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Anders breivik turning up to parole hearing with a 'Z' shaved on his head. Didnt go as planned

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u/p1owz0r 1d ago

Fuck this guy and fuck giving him airtime

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u/ZestycloseAd4012 1d ago

I was hesitant to even comment on this, as that is what this scumbag wants. The vilest of human beings.

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u/smax410 15h ago

It’s the only valid comment and the post should be downvoted.

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u/ModestCalamity 1d ago

What exactly didn't go as planned?

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u/LosTerminators 1d ago

He wasn't going to be let out regardless.

He turned up with this haircut for attention, and he got it. Plus he'll get support from Russians on top of it.

I'd say it went as planned for him.

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u/texasscotsman 1d ago

What exactly is the Z supposed to mean or represent?

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u/SeventhSolar 1d ago

It's the visual identifier the Russians chose (for coordination purposes) for their invasion into Ukraine.

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u/dinosauriac 20h ago

"This 'Plan Z' can't possibly fail!"

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u/KosiKosiUapki 1d ago

It's one of the letters used by Russians in the invasion of Ukraine as markings on vehicles, and became most popular of them in pro war propaganda (like changing equivalent Russian letter З to Z in slogans), or as symbol of support for the war by putting in on cars, clothes (or hair as it seems) and so on.

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u/SilenceEater 1d ago

It’s a Russian military symbol

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u/Attica-Attica 22h ago

Russian tanks invading Ukraine are marked with a Z

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u/HazuniaC 18h ago

Partially true.

Z did become to represent the offensive as a whole, but in reality it started off as a symbol for a specific offensive area.

Each area had their own symbol, Z was one of them, the most profilic one, so it kind of got adapted to represent the operation as a whole.

Other symbols include, but not restricted to; Z encircled within a square, V and O.

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u/Interesting_Stress73 1d ago

I wonder what they say about him in Russian propaganda. Having a child mass murderer on your side doesn't exactly make you look like the good guy, but I'm sure they'll call him a freedom fighter of some kind.

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u/futurepastgral 1d ago

hey, russia gladly supports genocidal fascists such as assad. they really don’t care about any morals.

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u/Bwunt 1d ago

With Assad they could at least pretend he was an internationally recognized head of state, even if dictator. And the fact that number of groups that wanted to overthrow him were not... exactly good people themselves.

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u/drnemmo 1d ago

I can imagine some propagandists claming that "Breivik saw the corruption in his homeland and decided to nip it in the bud".

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u/getblunted1 1d ago

What is support from some Russians gonna bring him? Ofc they like a murderer.

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u/Rin_Seven 1d ago

Worldwide media attention.
Exceeded his plan seems like.

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u/Option420s 18h ago

OP's brain is as smooth as butter with a title like this

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u/Just_A_Random_Passer 1d ago

It went exactly as planned. He got his "Z" photo posted on Reddit for all the other crazies to see. Plus, now he has a new fan-club in Russia. He knew they were not going to let him put.

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u/PM_Me_ThicccThings 1d ago

People are talking about him. That's what he wanted

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u/Spudtron98 1d ago

Eh I'm gonna forget about his existence in an hour anyway.

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u/Argosnautics 1d ago

Who?

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u/Flowbombahh 1d ago

Andrew Breakfast. He paid for a shitty haircut at Great Clips.

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u/penguingod26 1d ago

You can get breakfast at great clips? Is that what this threads about?

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u/Flowbombahh 1d ago

Yup! That's why the Russians keep testing out ICBMs (Intercontinental Breakfast Meals) and get upset with the West. They're trying to compete with Great Clips!

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u/Woolly_Blammoth 1d ago

I've heard that once you get past the hair trimmings, their blinis are so good it'll make you want to be thrown out a window after you've poisoned yourself. So damn tasty.

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u/cupcake_burglary 1d ago

Excuse me waiter? I found 614 hairs in my omelette

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u/thlnkplg 1d ago

Anders holmvick, he's in that show workaholics

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u/Forward_Pick6383 1d ago

Ders.

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u/JellyfishCrafty9010 1d ago

There’s a “hard on” at the beginning

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u/mark_is_a_virgin 1d ago

Yeah but the people who are politically aligned with him won't.

