MemeVC: School shootings

MemeVC refers to taking the VC approach to deciding what to believe: “buy into” a lot of crazy, obscure things that might be false, because the benefits of being right 1 time, outweigh the costs of looking foolish 99 other times.

“Rationality is risk management,” said Taleb.

What if we take that seriously?

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The Texas shootings are shrouded in confusion and disbelief. Absurd, unexplainable things happened:

1 — “Why wouldn’t the police go in and protect the children?”

Brynn Tannehill @BrynnTannehill

Let's review the (reported) performance of the Uvalde Police and CBP response team on Tuesday: - Waited 35-60 minutes before entering school while kids bled out, wasting golden hour - Tazed / arrested parents begging them to go in, and attempting to rescue their kids themselves

2 — “Why is the police radio recording missing?”

Brynn Tannehill @BrynnTannehill

Additional information: * Police reverse themselves and now say that there the school officer wasn't there to try to stop the shooter. * Bluechecks claiming that there's 18 minutes of police radio recording missing

3 — “If Uvalde was part of an AI program that monitors social media for threats and potential shooters, why didn’t it help at all?”

Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear

Well, that didn't work... "Uvalde school district was part of AI program that rooted out potential mass killers and monitored social media for threats and potential shooters? mrgunsngear.org/3yUXqU9 #Texas #Uvalde

mrgunsngear.orgUvalde district was monitoring students’ social media for threatsStaffers say they had been monitoring ‘all social media with a connection to Uvalde as a measure to identify any possible threats that might be made against students and or staff within the district.’

Hypothesis: The FBI or CIA orchestrated or supported the shooting in some way.

If this is even vaguely accurate, it has great explanatory power:

• The police didn’t protect the children because they were told not to.

• The police radio recording is missing because it would incriminate them.

• The AI program was used to monitor potential recruits, not “threats.”

I know — the implications are unthinkable — but set that aside for a moment, and notice how easily that fits together, compared to the endless dissembling of official sources.

And there is a hell of a lot of circumstantial evidence.

Here are a few places to start:

The FBI was “helpfully tracking” potential shooters in Buffalo too

Dr. Benjamin Braddock @GraduatedBen

Interesting article from July, 2019.

buffalonews.comBuffalo FBI agents tracking people believed to pose shooting threatsDiscreetly, the agents say, they are evaluating and watching individuals – about six in this region right now – who they believe are on the path to a mass

The Buffalo gunman was regularly communicating with a former federal agent before the shooting

Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus

A "retired federal agent" had been in regular communication with the Buffalo shooter in an online chat room before the incident

The Buffalo News @TheBuffaloNews

Authorities believe the former agent – believed to be from Texas – was one of at least six individuals who regularly communicated with accused gunman Payton Gendron in an online chat room where racist hatred was discussed, two officials said. https://t.co/gDiawjRd19

The Buffalo shooter killed someone who was building a water-powered car engine (another guy who did this was also murdered)

NOT Sean P. McCarthy @NOTSeanMcCarthy

Man what

One cop (whose wife was shot) tried to stop the shooter, but was prevented from doing so.

Sawyer Hackett @SawyerHackett

Wow. Eva Mireles, a Uvalde teacher, called her husband and told him she had been shot and was dying. Her husband, a police officer, tried to take down the shooter but was detained by other officers and had his gun taken away.

ksat.comOfficer husband of slain Uvalde teacher was detained, had gun taken away after trying to save wifeShocking testimony from the Texas DPS director on Tuesday has revealed even more insight into the “abject failure” of response to the Uvalde shooting that occurred on May 24.

State and local officials, including the Governor, are fighting to keep police records sealed

Texas Tribune @TexasTribune

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has joined the growing list of state and local officials fighting the release of records that could help clarify how the emergency response unfolded during last month’s deadly shooting in Uvalde.

bit.lyTexas agencies resist releasing public records that could help clarify response to Uvalde school shootingThe Texas Tribune and ProPublica have submitted about 70 requests to state and local agencies for emergency response documentation surrounding the mass shooting at Robb Elementary. Most likely won’t be released publicly for months, if ever.

David Hogg, a Parkland shooting survivor and prominent anti-gun activist, publicly shares that his father and grandfather were in the CIA, did stuff he can’t even believe, and he suspects his college classmates are joining as well:

David Hogg 🌻 @davidhogg111

Has anyone else had the experience of having a parent who did a lot of classified stuff and while they can’t tell you about it- you start connecting the dots and realize if you’re even 10% right your parent did some insane stuff?

This suspicion is as old as the phenomenon of mass shootings:

Pelayo Secundus @PelayoSecundus

Since there was a mass shooting in Texas today lets bring up another Texas mass shooter Charles Whitman an ex-Marine & Manchurian candidate like assassin who complained about agonizing headaches & is believed to have been a victim of CIA MK-Ultra mind control experimentation.

I’m probably the 50 millionth person to suspect this. The evidence I’ve shared is far from conclusive, but is hopefully enough to convince you an investigation is merited.

As the story unfolds, see if this hypothesis doesn’t look increasingly plausible.

After all — if there’s only a 1% chance that it’s true — shouldn’t we find out for sure?

Kris Legion 🦺📢 @LegionSocialist

The FBI folks👇