For context, this is from terminator 2 where the protagonist is saved by his best friend in the first 30 min of the film by lying to a terminator cyborg from the future posing as a cop.

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    I’ve never in my life smiled as much as I have today. Random Shooter can have anything he wants or needs from me, an ebike rental, a kidney, whatever. It’s utterly delightful and I hope it happens more often, and I say that shamelessly as a practicing Christian.

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    I love how the news is saying it’s an all out manhunt. Like how many people get shot in New York? They’re gonna shut down half of manhattan over this dead dickbag?

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    “who are you looking for?”
    “a shooter”
    “who did he shoot?”
    “a healthcare ceo”
    “oh cool high five”

    was probably not the response they were hoping for

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    Yeah, on all platforms I’ve been to I’ve seen nothing but bitter jokes and snarky comments about the situation. Imagine being such a massive shitbag that nobody gives a damn when you are literally murdered in public and in broad daylight.

    If your legacy is feeding off people’s misfortune and suffering then I’d say this outcome is part of the risk you took. What goes around, comes around. I don’t expect the leeches to learn from that tho.

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    If I see someone shop lifting food, no I didn’t. If I see someone shoot down a ceo in manhattan no I didn’t.

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    Here’s something we should all consider.

    Back in the day, the Irish Republican Army was one of the most feared terrorist groups in the world.

    At their height they only had about fifty full time assassins.

    But every assassin had a massive ‘rear echelon.’

    When the shooter came to town, he’d have a choice of three or four safe houses, a dozen drivers, and at least two doctors to go to if he was injured.

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        Funny thing. I was working in NYC in public health on 9/11/2001. Afterwards, we got a lot of lectures on terrorism and mass casualty incidents.

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        Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe could be a good place to start. The central bit being told is about the abduction and murder of a woman, but most of the book is really about the history of the IRA and the Troubles, giving context to the abduction.

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    j. Non-permissive environment: An environment in which friendly forces anticipate obstructions to, or interference with, operations.

    Corpo executives and billionaires about to find out that no matter the snitch line reward money they put up, people magically didn’t see anything.

    Policing requires a degree of consent from the public, you’ll be turning away search party volunteers for a child kidnapping, but I don’t see a line of people ready to narc on shoplifting or drug possession.

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      That, and it’s a health insurance company.

      They can offer whatever rewatd they want. Their entire business model is based on promising to provide money before refusing to cough it up.

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        They’ll find ways to deny it. Saying that the information in and of itself was insufficient as they needed to send someone out there with a firearm, therefore providing further health insurance liabilities and therefore nullifies the reward.

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      That’s the biggest problem with militarizing the police.

      You get cops who think they are the Punisher and citizens who hate the cops on the beat.

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    I’m genuinely curious If any of you didn’t immediately know the context from this screenshot.

    there must be someone, but it’s such an iconic movie that I’m curious if there is anyone who recognize it immediately.

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      Of course some people didn’t? It’s over thirty years old.

      Edit: to put it into perspective, the movie’s release is closer to the breakup of the Beatles than to the present day.

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      That’s one of the biggest problems with the internet. People think that because they’ve seen something three of four times the entire world knows about it. Probably everyone on lemmy has seen that movie, but there are plenty of people who don’t like science fiction or Arnold or action movies.

      If you go by lemmy, Linux is more popular than Adele.

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      I didn’t recognize it immediately. I haven’t watched it in a long time. It felt familiar though, and it all clicked as soon as I read “terminator 2”.

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      I did, but then my family had this movie on VHS when I was younger and I’ve probably watched it like 100 times. It came on TV once when I was on the phone with my friend and I quoted all the lines just ahead of the TV. I bet that annoyed the shit out of her.

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        I was doing that the other day while my wife was watching Ace Ventura… Haven’t seen it in probably 20 years, doesn’t stop me… Your gun is digging into my hip…

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      That’s a good question and easy to answer, so I’ll try: Anyone who didn’t see the movie, does not remember this scene. Glad I could help.

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      Looks like any of hundreds of movies from that time. It’s been literal decades since I saw it, I was probably the same age my daughter is now. Once I read the reference I realized that I do recognize T1000, but I definitely don’t remember that kid.

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      I’ve seen the movie ages ago, didn’t remember this scene at all.

      However, I recognized the T1000 actor immediately, so I knew it was from one of the terminator sequels, but not even immediately T2.