How is this not bigger news?

  • shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Can’t seem to find the ‘reply’ button on any comments in any threads anymore, they musta changed something… so I gotta create a top level comment now to reply.

    “So, just like the 9/11 hijacking changes everything about how people respond to a hijacking event, this changes everything about answering your door. You see someone dressed as a cop at your door, you don’t answer the door. You call 911, then have then identify the name and badge number of the cop at your door and you don’t answer the door until 911 acknowledges its a real cop at the door.

    IDK about you but after you don’t answer the door, I wouldn’t be calling 911, I’d be playing possum with a fucking loaded gun waiting to go off if the front door opens or waiting for them to leave. The guy didn’t say he had a warrant, and if the police have a warrant just one cop isn’t going to be there, it’ll be a Pride of LEOs.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    This is big news. Google it.

    More info on him: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/minnesota-shootings-gunman-suspect.html

    Mr. Boelter and his wife run a private security company in Minnesota, according to its website. The company, Praetorian Guard Security Services…

    …the gunman had a list that included her name and the names of other lawmakers, all of whom were Democrats. The list included about 70 potential targets, a federal law enforcement official said, including doctors, community and business leaders, and locations for Planned Parenthood and other health care centers. Some of the targets were in neighboring states.

    Mr. Boelter, the site said, had traveled previously to violent areas “in the Gaza Strip and West Bank,” the site said, and had “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn’t the answer.”

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    Democratic leaders should have bodyguard details that they have personally chosen outside of the Federal framework. The violence will keep escalating, both stochaostic and direct.

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    7 hours ago

    Do we need to mention that they were both democratic politicians? Many of us would love to see the list of the others he was going to kill. I’m sort of thinking they were all Democrats.

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      it was, there was a list being mentioned on a subreddit, it includes tim walz, and others, plus abortion workers.

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        …the gunman had a list that included her name and the names of other lawmakers, all of whom were Democrats. The list included about 70 potential targets, a federal law enforcement official said, including doctors, community and business leaders, and locations for Planned Parenthood and other health care centers. Some of the targets were in neighboring states.

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        4 hours ago

        Apparently, they’re still screaming about how liberals are using violence. Nucking futz.

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          4 hours ago

          Yeah, the tone I am seeing in conservative spaces about this has shifting to the gunman being a CIA operative to smeer conservatives.

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    8 hours ago

    Convenient for the Trump administration that the (non-Fox) news is going to talk about this all day instead of the millions of people protesting him all across the country.

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      6 hours ago

      With the news cycles being 24/7 these days, there’s no reason they can’t talk about both. Blame them for being shit.

      • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        5 hours ago

        its on purpose, because the owners of all the MSMs are conservatives, just look who owns it

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      5 hours ago

      and his failure of a birthday parade too. plus trying to make the public forget about the BBB and tariffs sitll.

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    The details of this story are horrifying. The assassin went to the houses of two different lawmakers in the middle of the night (2am). Dressed as a cop.

    In the dark, the people in each house had no reasonable way to know that the person ringing their doorbell at 2am was not a cop. Presumably he shot whoever came to the door then entered the house and shot the other spouse.

    There’s no way the people who were shot could have reasonably prevented being killed

    So, just like the 9/11 hijacking changes everything about how people respond to a hijacking event, this changes everything about answering your door. You see someone dressed as a cop at your door, you don’t answer the door. You call 911, then have then identify the name and badge number of the cop at your door and you don’t answer the door until 911 acknowledges its a real cop at the door.

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    5 hours ago

    I’m going to call the soon to be obvious ‘gunman shot by police/himself or hung himself with his hands tied behind his back’. Nothing more to see here.

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      Gunman identified when he showed his drivers license to a McDonald’s cashier, a completely normal and everyday occurrence that happens all the time to poor people and no we aren’t making this up, why do you ask?

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    11 hours ago

    Time for real Americans to start dealing with the traitors in and out of our government.

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    13 hours ago

    How convenient. House is a 67-67 D and R. State Senate 34 D 33 R. Not political at all this assassination…

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      someone mentioned that in subreddit, yea they want to break that tie, but it would be whoever is control that appoints a special interim though.

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      8 hours ago

      Are there actually no safeguards against this? It seems like a pretty big fucking flaw in a democratic system if you can kill the opposing elected officials in order to gain control of the state. Like their votes should temporarily go to someone else in the party or something, not just be wiped out completely.

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      11 hours ago

      Even the article explicitly says this is politically motivated, this isn’t being presented as random

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        it was kinda obvious since it was targeting democrats only, and abortion providers.

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      9 hours ago

      When a legislator dies, their votes should automatically count as a “no” vote to prevent shenanigans.

      Wtf, this is a dystopian movie.

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    15 hours ago

    Sure sounds like MAGA is trying to start a hot civil war.

    Going to be interesting when these people find out liberals are well armed and trained.

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      TBH, I seriously considered going strapped to the protest today. But I think I’d rather be a martyr than be the guy who shot someone at the protest even if it was to defend myself and my fellow protestors. At least that’s my thinking now while violence is unlikely in my town. If violence gets more prevalent and more expected, I might change my mind.

