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Luigi's Manifesto (www.kenklippenstein.com)
submitted 2 days ago by lukes26@lemm.ee to c/usa@lemmy.ml

“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

Post got removed in .world for not being a "news source" even though Klippenstein is definitely a very established independent journalist, so trying again here I guess.

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[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] RealistAF@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 day ago

This guy is a reminder that health is the most important thing in life. He lost his health which led him to lose it all.

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

He lost it all because of capitalism.

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 81 points 2 days ago

Post got removed in .world for not being a "news source" even though Klippenstein is definitely a very established independent journalist,

Unsurprising from .world

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago

Man, I signed up at world because it sounded like the most official one, but there's so much fuckery constantly on this instance... I even donated at one point then stopped when they were trying to shut down instances talking about piracy. Wtf?

[-] turtle@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

You can easily sign up at another instance and export / import your subscriptions and settings. The only thing you can't transfer is your old posts, afaik.

[-] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

lemmy.ml is technically the most official instance, because it's run by the developers themselves.

[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I'm on .ee am I missing things?

[-] bilb@lem.monster 3 points 1 day ago

Probably not.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

I'm glad their captcha was broken when I tried to sign up.

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[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 days ago

.world doesn't allow journalism

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 days ago

Their allowed articles are "Israel expands defensive buffer zone in Syria".

Top lol.

[-] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 1 day ago

weird way to spell "invasion and occuption"...

[-] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 99 points 2 days ago

Reddit suppressing and removing all posts and even his account while Lemmy communities keep them all up. Feels good man

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I was able to find this via the Wayback Machine. Not much, but something.

[-] DiagnosedADHD@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Basically just seems like a normal, intelligent, albeit edgy (with reason) young adult.

I'm curious to see how he's painted by the media now that most of his accounts have been deleted it won't be possible to understand who he was without the media telling us.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The media is the mouthpiece of the owner class. so they'll say he's evil and killed a wonderful, caring person and none of us dregs at the bottom should get any ideas that it's okay or justified that he did it.

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[-] Jamablaya@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Watching whoever that dumb fuck who isn't Jon Stewart latch on ONE LINE of this and mock him for being "not qualified" was the most pathetic showing of former satirical programming just being state propaganda i've seen in at least 4 days.

[-] roofTophopper@lemmy.world 76 points 2 days ago

This whole thing smells like horse shit. You hear so make stories about murderers ditching anything they had on them at the time of the crime. Rivers and lakes get dragged, forests are swept, every dumpster is turned upside down.

Yet, you're going to tell me homie was 300 miles away carrying everything he had still on him from the crime AND a literal confession note? Are they sure he wasn't waving air traffic controller sticks around on the freeway yelling, "IT WAS ME IT WAS ME"?

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

At the very least it seems incongruous with leaving the state afterwards. If he was that fatalistic about being caught why didn't he just use a normal gun and drop it afterwards while he waited for the cops? He literally made a suppressed weapon and had a complex exit plan. That doesn't match up.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Unless he was planning on targeting more. Then keeping the firearm might make some sense, as well as a note in case he's caught that would explain his actions whether he'd killed 1 or 20 health insurance leeches.

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[-] phx@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Could have had another target on the list but also plans to do a full reveal if caught

[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

This is by far the best explanation why he still had his "materials" on him like the gun, fake ID, tons of cash, etc. He wasn't done yet.

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[-] kworpy@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

damn is mario even a family friendly franchise anymore?

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 128 points 2 days ago

This sounds like a written confession or statement to the police, after he's already in police custody. Not a "manifesto", which is something justifying your actions to the public and done before carrying out whatever it is.

I'm not buying any of this. Someone who went to so much trouble planning, executing, and getting away without a trace, isn't going to go out in public with a bunch of incriminating items on their person. The NYPD probably just picked this tip out of the thousands they got, and are making things fit after the fact.

[-] daltotron@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 days ago

I really find it to be quite absurd that people are still thinking this isn't the guy. This is probably the guy. My basis for that is basically just that the shooter had a 200 dollar peak design redditor backpack and a uniqlo packable jacket when he shot that guy, and those are both heavily techbro-coded fashion items. That's on top of all the internet history of this specific guy pretty much indicating that he's the guy. Back problems, leading to a several month long disappearance, after he turns 26, and is no longer on his parent's healthcare plan.

We can also look at it through the lens of just the assassination attempt itself. The news is saying they found either a 3d printed gun, or more commonly, a ghost gun (which I have not been able to find a consistent account of). In either case, that involves buying a mostly unregulated firearm upper, and then either finishing an "80%" pre-assembled lower with a drill press, or probably even a regular cordless drill, or just wholesale printing the entire lower of the gun yourself. Both of those, are also techbro-coded methods of obtaining a firearm. Compared to just buying a somewhat common firearm in a state where it's pretty easy to get a gun a couple months before, and then shaving the serial numbers off the gun, or just getting a gun off the black market, or stealing one from someone, which all seem maybe easier than going the ghost gun route.

In the video itself, we see him struggle to cycle the gun manually, due what is probably a combination of using subsonic ammunition, and his suppressor, which I'm assuming did not have a nielsen device, or, a booster. Those are devices that are meant to help browning-style tilting barrel designs cycle much more reliably. They also tend to cycle less reliably with heavier baffled suppressors compared to much lighter, quieter, disposable, and easier to produce wipe-based suppressors.

His research and meticulously planned operation also consisted of shooting this guy in the back, in front of a camera, while this guy walked to his hotel. That's a plan that has a high percentage chance of success, it's the same way that you'd see many mob hits happen, but does it strike me as something which is particularly complicated or out of character for this guy, if he had a couple months to cook something up?

