Shooting reported on MIT campus

[minionofmidas]

Does anyone know if this has a political motive or is it just two nut jobs that happen to be from Chechnya originally.

Nutjobs usually have a political motive.

Not always though, I don't know how people from Chechnya would hate America.

Uh... you haven't been spending much time thinking about things in that case. (Not that I'm blaming you, mind. This is what you get to when you only follow news through the headlines, basically.)

Chechen military resistance to Russian colonial occupation has had a strong Fundamentalist Islamic streak since it's earliest days in the 19th century. Writing a long argument about how x naturally leads to y in this world we live in would break my time budget right now.

[minionofmidas]

Black Hat is reported to have been killed.


White Hat guy has reportedly been identified as Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University student who has been missing since March.

Whoever came up with this is a fukcing moron.

The traditional media is a joke. Not sure why people still take them seriously.

Eh, I think the internet community is more to blame for the Tripathi thing blowing up, honestly.

The traditional media's use of the internet is a disgraceful joke.

[minionofmidas]

This is allegedly his social media profile:

http://vk.com/id160300242

So he wrote this 1 year ago...

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Looks like a Chechen lunatic, indeed.

Huh? It's a timehonored bitter joke adapted to Russia, where the Black, the Mexican and the Chinese guy of the California version would have be Caucasians to make it work.

[minionofmidas]

I wonder how many Texas conservatives which they had sensible zoning laws now...

That was what we were wondering about, hearing about that (including the apparently exaggerated number of 60 dead) on the radio. Who the hell puts a fertilizer plant inside town, near the high school and the hospital, when there's vast miles of emptiness around? Don't these people realize a fertilizer plant is a security risk?

[minionofmidas]

Ultraconservative Arkansas should be expelled from the Union. The only good thing they gave to the World was our beloved Macho Supremo Alpha Male Bubba Clinton.

Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzell, Jimmie Driftwood, Levon Helm, Billy Bob Thornton, Gauge *leer* ... yeah I admit, not that impressive a list overall.

[minionofmidas]

Not sure if this has been posted or not yet, but this is supposedly his real twitter profile: https://twitter.com/J_tsar

Good. I approve of stress free kind of guys.

[minionofmidas]

How does a 19 year-old slip away? They had a million cops/FBI/etc there and he just drove off? No helicopters?

My bet is he is close by to the location of the shooting. He is probably in some strangers house and is holding them hostage or maybe killed them and his trying to wait it out. That's probably why they are going door to door.

That's probably their line of thinking, anyways.