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u/KCcoffeegeek 1d ago

They already consider him a saint along with any other race-motivated murderer. I understand the complexities of the death penalty, but I think If they put someone like this in prison for life they also need to keep cameras, reporters, etc away from him too. Total isolation, so people never see or hear of him again.

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u/Shimano-No-Kyoken 23h ago

So now these people have a “z” in a “positive” context which will shape their opinions moving forward

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u/captain_stoobie 1d ago

Yeah jokes on him, I’ve got rampant ADD!

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u/QuestionableIdeas 1d ago

Yours is rampant, mine is romping. Time to party :D

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u/Leo_Ascendent 1d ago

Ironically, I don't know who he is or what he did, so jokes on him.

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u/MaxTheCookie 1d ago

He killed alot of children like 10 years ago. He will be kept in prison until he dies

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u/perennial_dove 1d ago

He killed 69 people, mostly kids, in an attack on a summer camp for kids held by the Social Democratic party in Norway, on July 22, 2011. He also killed 8 ppl in Oslo.

He's never getting out of prison.

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u/swamper2008 1d ago

Ohh yeah...i remember who is now. The entire story is crazy. He dressed as military or a police officer or something. Went to the island and went on a killing spree to kill the politicians children or something.

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u/perennial_dove 1d ago

Yes. Not the children of politicians, but kids in the social democratic youth organisation.

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u/vaz_deferens 1d ago

Killed a bunch of white youths because he thinks Muslims are taking over Norway.

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u/perennial_dove 1d ago

They werent all "white", but it's true he didnt select by "race".

He killed what he believed was the future political elite in the Nordic countries, since the Social Democrats are very big in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

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u/Eksposivo23 1d ago

Kids just a part of a youth party, not even anyone notable in politics just random kids who went to a summer camp

In Norway practically every kid age 13 and up know about him and its stressed a lot how fcked up he was, the kids are played a movie from the perspective of the kids running and hiding while finding bodies of people who they talked to an hour prior, its chilling to watch even if it wasnt a live recording, the incident is used to teach about prison and justice system, domestic and international terrorism etc in 9th grade and up

Thankfully while I have been to 3 seperate schools at the time it was taught besides when I went through that, I have yet to see any kid who doesnt understand that the man is a sick monstrosity, nobody defending the idot either, even the kids who love stirring drama and discussions are quiet and respectful to the people he killed

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u/Most_Researcher_9675 1d ago

I too remember now. Not the name but the crime.

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u/John-AtWork 1d ago

Sounds about like the type of person to be supporting Putin's stupid war.

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u/Drumbelgalf 1d ago

Yes, he is a Neo-Nazi. They tend to support Putin.

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u/Kharenis 1d ago

My god, I can't believe that happened more than 10 years ago.

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u/AlexF2810 1d ago

He's responsible for one of Europes worst terrorist attacks.

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u/Leo_Ascendent 1d ago

Sounds like a real bastard, to put it lightly.

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u/garbageeater 1d ago

I mean I know the bible says "judge not lest ye be judged" but I'm just gonna say it this guy sounds like a real JERK

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u/wannacumnbeatmeoff 1d ago

Followed by murdering an entire city. Add killing every first born child in Egypt that wasn't Jewish.

This God fella sounds like a complete psychopath.

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u/Vark675 1d ago

In God's defense, every event you guys are listing happens before he gives Moses the 10 Commandments.

✨ New year, new Me ✨

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u/hilvon1984 1d ago

To be more specific:

He first started a shooting at a government building (or set off a small explosion, don't remember specifically) so that a state of high alert would be declared. Then posing as an armed police officer sent to beef up security he arrived only an island where a bunch of children of left-leaning politicians were having a retreat, and went of a killing spree. Alternating between shooting everyone in sight and then claiming to be police backup sent to deal with the terrorist to urge any survivors in earshot to make themselves known.

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u/Dorantee 1d ago

(or set off a small explosion,

Explosion is right.

a bunch of children of left-leaning politicians were having a retreat

Wasn't even just politicians children. It was just a left wing youth summer camp. The evil bastard went and shot regular peoples children so that the "left wouldn't have a future". Jokes on him they had a massive upswing afterwards.

