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Mike Nelson here.
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current cbc story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/moncton-shooting-finding-arresting-suspect-top-priority-1.2665707

about the alleged shooter: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/justin-bourque-what-we-know-about-moncton-shooting-suspect-1.2665900

"He's always seemed to have a problem with authority," Caitlin Isaac, who worked with Bourque at Wal-Mart several years ago, told Business Insider, adding that he had issues "with parents, bosses, police."

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He posted a number of poems and lyrics, such as "Sharpened claws poisoned tip manicure./ Painted skin hiding the beast within./ Daggered heels designed to cut your face./ No remorse crushing the human race."

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RIP canadian police officers.
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Toronto
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Red Salute!
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i knew that after the xanax and the monkey thing and his attitude in court that it would only be a matter of time until something like this happened; what a tragedy for Justin, and for Canada
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Asked whether she could have predicted that Bourque might ever carry out a killing spree, his former Wal-Mart colleague Isaac said she was "surprised, and also not."

She recounted a camping trip a while back with Bourque and some of their Wal-Mart colleagues at the time, when he brought a gun.

"He held onto the whole night while drinking. That kind of freaked us out, so we didn't invite him the next time."



finally someone with the courage to admit that they kinda did see it coming, Caitlin Isaac you win an IWC Integrity award

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Mike Nelson here.
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whenever i read the acquaintance reaction things they are either like "he lived two streets over. i saw him bicycle across a guy's lawn once to cut a corner. i'm shocked he did this because i remember him half-smiling" but more and more you also get like "yeah i worked with him. i remember him saying he had a gun and a specific plan to attack certain targets associated with his deeply-held convictions and grievances. i thought it was a bit weird but didn't think much more of it."

but when people get confused why they didn't act on the second case it's probably because most people are so crazy that they hear specific plots to destroy other peoples lives every few days. if the police investigated everyone with murderous grievances they wouldn't have time to direct traffic or do paperwork about jaywalking.
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getfiscal posted:

whenever i read the acquaintance reaction things they are either like "he lived two streets over. i saw him bicycle across a guy's lawn once to cut a corner. i'm shocked he did this because i remember him half-smiling" but more and more you also get like "yeah i worked with him. i remember him saying he had a gun and a specific plan to attack certain targets associated with his deeply-held convictions and grievances. i thought it was a bit weird but didn't think much more of it."

but when people get confused why they didn't act on the second case it's probably because most people are so crazy that they hear specific plots to destroy other peoples lives every few days. if the police investigated everyone with murderous grievances they wouldn't have time to direct traffic or do paperwork about jaywalking.



i chalk that up to a change in Manners about what you say after someone's death if you didn't really mind them that much when they were alive, no matter how they died. I have a hard time believing that spree killers change that much, it seems more likely that other people changed how they talk about them.

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mt.real
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in general it might have something to do with the fact that most people don't see much of a difference between private and public anymore, at one point you wouldn't ever say enough of those things in public, just like you wouldn't make off-colour jokes in "polite company", but now everyone tweets about whatever hentai they just masturbated to and it's w/e

personally i think it's that capitalist alienation causes us to be unable to process boundaries anymore but hey maybe it's great and good and everyone should be completely open about everything all the time and i'm just an old man with hangups
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hi
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UNUSUALY COOL
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i mean are theatrical manifesto suicide notes for spree killings really a new thing? no, these kinds of killers often have histrionic tendencies. it seems like a lot of them probably always bragged about what they did to as many people as would listen but people didn't think that was something to tell a reporter because of existing taboos or fear of being held culpable. however they can and do tell a lot of people now, as the Rhizzone found out recently, when noted poster gwap/gwarp could have saved all of those people if we had only listened to gwim.
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Kurdt
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those boys get that syrup in em & they get all antsy in their pantsy
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YUNG JIRO AKA SHOWA STUNNA AKA
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Syrup Crimez: Screwston's Finest
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chickeon
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there was a guy on CBC today talking about tghis with the surname Bourgeois lol
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Poronto
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pronounced "burgers"
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chickeon posted:

there was a guy on CBC today talking about tghis with the surname Bourgeois lol



i did a double take at this too on the radio

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mt.real
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is cbc radio worthwhile, isn't it just .. i mean.. liberal bougie as fuck

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it's 100% trash but it's unintrusive
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chickeon
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I was watching the immeasurably worse CBC television channel while drinking coffee before headin otu the door, but in general I expose myself to the bourgeois media in order to learn and understand the ideological narratives and machinations of the class enemy. also sometimes it's genuinely funny how blatant and shameless it can get, although obv a little depressing since it's blindly accepted by the majority of persons
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mt.real
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i just gave up at some point because i feel like both, A, it is depressing because it's just the same incredibly myopic perspective on everything, and B, if i listen to that shit every day no matter how much i'm "just listening/watching to find out what the general line is on everything" it's still affecting me and surrounding me with that line

i hear about news if it's big enough so it doesn't really matter, but otoh it is isolating not to pay it any attention. it's like one of the few ways to semi-functionally feel like a member of a community while you're in a completely urban modern environment i think. what is going on? what does the average person think is going on? idfk

on the bright side, my gf feels the same way, so instead of paying attention to all that bullshit we make sandwiches and go picnic instead
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Online
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i was laying aroiund sick the other day and i put on the tv because i couldnt be bothered to do anything else, and i only got like 5 channels so the only thing on was like meet the press or something, and they started talking about hillarys new book and how she was using it to deal with benghazi now so when the election ocmes she'll say didn't we already have that conversation and i was like wow i cant believe this is real. i think that's my only brush with mainstream politics talk show in like the last 5 years
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daddyholes posted:

i mean are theatrical manifesto suicide notes for spree killings really a new thing? no, these kinds of killers often have histrionic tendencies. it seems like a lot of them probably always bragged about what they did to as many people as would listen but people didn't think that was something to tell a reporter because of existing taboos or fear of being held culpable. however they can and do tell a lot of people now, as the Rhizzone found out recently, when noted poster gwap/gwarp could have saved all of those people if we had only listened to gwim.



the form is probably the new thing, did anyone write whatever bullshit and call it a manifesto pre-unabomber?

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chickeon
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Lykourgos this is a good palce to post somethin about like" ah yes well these boys Carl and Fred... " to do your good massive ownage on us commies
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UNUSUALY COOL
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paging lykourgos to The Faily Planet