Based on the entire description of that chain of events, that would probably indicate that this is a somebody that's had some amount of preparation but wasn't some kind of professional or overwhelming genius. It could be the case that they dug around online for thirty minutes, happened to find a guy that had both disappeared for a couple months, had medical problems, was a little bit more conspiratorial, or rather, had incoherent politics, and would be the kind of guy who would dress in a peak design backpack and in a uniqlo jacket, and was ALSO a guy which was exiting new york at that time via bus. They would then have to plant evidence on him, which cops are known to do, but that's all, legitimately, entirely possible. Is it more likely than this being the guy, based on everything we've seen from the video?

I would say no, probably not, this is probably the guy.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

My basis for that is basically just that the shooter had a 200 dollar peak design redditor backpack and a uniqlo packable jacket when he shot that guy, and those are both heavily techbro-coded fashion items. That's on top of all the internet history of this specific guy pretty much indicating that he's the guy. Back problems, leading to a several month long disappearance, after he turns 26, and is no longer on his parent's healthcare plan.

The number of black-haired white guys who wear this clothing, are interested in tech, had health problems, and have been screwed over by insurance companies isn't a small number. There's probably thousands of them in any given US city.

You are doing the thing where the media is all pointing at a single person, and trying to convict them based on non-material-evidence factors: clothing, blurry pictures, ideology, "motivation", etc. None of those things link this person to the crime scene. If they showed you all the other tips and candidates they've gotten in the past week that fit the bill, I doubt you'd be so sure.

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[-] b000rg@midwest.social 148 points 2 days ago

Damn Gen Z kids can't even write a full page manifesto anymore smdh

/s

[-] lgmjon64@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago

ChatGPT, write me a manifesto

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 59 points 2 days ago

📎 Looks like you're writing a manifesto, would you like some suggestions?

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[-] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 113 points 2 days ago

[indecipherable] is the new [redacted]

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just remember which instance let you read this, and which one wouldn't let you.

.ml doesnt need to host a bi monthly feud posts like .world does. Their moderator actions are all the advertisements we need. Make an account and export your settings today! Lemmy.ml

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

What instance can I go to, so that I can freely say pure capitalism sucks, pure communism sucks, China / Russia governments suck. USA / Israel governments suck, every Islamic government sucks.

Bottom line is that most governments / authorities are shit, but there are levels to everything. And some are clearly worse than others.

I side with the people 99% of the time and I want an instance that sides / protects people not governments or ideologies.

Where can I find this?!

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[-] lukes26@lemm.ee 43 points 2 days ago

I mean .world 100% sucks lol, and people should definitely move off it, but I'd also like people to move off .ml or any other general purpose instance since centralization on any one instance can cause issues imo. I'm considering switching off of .ee for the same reason. I think it makes more sense to have specific instances for specific things, so that the admins of one instance can have more domain specific knowledge ideally.

.world specifically does seem like they can't go more than a few weeks without some kind of drama though lol.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 days ago

The .ml/tankie witch hunts on .world are what got me to jump. It's just exhausting.

[-] boywar3@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

I don't wanna get banned for saying China does bad things too lol

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[-] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 81 points 2 days ago

.world should not be removing articles from Ken Klippenstein. I detest the man for his methods and indiscretion (not necessarily in this instance), but he does post the facts as he receives them.

[-] Sinthesis@lemmy.today 37 points 2 days ago

Thx for reminding me to delete my .world account.

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[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty

This is either disinformation or whatever asshole wrote this doesn't know US history.

You can still see the scars in the JP Morgan building in wall street from the horse drawn carriage bomb that was set against those greedy corporate assholes after the arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1920

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing

We have a long history of defending against their violence

[-] lukes26@lemm.ee 31 points 2 days ago

I can definitely see why someone not as well versed in anarchist history could believe that, or if they specifically meant against the insurance industry. Either way though, I think it's important for people to know about that history of violence that led to meaningful social reforms. So many Americans think that workers rights, civil rights, and everything short of the ~~abolishment~~ rebranding of slavery was won through voting or peaceful protests.

Too many people believe that somehow a state has some divine morality granted to it, and justice can only happen within the confines of said state. No moral act can be carried out without the government sanctioning it, and any miscarriage of justice by the state is an abnormality.

There may be a monopoly on violence held by states against their people, but this doesn't give them some inherent right to be the ultimate arbiters of justice. Something being legal does not make it moral, and just because an act is illegal doesn't make it immoral.

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[-] Jamablaya@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That is literally a suicide note found on someone before he mustered the nerve.

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i think this one (manifesto) is fake for obvious reasons. this one is real https://archive.is/7jUsF
it's way more coherent

[-] Jamablaya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That is not anything a heir to a 600 million dollar fortune would write. You have to ask yourself "Wtf", which story is real?

[-] hollerpixie@lemm.ee 34 points 2 days ago

Interesting read. However this turns out, not a huge fan of .world removing it, similar to the centralized sites you'd expect to suppress stuff. Stopped following their news thread for this reason as I don't need my information moderated- can do that myself.

[-] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 42 points 2 days ago

Is that 3 or 250 page copy?

Asking for a friend.

I have a weird feeling they are making this shit up as they go.

The info drip drives us where they want us talking at every turn.

Nobody is talking about the dead parasite or the corruption. I think they are looking for this to blow over.

Job is done, back to work peasants you got premiums to pay. Don't ya?

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