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    Honestly I’m not condoning this, but I’m surprised it took so long to happen. The football industry damages so many brains, many of which are severely damaged without even making it to the NFL purely in the hopes of making it big.

    Tackle football is also grossly unethical to be facilitated by educational institutions with modern knowledge of its effects.

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    23 hours ago

    Crazy how he somehow managed to end up shooting the CEO of one of the largest private investment firms in the world. Definitely not Luigi 2.0.

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    “Study my brain. I’m sorry,” Tisch quoted Tamura as having written in the note. The commissioner noted that Tamura had fatally shot himself in the chest.

    Didn’t shoot himself in the head to preserve the brain. Reminds me of the “Texas Tower Shooter” Charles Whitman.

    In his note, Whitman went on to request an autopsy be performed on his remains after he was dead to determine if there had been a biological cause for his actions and for his continuing and increasingly intense headaches.

    During the autopsy, Dr. Chenar reported that he discovered a pecan-sized brain tumor, above the red nucleus, in the white matter below the gray center thalamus, which he identified as an astrocytoma with slight necrosis.

    I’ve heard a neuroscientist talk about this and conclude that this tumor could very well have been the cause for his behavior.

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    Two events makes a trend. MSM doesn’t want any momentum behind the Luigi movement so they’ll find any excuse. Notice how flooded MSM has been with the NFL narrative. They’re trying to drown out any conversation that this could be about Blackstone.

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      Ya, I could have accepted the NFL story, but the comment sections on reddit seems so inorganic. Something feels really fishy. They kind of tried to stall releasing her name and hid it too, or that is the impression I got.

      The guy also played in highschool, it’s not like he was actually in the NFL.

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        but the comment sections on reddit seems so inorganic

        That’s not proof of anything, it’s just bots talking to bots there, even on a good day.

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    While he never played professionally, so directly blaming them is a little tortured, we should absolutely be open to the idea that this was his genuine surface-level motive, and also that there might be something to it. Almost alone among sports, American football is a very popular activity that relies on constant subconcussive hits to the head in practice and games, starting as early as 8 years old. Repeated subconcussive brain injuries over an extended period of time is exactly what causes CTE. The NFL has been very adept at turning the conversation away from CTE by offering up concussion protocols and treatments, as this “feels” the same to the public and is not without value, but can be addressed without fundamentally changing how the game must be played and practiced, and how the pipeline of young players – which the NFL gets for free because High School and especially high-level college football are financially self-sustaining – would develop.

    The sufferers can’t be properly diagnosed without autopsy, so a former football player might be tempted to blame any issues he has on it, but symptoms include depression, paranoia, early cognitive decline, and drastic personality changes. Several prominent players, including a couple of legends in the NFL world, have committed suicide by writing a note asking for an autopsy and then shooting themselves in the chest. The infamous Chris Benoit case may have involved CTE as well.

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      23 hours ago

      The target was the Blackstone CEO and the NFL is the headline they’re using to cover up this fact; you’ve been mislead by your news sources and need to find other sources

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        You’ve been watching too many movies.

        The NFL reports came out right after the shooting.

        He shot himself in the chest because he wanted his brain studied.

        No way could anyone put together a conspiracy like this that quickly.

        Moreover, being targeted by a conspiracy would be a Godsend for private military contractors. Trump and the GOP would fall all over themselves allowing them special rights and privileges, and they’d be investigating everyone who’d ever complained about income inequality

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    It is not a “disease”. It is a damage. Like a broken leg, which nobody would call a “disease”.