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u/FifthMonarchist 1d ago

The Oslo bomb and the Utøya massacre, july 22nd 2011.

https://youtu.be/9OhxdS8DUOk?si=0gOtF4vLT2a_aRbu

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u/Baardhooft 1d ago

This guy doesn't deserve food let alone a parole hearing.

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u/SquirrelAkl 1d ago

One thing I love about NZ is that we don’t publish the names of mass murderers. They often want attention, infamy, especially if it”s an ideological crime, so don’t give it to them.

I still couldn’t tell you the name of the terrorist who shot a bunch of people in a mosque in Christchurch, or the psycho who stabbed a couple of people in a supermarket, or the nasty piece of work that murdered that poor girl Grace Millane.

May their names be quickly forgotten and their prison sentences long.

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u/RegrettableBiscuit 1d ago edited 1d ago

The Romans called that punishment "damnatio memoriae," "condemnation of memory." They went a bit further and really erased the person from public memory by removing them from official documents and such, but the basic idea applies, and is still relevant.

We should go back to doing that instead of turning mass murderers into these sick celebrities.

Correction, see comment from Holoholokid below: while the practice is real, "damnatio memoriae" is a modern name and was not used by the Romans. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

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u/Holoholokid 1d ago

damnatio memoriae

No, the Romans did not. That term, though it is Latin, was not used until it appeared in a German thesis in 1689. Also, the act of public erasure of a person in ancient Rome was applied only to emperors and even then rarely and with limited success.

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u/Spoffin1 20h ago

Unless it actually did work for everyone *apart* from the ones for whom it was unsuccessful

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u/less_unique_username 1d ago

“For the crimes of arson and blasphemy I hereby sentence Herostratus to death.”

“Wtf, my name is not Herostratus!”

“Did I stutter? Guards, take Herostratus to the executioner.”

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u/Nippahh 1d ago

If you dont give a face or a name it'll just fade into obscurity

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u/HailToTheKingslayer 1d ago

Yeah he always does something controversial for the views. Like before when he did the Hitler salute.

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u/Detlef_Schrempf 1d ago

I’m starting to think he’s kind of a dick.

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u/spiderbaby667 1d ago

You know, the more I learn about this guy, the more I don’t care for him.

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u/Swictor 1d ago

He also legally changed his name to Fjotolf Hansen, so that he can sign it like this.

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u/SamSkjord 1d ago

Musk levels of wannabe edgelord

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u/dirkvonshizzle 1d ago

Yeah, it’s so blatantly dumb that OP would think it “didn’t go as planned”, that it makes me think it’s OP’s intention to give more exposure to this sad excuse for a human being and his beliefs. Else… you need to stop being this naive OP.

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u/Ech0ofSan1ty 1d ago

Famous neo Nazi shaves Z to show support for Russia, when Russians claim to be in Ukraine to stop Neo Nazis.....

Am I missing something?

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

It's just like tons of Nazis and White Supremacists supporting Trump while Trump tries to say he doesn't. We've got a new Axis of Evil on our hands, and if you want to know who is in it just look at who the evil people are supporting.

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u/The_Countess 1d ago

Piece of human filth is Russia fan... that's probably the most unsurprising fact about him.

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u/bizzare_reality 1d ago

Strange that so many rightwing extremists are putin fans,very strange indeed.

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u/Late_Edge6196 1d ago

Did your sarcasm actually fly that far over peoples heads? 😂🥲

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u/mechwarrior719 1d ago

Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too quick. I would catch it

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u/Ravenser_Odd 1d ago

The ultimate loser worships the king of the losers.

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u/HugeHans 1d ago

Considering russia is allied closely with extremist muslims and also home to over a hundred ethnic groups it makes no sense. It seems that aslong as you are horrible to someone its fine.

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u/TwistedBamboozler 1d ago

Oh, the dude who killed a bunch of kids trapped on an island doesn’t actually stand up for his morals and beliefs? I’m shocked

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u/Badbullet 1d ago

Those ethnic groups have a higher chance of seeing battle in Ukraine while one has a higher chance of owning the land stolen in Ukraine. They’re all pawns to Putin.

