I'm more surprised that it didn't happen earlier. It also basically already blew over in the media so it didn't move the needle very much.
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All of this "evidence" boils down to "this is very inconvenient for my side, and very convenient for the other side, therefore it's obviously a false flag." It's the same logic that led Alex Jones to say Sandy Hook was faked by crisis actors: 1. the shooting would justify gun control, 2. the US government wanted gun control, so 3. the government faked Sandy Hook to justify gun control. in this case it's 1. the shooting would justify claims that pro-Palestinian activists are violent, 2. the Israeli government wants to portray activists as violent, so 3. the IDF shot their own diplomat.
Rational skeptics start with the facts and follow them to a belief. Conspiracy theorists start with their belief and find facts to support it. Do better.
You're so right actually. All of the facts are absolutely being reported with pinpoint accuracy and zero bias or obfuscation by official sources and media that absolutely haven't demonstrated a consistent slant towards a certain side for the entire duration of this latest round of genocide in particular and the entire struggle in general.
Come to think of it, I'm sure the timing of this event, coming at a time when that particular side is actually starting to lose substantial support in the court of public opinion as well as in actual criminal courts, is completely circumstantial and coincidental -- as is the fact that the perpetrator is part of a "leftist" organization that is notoriously riddled with feds to keep an eye on the movement, or the fact that he was treated with kid gloves and allowed to shout FREE PALESTINE loud and clear for the cameras to capture, by a police force that normally shoots kids with toy guns -- the same police force that was pointing guns at Aaron Bushnell as he burned to death.
Completely above board and natural, I'm certain.
Eh, after reading his manifesto I am inclined to think this is all real. It's badly written in places, profound in others. He muses on the nature and necessity of political violence, name drops Aaron Bushnell ... His neighbors knew him. He wants the attention and wants to generate discussion
I do question his choice of location... Not great optics
And you think the feds don't have enough experience to draw from to plant a convincing-looking manifesto?
If dude denies the manifesto and defends himself in court as the Feds having written it, I'll give you $5.
He's a fed himself, is the point I'm making. He's not some innocent patsy being framed, he's in on the entire thing for the optics of it
I think it's much simpler to just assume that there are people tired of watching children starve while the perpetrators go unpunished
Also, the news are very careful today avoid talking about his purpose and instead are talking about his possible charges