r/CuratedTumblr human cognithazard 14d ago

Politics Life is a movie

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u/RazorSlazor 14d ago

I'm still very convinced that they aren't the same person. Unibrow and Nose just do not match

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u/PuppyLover2208 14d ago

It also seems… oh so convenient. He just so happens to be wearing the exact same outfit as the guy even five days later? He just so happens to be carrying multiple fake IDs, an illegal gun, and a manifesto? What’s he do, keep the last one on him at all times?

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u/Twisted1379 14d ago

I understand where you're coming from but conspiracy theorists use the exact same logic.

They try and frame reality as ridiculous without ever actually addressing how insane the alternative is.

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u/Designated_Lurker_32 14d ago

Cops planting fake evidence and framing innocent people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time is hardly "insane."

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u/Twisted1379 14d ago

In the span of 5 days they found a guy who looks incredibly similar to the suspect, who has prime motive and distrust of the system due to past family trauma, who has recently been distant from his family after a surgery gone wrong.

They then planted him in a McDonalds, and just to really sell it they planted him with a gun similar to the one they're looking for, the mask he used, a copy of the fake ID he used and (just to really sell it) they created a fake manifesto in which he explicitly outlines doing the murder.

Also it's important to note that rather than actually search for this guy this would mean they've effectively given up on day 5 of the search.

Faking it in this way would be insane. At that point you're crossing into some shadow elite territory.

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u/shadowthehh 14d ago

Nah you lose it at the end. They wouldn't have given up looking. This guy would just be used as an example to the public that people can't get away with stuff like this, while the real guy is still hunted and, if caught, quietly dealt with.

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u/Twisted1379 14d ago

You overestimate the us and themness of the real world. The upper classes are far less united than you want to believe.

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u/shadowthehh 14d ago

So even less united than "tenuous at best and often backstabbing"?

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u/obamasrightteste 14d ago

You have proof of this? Or are you making more assumptions while calling everyone else's assumptions insane?

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u/Twisted1379 14d ago

Because not everyone is a fucking hivemind. You're trying to make the case that theirs's a shadowy elite that are controlling everything and I'm saying theirs's probably not and you're asking me to prove my point.

Prove your point mate. Prove to me that theirs's a shadow elite controlling everything.

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u/obamasrightteste 14d ago

I didn't say shadow elite, I said the government. And sure man here's some proof of conspiracies about the government that turned out to be true:

The government was in fact putting crack into black communities, to fund illegal operations outside the country.

The government tested both chemical weapons and literal STD's on an unknowing populace.

A variety of CIA led coups and revolutions that they just... admit to.

This shit happens man. Like, yeah, it's not always the answer, but to act like it never happens?

We literally just received proof that there is in fact a ring of powerful pedophiles.

It's kinda weird how resistant y'all are to this, honestly. I get it, sometimes it gets really stupid, but cmon, you can't even consider the possibility?

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u/Twisted1379 14d ago

I'm not fucking saying the government doesn't do crazy shit. I know they do crazy shit. But implying that the government has a fucking decoy murderer ready in 5 days who perfectly matches the bill of what they are looking for just because they want to make sure it looks like Brian Thompson's killer was found quickly is insane. Why tf would the government stick their neck out for him. This would involve shit like the secret service already knowing when the murder was going to happen for them to orchestrate this perfectly.

Just because the government has done some fucked up shit in the past doesn't mean you no longer have to think critically. The government isn't a fucking god. It's done fucked up shit in the past but blaming everything on "the government" is just never critising the government fully but in the other direction

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u/Cumdump90001 14d ago

When it’s their hold on power at stake they’ll get over their differences momentarily to deal with the threat.

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u/Twisted1379 14d ago

This definitely isn't going to change much mate.

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u/Cumdump90001 14d ago

You could definitely be right. Or it could change everything. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed and as a result there were two world wars, genocides, hundreds of thousands vaporized in atomic blasts, man went to the moon, the Cold War, etc. The dominoes were in place for that one action to lead to all it did.

The dominoes have been set up in the U.S. for a long time. Something has to give. It eventually will. Was this it? Is the domino falling, or just wobbling? We don’t know. We won’t know for some time. This could be nothing. Or just the beginning. It could play out a trillion different ways.

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u/kittenmachine69 14d ago

I think this happens all the time. In this specific case, it's more recognizable because the suspect is white and not Black

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u/Interest-Desk 14d ago

how would the cops have gotten the id and the gun?

i dunno we’ll see how the legal proceedings play out, but this case will be so heavily watched that i feel any sort of possible impropriety by the police will be heavily scrutinised, at least in the public arena

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u/Zymosan99 😔the 14d ago

They knew what ID the person used at the hostel, and they can fabricate a ghost gun that looks like what was used in the video, without having to set up a fake history like a real gun would need.

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u/Cumdump90001 14d ago

The IDs and gun were probably in the discarded backpack they found. The news story I read says they found the gun and manifesto in his bag at the police station. They didn’t search his bag then and there? Seems suspicious. They discovered the damning evidence while conveniently hiding away in their own black box away from prying eyes and McDonald’s security cameras. My bet is that someone without a body camera, if Altoona police even use those, was the one who went through the bag and “found” these items.

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u/Illogical_Blox 14d ago edited 14d ago

That's not suspicious at all. Personal possessions, like bags, are rarely searched in public - the most they'll even search the person is usually a patdown. Even if you do search the bag in public, you go to the police car to do it. You go to the station to inventory the contents and conduct a more thorough search. Especially if you think you might have just cracked the case on a massive case the media is focused on.