knowingowl

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by knowingowl 3y ago
The problem with the unhinged is that they're also incompetent, generally. Abe was only susceptible to an unhinged assassin because its Japan and violence/guns are so rare, security is/was so lax. Getting close to Abe, even w
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by knowingowl 3y ago
It was not an "award for marksmanship" by any definition and it requires far less effort than learning to drive a car or ride a bicycle. What's the point in being obtuse here?
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by knowingowl 3y ago
Of course actual unhinged will try to assassinate people. That's to be expected in a world with so many people. What has changed is that covert political assassinations by the secret services of nation states is no longer a viable stra
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by knowingowl 3y ago
Just read "doesn't matter" as "I'm not very interested in history" to get a more clear picture of who you're talking to. It's true that it doesn't have a huge impact on modern life but it matter
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by knowingowl 3y ago
The "why" (motive) is the most clear part: JFK was not willing to invade Cuba and depose Castro. To say this this really pissed off the DoD, CIA, Mafia, and Cuban rebels is putting it extremely mildly. They hated JFK with a mu
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by knowingowl 3y ago
"Nobody is going to be arguing in good faith about it." Saying that "nobody" is willing to discuss this in good faith is going way too far. Just because I don't expect anyone to be able to convince me that it wasn
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by knowingowl 3y ago
For the record, a "marine sharpshooter" is an almost meaningless term. Virtually any physically healthy person is capable of meeting this bar with an hour or two of practice. It sounds way more impressive than it is. Oswald was in
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by knowingowl 3y ago
If the JFK and RFK assassinations were done by secret services it seems to make a lot of sense (psychologically) that they'd use people that were the "opposite" of themselves as patsies. So some right-wing CIA people (and the