• bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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    It’s such a tragedy when a young man who happens to be involved with a billionaire who is under investigation commits suicide by shooting himself twice in the back of the head.

    • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip
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      I remember the Gary Webb murder and the coroner that ruled it a suicide was pressed about it for a long time after that that he finally did an interview and said there was

      A distinct possibility

      that someone could shoot themselves twice in the back of the head for a suicide.

      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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        People on reddit outshout anyone about how this is a suicide, and shooting yourself twice in the back of the head is totally a possible thing.

        Influence operations obviously, protected by reddit, while real users are punished by reddit for standing up for truth.

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          I will say, at least for Gary Webb, it was a suicide.

          Gary Webb shot himself in the head twice, not the back of the head, I don’t know why that lie keeps being added.

          The first shot ripped through from his right ear, through his face and out the left cheek, as you will note, the face is part of the head.

          He remained conscious long enough to reposition the gun to try again.

          The worst part of the stupid conspiracy theory is that it ignores what was actually done to Gary Webb, and who exactly did it. As a hint, it wasn’t the CIA.

          Gary Webb was a small town reporter who uncovered a story of international significance. He was working without the backing of a major publication, and those major publications destroyed him for it. The CIA never had to lift a fucking finger. Every newspaper in the country spent weeks tearing into the flaws in the story, the little places where Mr Webb didn’t know the “rules” of big league investigative journalism. None of them bothered to actually investigate the story itself.

          Also left out of the conspiracy is that Dark Alliance was published in 1996, and Gary Webb killed himself in 2004.

          He had been blacklisted by every major newspaper, had just been fired from the job he had held with the State of California earlier in the year due to a new asshole being elected and had just been forced to sell his house because he couldn’t afford the mortgage. His ex-wife had been worried about him as well in the weeks leading up to his death.

          Also yes yes, fuck Reddit, but also live in fucking reality. I know it’s worse than the conspiracy theories, but, yeah I can’t sell it any better than that.

          No one is in charge, there are a bunch of people who think they are, but they are just as dumb as you or me. Statistically dumber and more vicious with their own fantasies of how the world works. Which is why they keep getting caught.

          The problem is, no one does anything and no one ever faces consequences.

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      To be fair, there probably is a lot of shame and self-loathing that comes after sleeping with Peter Thiel.

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        not exactly, he was getting very anxious/depressed, anxiety over thiels public support of anti-lgbtq+ agenda with the republicans. thiel likely fears thomas would go public with thier relationship and thiels hate agenda. hence the “sudden defenestration”

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      And then it suddenly dawned on me: It was suicide with an electric bread knife, because no one would stab themselves that many times without intention.