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        That was my exact thinking this morning as well. My state allows concealed carry without a permit, so I could legally go with my carry… but I thought better of it. I didn’t expect any violence where I’m at, and it just seemed like it wasn’t worth the risk, being the cause of more harm than good. It kinda went against the spirit of this protest imo, so I left it at home

        Fuck it, I’m not that scared of dying that I gotta go strapped everywhere to feel safe. There’s a time and place for carrying, and the protest wasn’t one of them for me

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        I respect the thought you put into it, and it sounds like the right choice, for the time being at least. Hopefully it stays that way…

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      They’re preparing for dooms day… They’re fulfilling their own prophecy. I’m in a red area and I just saw an ad about getting a permit to concealed carry. Guns aren’t allowed here.

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      15 hours ago

      It’s been funny when they’ve come up to me calling me the f word because I’m clearly queer and then I flash my piece at them and they get white in the face and back the fuck off me real quick

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          14 hours ago

          lol nice. In all seriousness though, magats are always disgusting human beings who are very ugly inside and outside so they’d never get my dick

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            12 hours ago

            Same. I’ve actually turned down closeted Republican men who didn’t hesitate to tell me that they essentially wanted me to be their stay at home girlfriend… As a grown ass man. Fuck all that.

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              Yeah they’re fucking pathetic humans who just can’t embrace who they are and seem to think we’re even remotely fucking attracted to them

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            11 hours ago

            I support your right to put them 6feet under if they take it beyond verbal. But be careful, they can lie and get you targeted by the police. But I’m sure you’re ready to deal with that.

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              Yeah for sure, I’m well versed with the laws so I can cover my ass in anything and always show way more restraint than I probably need to but yeah I prefer to keep it more on the dl that I’m carrying just to keep the pigs off me

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          Yes I’ve been informed of the joke like five times now, I’m glad you can keep finding the humor in homophobes harassing me to the point that I have to show them the gun I have in my waistband since I have to be so fucking specific

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          It’s brandishing if I’m instigating, which is not the case, but not so much when I’m being approached in a threatening manner being called slurs and I’m at a point of self defense

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              Appreciate it, yeah I practice as much restraint as I can and never do anything outside a defensive standpoint. I already wasn’t a fan of having society come to this point where I felt I need one but unfortunately here we are but I think that has made me make sure to be responsible about it since my intentions are defensive

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          People are getting kidnapped off the street. Use the strap on whoever tries to “arrest” you

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      It’s always the magas inciting violence. Rushing to violence is a side effect of ignorance.

      If you’re looking for a civil war, you’d be a fool to think the Magas aren’t better prepared for base violence.

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        I personally man handled service members as a security guard in a military port town. I know where I stand. They can be as violent as possible. I can get even more crazier. And at that point. I break out the instant kill moves a dead SEAL friend taught me as my last resorts.

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    I’d bet anything the police and media response to this is and will be orders of magnitude less than when that healthcare guy got clapped.

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      Pretty sure they were throwing “assassinated” in the headlines very early on there where this is just a “shooting” even though Tim Walz has already declared it a politically motivated assassination.

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      My very first thought was about Luigi and thinking if this guy is found alive he likely won’t have any serious response. It seems they have a suspect but the dude was clearly wearing a mask so idk how they determined that

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    You know what’s fucked up is that I don’t even have to look. I can tell you right now that the victims in this crime are part of the Democratic party. You know how I know? Because the FBI director and the president are talking about prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law and how violence in America will never be acceptable.

    But if it was the other way around and a Democrat went nuts and killed a Republican senator Donald Trump would be on truth social calling for that person to be hung or stretched or quartered or whatever it is they did to people in the middle ages.

    

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      But if it was the other way around … Donald Trump would be on truth social calling for that person to be hung…

      Not just that, but he would be demonizing the whole Democrat party, saying how their dangerous rhetoric caused this and the party needs to be outlawed and its leaders arrested.

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          My assumption is that if Luigi is getting charged at the federal level for killing one random, rich white guy, this person who has killed two politicians and has a hit list for others, would be charged at the federal level for terrorism. At least I’d expect that in a normal, functional society, which we’re not.

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    This isn’t just assassination, it’s terrorism designed to scare opponents of Trump from speaking out. The media won’t say that, of course, because it’s likely the shooter is white.

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      The shootings are the latest in a string of seemingly lone-wolf politically motivated violence.

      Good grief, could they whitewash this any harder?

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      Exactly that. Also, don’t forget that every chance they get they say “a man posing as a police officer” and they then describe that he was dressed exactly like a cop including a badge and cop car

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      It’s also done on no kings day so we all know what the headline will be. Doesn’t seem like a coincidence on reflection.

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      It was planned to be a distraction so news coverage wouldn’t focus on all the protests today. Can’t show bigger crowds in rural America than whatever few bootlickers showed up to watch Trump’s birthday parade.

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        yea they need good sound bytes for fox, oan and newsmax, cant have them protesting news all the time. it makes trump look really bad.