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May 18, 2023Liked by Aaron Maté

Journalism is practiced by very few lately - Aaron, you are one of the few - thank you.

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I looked through the Allen shooter's profile after Bellingcat shared his information. He. didn't appear to have actually been ideologically motivated. From his own posts, his sole obsession was becoming a famous mass shooter and perpetuating the cycle of intense media coverage leading to copycat mass shootings. He had studied other shootings to understand what attracts media sensationalism. This is a youtube video the Allen shooter watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD39MICKn6Q

He likely appropriated the white supremacist insignia and Nazi tattoos to mimic the Buffalo shooter, knowing the media's interest would be piqued.

I think it was extremely irresponsible for Bellingcat to publicize the shooter's profile. In their misguided effort to own the cons, they gave him precisely the aggrandizement he was seeking . With a rudimentary amount of research, they should have realized they were being played like a fiddle, but I guess they have a different agenda than public safety. Odd that their objective aligns so perfectly with that of a psychopathic mass murderer.

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@ Aaron Mate

Thanks for your relentless pursuit of the ongoing collusive stench of the corporate media prompter readers 🦜ing of Bellingcat/government sponsored serial BS. 😀

Now they are feigning outrage over Elon Musk having the nerve to express his opinions.🤔

EA

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May 18, 2023·edited May 18, 2023

Thank you, Aaron !! Elon Musk is a miracle that happens once in a century.

He single-handedly unmasked the murderous and deeply corrupt US War party – with Twitter Files (J6 choreographed hoax, Russia-gate immense 5-year hoax, has broken total media censorship of terrorist US attack on NATO member Germany and of Covid conspiracy with Pfizer crime organization, of massive crimes by Nazi-dominated Ukraine government which is a mere puppet of US bipartisan War party, etc.).

Elon Musk immense courage and humanity is fully displayed by his one single three-word tweet:

-- Free Jacob Chansley https://t.co/8BbeXF2Fye

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Brilliant reporting, as usual Mr Mate. Real journalism at work.

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Bellingcat is a CIA front organization -- endlessly proven over and over.

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This is all part of the psyop. Bellingcat is obviously right about this one particular thing. Questioning that is, in fact, insane. So, since Musk is questioning this one thing to try to smear Bellingcat, that "proves" (sic) by association that questioning Bellingcat in general is insane. Now any criticism of Bellingcat can be easily dismissed and the criticizer tarred by association with Musk.

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The security state is rotten. Super rotten.

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Go-to piece for me as of now, most of all because you keep your intellectual and methodological cool.

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Good thing you dropped this under the Pussy Riot tweet, otherwise I might not have seen it. Knowing how the U.S. weaponizes pop culture in their 'soft power' strategy, I wonder in retrospect if PR received any support from the State Dept.

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The "buzz saw" strikes again!

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As Richard Medhurst calls them, bell-end pussies

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Really all this falsehood and evil arises because the synagogue of satan has watered down the goyims faith, they no longer believe in a Day of Judgement, and are willing to accompany the fiddler on the roof in any song. In the case of OPCW however ludicrous.

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