All the posts and statements going on with lines like “this woman is dead b/c if trump” or describing the incident as tragic are wild.

Maybe someone here can talk me off this point.

I get that a family lost a loved one but I just don’t care?

Why should I feel sympathy for a QAnon freak who would kill me?

  • CarlMarksToeCheese [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    There’s a piece of me that can’t let go of the fact that she’s still a human being. She got pumped full of hateful propoganda and charged in believing she was doing something good, and died for it. And it’s an incredibly forceful response to shoot and kill someone in a situation like that, idk.

    Am I crying over it? Not at all. She’d probably want to kill me and you and a lot of people we care about, she’s a vet who thought breaching a door like that was a safe idea, she’s also a vet, I could go on.

    There’s a nugget of empathy rattling around in me that keeps me from completely jumping up and down over this, maybe it’s misguided, maybe because her beliefs aren’t fully on display at that moment. It’s an internal thing for me and I definitely won’t scold anyone but you asked and I can kind of understand where those people are coming from.

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      She got pumped full of hateful propoganda and charged in believing she was doing something good, and died for it.

      Given her career it’s far more likely she was an agent provocateur than a true believer.

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        An agent provocateur wouldn’t play chicken with a Secret Service officer that has a gun trained on her head. This is some really bewildering shit. Secret Service doesn’t play games. She wasn’t inciting other people to violence, she was leading the charge.

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          That’s a very good point. We’re even closer to collapse than I thought if the NSA or similar has true-believer fash on payroll.

          *This comment kinda reads laughably naive if you think about Operation Paperclip or w/e, but those fash had handlers, were targeted at labor/red scare/whatever, etc. This seems different.

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        What makes you say that? Just curious, I just know she’s an Air Force vet with 4? tours so the possibility she’s just a veteran Q believer is higher than operative in my book, but if there’s specifics to her career I’d like to learn about it

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          The news outlet that first broke her identity reported that she was a ‘high level security official’.

          In case you’re not aware, 3 letter agencies pretty routinely deputize troops for intel work. I’ve known enlisted troops who worked for the NSA when they were active duty, so a ‘high level security official’ would almost certainly be one of those (haven’t been able to find her rank but I’m kinda over digging any deeper considering it’s all tabloid trash and lib rags doing the reporting). I saw some other tweets claiming she was a cop but those seemed dubious at best.

          Are there authentically Q-pilled troops? Absolutely. Are there authentically Q-pilled cops? Absolutely. My argument is that the authentically Q-pilled troops doing intel work are outnumbered by agent provocateurs. The FBI’s got folks on the ‘kidnap Gretchen Whitmer’ and ‘bomb the Hoover Dam’ plots but they don’t have anyone on the ground yesterday? Seems far-fetched.

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            The Air Force is crammed full of Colorado Springs ultra-right wing Evangelical psychos. Like half the Air Force brass are apocalyptic death cult Evangelicals. It’s a huge and notorious open secret.

            A high level Air Force security goon is pretty much the core audience for Q-shit.