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Model35mech

(2,047 posts) Sun Jul 14, 2024, 06:42 AM Jul 2024

Unfortunately when we don't have answers from others... we invent them.

And we invent them within from within our biases and interests. This is the way human brains function.
This produces fantastical speculations.

They fill the information void like junk food, taking up space but getting at little of real substance and value.

Few of us are in positions where we must urgently act within the void of information. What we need is patience.

Most of the answers we want will emerge in relatively short time from agencies and persons in positions to know the facts.

Yes, some questions may go without answers, maybe unanswered even forever.

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Unfortunately when we don't have answers from others... we invent them. (Original Post) Model35mech Jul 2024 OP

We will probably learn facts from journalists gab13by13 Jul 2024 #1

The early speculation will likely push the shooter's derangement and mental illness... Model35mech Jul 2024 #2

gab13by13

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1. We will probably learn facts from journalists

Reply to Model35mech (Original post)

Sun Jul 14, 2024, 07:07 AM

Jul 2024

before we learn them from Chris Wray. The first police news briefing did not impress me. The FBI will investigate the assassination and the PSP will investigate the murder, is that standard procedure, aren't the 2 events similar? I heard, but I could be wrong, the FBI will determine the motive.

It will be a big deal how the shooter is characterized, I hope it is truthful, whatever it is.

Model35mech

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2. The early speculation will likely push the shooter's derangement and mental illness...

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 14, 2024, 07:22 AM

Jul 2024

I say that because statistically speaking that's pretty much always what happens with spectacular shootings.

No family member or friend is going to want to be associated with the shooter, so they'll be biased to suggest that 'he had issures" when they knew him in High School/Elementary School. Every little thing that can be twisted into a quirk suggesting 'otherness' by non-psychiatric others who knew him will be used as evidence of pre-existing mental problems, etc.

But the guy who did the shooting was thinking plenty well enough to see it as a series problems needing to be solved. And, the SS, state police etc, who are paid to foresee those things, apparently didn't percieve the possibility of the "solutions" figured out by the crazy guy.,

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