That point is obvious from reading the manifesto. And that point has been elaborated many many times for decades from news articles to academic publications to film media, so why repeat the details in the manifesto.
> My queries to The New York Times, CNN and ABC to explain their rationale for withholding the manifesto, while gladly quoting from it selectively, have not been answered.
I mean..often mass shooters' manifestos aren't circulated because that was their goal after all. It feels like it's standard practice to take care with such things?
Then they should not be quoting from it at all if they are not going to release it in its entirety as without context quote can have completely different meaning.
But that's not true. Dorner's manifesto, Breivik's manifesto, the Charleston shooter's manifesto are all broadly available, I believe through mainstream media. Heck, there's a purported review this guy posted on goodreads for the Unabomber's manifesto floating around.
They weren't released like immediately though. Or at least some weren't I know. Because it's frowned upon. It's not because the MSM has some conspiracy against this guy (which OP does insinuate.)
I wonder what the effect on quality-adjusted life years [0] is from the shooting. -30 for the shooter, but how many positive from improved health insurance policies? Probably thousands.
Perhaps someone will figure that out and publish a journal article called "Decreasing all-cause mortality through hyper-local plumboid injection".
> but how many positive from improved health insurance policies? Probably thousands
how did you come to this conclusion? what if it actually gets _worse_? What if the media attention blows over, the good or neutral actors end up eating the blame, some savvy corporations/politicians with skilled PR end up using the public anger to enrich themselves & make things worse for the public, and people still don't understand why the system isn't working?
I haven't seen any good information on what actually is the root cause and what are the solutions that will fix everything. I don't think this is a matter of greedy people blocking easy/obvious solutions.
it has brought to the attention of CEOs the fact that even though the individual shooter might be apprehended, the CEOs who push too far over the line might not make it home from their next shareholders meeting.
I think this is a unlikely outcome. The CEOs will hire more personal security and the company will pay for it. The job of a CEO is to maximize profit of the company, this is written in their contracts. So this is what they will do.
that just means they will be prisoners in their own lives. no more just walking down the street, exploring places by yourself, meeting friends at small coffee shops at short notice - now they need to spend on security, always wait for them to check out the place first, always looking over their shoulders for traitors. it's the sort of thing that's driven kings mad.
My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there.
I wonder if he's right about that. I'm a professional developer and I have little faith that I can lock down everything. Not against a determined adversary, much less one with whatever special semi-legal voodoo the FBI has.
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[ 1.6 ms ] story [ 84.9 ms ] threadI'm surprized that this specific point isn't made in his manifesto.
I mean..often mass shooters' manifestos aren't circulated because that was their goal after all. It feels like it's standard practice to take care with such things?
Perhaps someone will figure that out and publish a journal article called "Decreasing all-cause mortality through hyper-local plumboid injection".
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
how did you come to this conclusion? what if it actually gets _worse_? What if the media attention blows over, the good or neutral actors end up eating the blame, some savvy corporations/politicians with skilled PR end up using the public anger to enrich themselves & make things worse for the public, and people still don't understand why the system isn't working?
I haven't seen any good information on what actually is the root cause and what are the solutions that will fix everything. I don't think this is a matter of greedy people blocking easy/obvious solutions.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles#Sword_of_Damocles
From huffpost website
Slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Was Accused Of Insider Trading Amid DOJ Probe Was said to sold 15M shares
I mean "temporarily embarrassed billionaires".
I wonder if he's right about that. I'm a professional developer and I have little faith that I can lock down everything. Not against a determined adversary, much less one with whatever special semi-legal voodoo the FBI has.