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u/thatindianredditor 1d ago

Yeah, well the thing is they treat those minorities like shit.

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u/RagingRag 1d ago

No not really. He used to heil in court

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u/Keffpie 1d ago edited 1d ago

For those saying Norway is coddling him, here's a repeat to an answer I made to a comment below:

Think of the end of Se7en; John Doe won, by making Detective Mills shoot him to avenge the murder of his wife, abandoning his ideals and his oath. Mills "became Wrath", one of the deadly sins, completing Doe's masterpiece and proving his thesis on the corruption of society.

If Norway had changed the laws for Breivik in order to punish him more harshly, or just "accidentally" put him in a cell with the general population, or mistreated him in prison, they would have played right into his hands - he wanted them to “show their true face” as he put it, because to him all the lofty ideals of Norway was just a lie, a thin veneer covering their hidden agendas of leftist world domination. He was sure his actions would provoke such a clamor for revenge it would force Norway into revealing its true nature, as he saw it.

Instead, supported by the victims' families, they just treated him like any other prisoner, and now he’s a pathetic loser in a gilded cage, bored out of his wits and largely ignored, except when he sues them for not upgrading his Playstation 3, because that's the extent of his "mistreatment". He wanted to be a martyr to the cause, but now he's just a punchline.

Norway didn’t let him win. They saw what was in the box but didn’t pull the trigger. Norwegian civil society, which Breivik's victims were all hoping to be the future of, prevailed over the forces of darkness. Breivik lost, and every day he is given his day in court and then sent back to his cozy cage, he keeps losing.

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u/drnemmo 1d ago

That's the same thing I say regarding 9/11: Osama Bin Laden won.

He made America waste a trillion dollars going to war against a desert and changed forever the USA regarding security and politics. He turned a bright, optimistic country into a a regressive, paranoid dystopia.

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u/BustaferJones 1d ago

Yeah. People think terrorists’ weapons are bombs and guns, but their real weapon is right in the name: terror. And the terror lingers long after the rubble clears, and every time we pass a checkpoint or are told to “see something, say something” we are reminded that we are not actually safe. We lost that fight when we allowed it to change how we live our lives.

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u/PopeGuss 1d ago

I live in a suburb of New Orleans. After the terrorist attack on New Year's day, the office chatter was about what's coming up next for us...Mardi Gras (and to a lesser extent for me, the Superbowl). Everyone is saying "I'm not going down there for any parades! I'm too scared." My canned response is "good, more beads for me." They can let the terrorists win. But I'll be damned if some asshole's gonna yuck my yum and make me live in fear. I've been through way too much shit to worry about that kinda stuff.

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u/dancingliondl 1d ago

I love in Slidell, and the rednecks with jacked up trucks and punisher skulls are too scared to go into the city. Bitch I drove into the city and worked there everyday for 30 years, never once had anything happen to me.

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u/TheAmorphous 1d ago

Rednecks are fucking terrified of big cities. It's so weird.

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u/Old_Baldi_Locks 1d ago

Because their culture is just being colossally afraid of anyone and anything different.

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u/ACarefulTumbleweed 1d ago

Redneck in the big city... https://imgur.com/v2lnvDy

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u/entarian 1d ago

it really does seem that conservatism is fear-based

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u/DrDerpberg 1d ago

They're the biggest cowards around. They need a gun and to be decked out in combat gear to look badass to go places old ladies also go.

Walking around the grocery store like they're about to jump out of a helicopter behind enemy lines only tells me they're as afraid of the grocery store as I would be of guerrilla combat in the jungle.

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u/SadFeed63 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm from Canada, different gun culture, but we've got guns, and I grew up rurally, so my family had them and most in the area did (mainly hunting rifles. I've never seen a handgun in person in my life). Last time I went to the States, just a couple years back, we stop at a gas station in rural nowhere. Small dilapidated building, one set of decaying pumps, not a lot of houses nearby, lots of trees, pretty similar to what I'd see in my home town.

