make billions of dollars off the pain, suffering, death, and anguished cries in the night of millions of Americans.

Based.

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[-] MrEff@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Two lines from the bottom they are missing:

Discovered DOTA2

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This implies the existence of two other CEO assassins working the Broadway and Wall Street lanes

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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 17 points 2 months ago

They really got him? Or is this just some ruse?

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[-] boogiebored@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Activation of The Division has begun.

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