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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldKeeping tabs on citizens
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    14 hours ago

    No.

    Altoona police responded to the 911 call placed by the McDonald’s manager, who said multiple customers told her a person in the back corner looked like the man wanted by New York authorities for assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

    They’re just really upset, and they’re, like, coming to me. And I was like, well, I can’t approach him, you know?,” the manager said.

    During the 911 call, the dispatcher tried to get a description. The manager told her that because of how the man was dressed, it was hard to get a good look.

    “Well, he has a beanie pulled down, so the only thing you can see is his eyebrows,” the manager told 911.

    https://www.wtaj.com/news/local-news/911-call-released-in-luigi-mangione-arrest/

    His bus stopped at a McDonald’s and multiple “random” customers kept trying to get an employee to call, getting upset with them when they wouldn’t but refusing to call themselves.

    Even tho you couldn’t see what he looked like.

    That smells exactly like they knew he was on the bus, and needed a civilian to call in a tip to justify the huge response that magically showed up in the middle of nowhere in minutes.

    The most likely explanation is all those super concerned citizens who didn’t want the reward they were trying to get minimum wage workers to take were cops/feds.


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    15 hours ago

    Eh.

    The purpose of the AI is the surveillance…

    It’s all one thing.

    The cameras record plates, the towers log phones. Everything records browsing data.

    All that goes to a data center to be saved indefinitely.

    AI constantly tries to organize it into profiles indexed via search tags.

    Then if they want to look at anyone, they have a complete file on everyone ready at an instant. If they don’t have someone to look at, they ask AI for a list of everyone that was in the right places at the right times. Then the AI looks at the browsing history of everyone and any redflags there or anywhere else.

    It’s 100% how they got Luigi, and if it comes out during the trial that the same file already exists for everyone in America, citizen or not…

    The whole house of cards crashes down, because even the racists will be able to figure out that means ICE could just deport all the criminals if they wanted to. And everyone left of the racists (including the people who don’t give a fuck) will be pissed for the right reasons.





  • I mean, just the timeline shows that whoever was putting this together (Politico and NYT) had the main concern of getting Platner to drop out

    They didn’t care about the story, they didn’t investigate anything to find the truth, they didn’t even chase ratings.

    They just kept dropping bombs a week before he could be forced out.

    Doesn’t mean he’s innocent, if anything it means there needs to be an investigation into all of it. But the only way that would have happened was if Planter stayed in, won, and then had an investigation done himself.

    Now that he’s dropped no one is going to look into any of it, in a month he won’t be in any headlines or mentioned again.

    Depending on who replaces him is what may make it a big deal long term.

    But the NYT just smacked down a progressive who was vocally against Israel, if it worked once the oligarchs will keep doing it. A senate seat is too important for them to just not try.