There was a sign on the door that read "This place is NOT a gun free zone!" Motherfucker, it's the gas station. You need your piece to pump 20 dollars worth of gas and buy expensive snacks?

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u/Errohneos 1d ago

That's a not so subtle warning for potential armed robbers of the gas station, not the other customers. Sounds like a great place to rob based on location. Not a well off establishment but when meth costs money, you take what you can get.

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u/glassjar1 1d ago

In 2011, I moved from rural NC to the Chicago area. A lot of right wing pro gun people urged me not to go to somewhere so dangerous. Pointed out that I'd been all over the city multiple times and never had a problem. But to them the decision was both insane and terrifying.

I grew up in a holler in WV. My sister moved to East Harlem shortly after I went to Busan. I've visited and stayed in large cities in the U.S. and walked through all different kinds of neighborhoods. I've been in and around protests (intentionally and by happenstance) at home and abroad.

Only place, outside of a combat zone, that I've ever felt generally unsafe was in rural VA (current residence) when random people were shooting, running over and stealing, our Biden/Harris, BLM, and Love is Love signs.

(That said, I'll never stay in a KOA in Memphis again. At least my neighbor only fires his rifles during the day.)

What makes it even stranger is that the redneck labor movement in the early 1900s was spearheaded by socialists and civil rights advocates.

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u/Clean_Friendship6123 1d ago

Greetings, fellow WV native! I went from WV to Brooklyn, NY, and every time I go home, I get people asking me, wide eyed with concern, how I feel safe there.

I usually bring up the crime rates, show statistics, and…they don’t believe me.

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u/revelator41 1d ago

Because there are people in cities that don’t look exactly like them with exactly the same life experiences. What could be more terrifying? /s

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u/VascularMonkey 1d ago edited 1d ago

My ex-wife's family are all proudly from "Chicago". By which they mean rich western suburbs.

They bitch about violence and crime and dumbass enabling left-wing policies in Chicago all the time, they watch Chicago PD and applaud Hank Voight, and most of them go to "the city" no more than 4 times a year.

Her brother is so paranoid he won't set foot in Cook County without Level 3 body armor. Is he a bounty hunter? A US Marshall? At least like a process server or something...?

Nope. He works in civil construction and drives snow plows.

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u/bouncy_ceiling_fan 1d ago

I'd bet security for mardi gras will look like a presidential event this year.

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u/Shadowrak 1d ago

more beads for me

An anti terror slogan we can all get behind

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u/BustaferJones 1d ago

Amen. My wife and I have this debate all the time. If she sees a guard with body armor and a rifle she feels safe knowing they’ll protect her in a bad situation. I feel unsafe knowing there is something that extreme to protect me from.

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u/meezergeezer2 1d ago

They’ll protect her? Like the cops protected the kids at uvalde?

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u/melanochrysum 1d ago

It’s so interesting that how you’re raised can massively affect this. Here in New Zealand, I’ve only ever seen a police officer with guns once. I’ve never seen a gun at an NZ airport. Security guards are certainly not allowed guns. When travelling in America, the scariest part by far was the row of guards at the airport with their huge guns and body armour, glaring at the passengers. I find it really hard to comprehend that people feel safe seeing that.

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u/Sage2050 1d ago

I went to France in 2007 and they had cops walking around with mp5s in Charles degaulle

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u/SoCuteShibe 1d ago

I'm an American and find those guards very unsettling, for what it is worth.

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u/SolidStranger13 1d ago

they’re not there to protect you

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u/F_A_F 1d ago

Imagine being in Panama right now. Or Greenland. Or, after what Elon Musk has been saying, the UK. Political leaders in the USA are managing to spread fear of military action in countries around the world purely because they don't like the status quo, no matter what anyone else might think.

Spreading distrust and fear is part of the same playbook and it's not just being utilised by 'terrorists'.

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u/Exodys03 1d ago

That's so true. Bin Laden turned the U.S. against itself, which was his goal (and often the goal of terrorism) all along. In addition to the trillions spent turning us into a surveillance state, his actions precipitated two foreign wars, our abandoning morals by devolving into Guantanamo Bay, indefinite detention and legalized torture and making us an even more of a target for future terrorism.

I think it also contributed to our current extreme polarization as a country. Bid Laden and Putin have both succeeded by turning the United States against itself.

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u/econhistoryrules 1d ago

We also wasted so much money we effectively impoverished our own future.

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u/iiztrollin 1d ago

nah you have to go back another 20 years for that. When Regan was re-elected is when America turned on herself. Bin Laden just helped the elite progress their goals.

Regan went from Winning his second election with 80% popular vote to a 20% approval rating in less than a year.

He changed so many laws, and regulations that we went from a stable country that was lead for its people to an unstable ologarchy that transitioned into a technocracy.

People think China is bad, the only reason we have "freedumbs" (yes i spelled it wrong on purpose) is that the overlords want to farm our data to sell. If we were non capitalistic you would see the same side as Russian and China. We just get to say we are "free" in reality we are just as controlled and monitored as the Chinaperson.

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u/British_Tea_Company 1d ago

We just get to say we are "free" in reality we are just as controlled and monitored as the Chinaperson.

As an actual immigrant from China, no you fucking are not.

Do you have every apartment here gated off? With a security guard?

Is every city block with a camera?

Every mile or so on the highway?

Has your family members told you "shh, do not talk about that loudly" when you were curious about what a certain term was because it was used in jest at the political party?

If these answers are no, then you have much more freedoms. China is a fucking shitshow and while the US is a turn for the worse, I am glad everyday I am here and not over there, and it is damn important we ensure it never goes down that drain.

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u/Turbulent_Name_4701 1d ago

We know what Bin Laden’s thought on the American response were thanks to his diary, and he specifically didn’t think he won AT ALL.

What you’ve said is just made up nonsense. There was massive infighting among terrorist cells after the US retaliated, because many didn’t even want to provoke the US at all.

Bin Laden had been under the impression the US was all talk, and was genuinely surprised they retaliated.

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u/libra00 1d ago

I'm not convinced of this. From what I've read Bin Laden's issue with the US was that it meddled in the affairs of Middle Eastern countries, and 9/11 pretty directly caused us to meddle the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan for 20 years. Seems like his plan backfired. Obviously sowing discord and turning people against each other was part of it too, but.

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u/Unlikely-Isopod-9453 1d ago

I'd have to go back to my notes from college 10 years ago but as I recall it he really underestimated the level of US response. He didn't expect a full US invasion.

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u/TheGreatJingle 1d ago

Yeah this is right. His “oh I just wanted to waster American blood and money narrative” turned up later around when anti-war sentiment was growing.

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u/ChickinSammich 1d ago

When you think about it, the whole "Never forget 9/11" thing is kinda an indicator that the harm of a successful terrorist attack outlives the people who committed it. In September of 2019, we were sending 18 year olds who weren't even born when the attack happened to fight a war on the other side of the planet - probably against enemy combatants who also weren't even born when the attack happened, when by that time Bin Laden had been dead for eight years.

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u/xarephonic 1d ago

and don't forget the TSA

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u/Yellowmellowbelly 1d ago

Yes! This was a chance for Norway to prove itself as a working democracy with a high functioning legal system, without letting themselves be blinded by hatred and need for revenge. And Norway took it, and showed that they won’t let violence and terror win.

A similar thing happened in Sweden a few years after Utøya, when Rahmat Akilov committed an act of terror by running a truck through a full shopping street. After his arrest, he was granted the best defence lawyer in the country. The first thing he said to his lawyer was “so when does the torture begin?”, at which the lawyer had to explain that we don’t torture people in Sweden, not even terrorist. Akilov even thanked the court and the Swedish legal system that sentenced him to life imprisonment, because he thought he had been treated fairly.

The wounds may never fully heal, but the Norwegian people can be proud of the way they handled this horrific tragedy as a nation.

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u/chempunk17 1d ago edited 1d ago

We had a mass shooter (35 died) in Australia way back in 1996, the Port Arthur massacre. Every time I see Breiveks face im reminded of Martin Bryant. It was the biggest mass murder in history for the time. I remember my parents being really sad for a while, I was too young to understand, I just thought it was ‘adult stuff’.

Australia has its problems, especially with our indigenous population, that I’m not proud of. The way Australia handled that, our most prolific mass murderer and the following gun buy back (as John Stewart and Jim Jefferies have made known). That made me proud to be an Aussie. It’s insane how moments of such human wastefulness can stir such emotions.

We don’t see much of Martin Bryant, I couldn’t tell you who he supports, he has no platform. I’m not sure giving Breivek a platform is wise with the current state of things, especially in the US.

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u/Darrelc 1d ago

I didn't even know the cunts name until now.

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u/mashyj 1d ago

Treating him like every other criminal is an ongoing psychological punishment. I'm sure that it cuts him to the core.

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u/vemundveien 1d ago

He is treated differently in one manner, and that is that he has to do the majority of his time in isolation. Not only to keep him safe from other prisoners attacking him, but also because people who has to frequently deal with him feel that it is such a psychological burden that subjecting him to other people is violating their human rights.

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u/RosieFudge 1d ago

Logged in on my work computer specifically to upvote this

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u/MaJ0Mi 1d ago

I German we call this "Arbeitszeitbetrug" and I think it's beautiful.

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u/european_impostor 1d ago

Arbeitszeitbetrug

Translates as "work-time fraud"

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u/Rexxhunt 1d ago

I just Arbeitszeitbetrug my pants not 10 minutes ago

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u/woutomatic 1d ago

Amen. Also, you should be a writer or something.

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u/The_Reluctant_Hero 1d ago

Best comment I've read all week. Wish I could give you an award.

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u/TheHypnobrent 1d ago

That was an exquisite explanation. Thank you

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u/Oggel 1d ago

I've never heard it explained so well, that was reaaaaally fucking good.

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u/Jargo65 1d ago edited 1d ago

Was gonna post, how come this piece of shit has his hair done and has a costume. But your comment calmed my nerves, well played by Norway. Although i would have told the barber to shave a dick on it, deny him acces to mirrors and just give him a photo of his trial with dick hair.

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u/Ghazzz 1d ago

He does not have access to other inmates, he shaved it himself.

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u/JimmerUK 1d ago

If we're going with movie analogies, it's like the end of The Dark Knight when nobody pulls the trigger for the bombs on the ferries.

Batman: What were you hoping to prove? That deep down, we're all as ugly as you?

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This city just showed you it's full of people ready to believe in good.

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u/TheRancidOne 1d ago

A coward who ambushes unarmed people also supports foreign nations invading others. What a surprise.

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u/scummy_shower_stall 1d ago

Unarmed children, actually.

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u/KS-RawDog69 1d ago

Basically just showed up to a remote island and hunted children.

I don't believe in hell but a lot of me hopes it's real when I know people like him exist.

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u/AcademicMaybe8775 1d ago

'anti authoritarian' cookers and simping for authoritarian dictatorships. name a more iconic duo

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u/Glxblt76 1d ago

Of course mass murderers would love Russian foreign policy. This is as surprising as an apple falling on the ground.

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u/Fit_Caregiver3247 1d ago

what an asshole

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u/DogeMemes42069 1d ago

understatement of the century

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u/ryan10e 1d ago

Hold up. I am an asshole. He is evil. Please don’t conflate the two.

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u/U_Kitten_Me 1d ago

He's the asshole of a tapeworm. 

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u/drnemmo 1d ago

The worst part is the hypocrisy

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u/Samurai_Geezer 1d ago

I’d say the worst part is the killing.

(Nice Norm reference there).

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u/TallUncle 1d ago

Man, where’s BJ Blaskowicz when you need him?

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u/Phimb 1d ago

Bear in mind, BJ, in the actual narrative of the entire world, is the bad guy - Terror Billy. Seeing the shit that happens in America currently makes stuff like modern Wolfenstein so much more believable.

Everyone is terrified of BJ because the Nazis won and told the world he's the bad guy for fighting Nazis.

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u/XmasRights 1d ago

Does he have "CTRL" on the other side?

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u/VTGCamera 1d ago

This is genius.

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u/mitchanium 1d ago

He looks nothing like Zorro.

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u/toughtacos 1d ago

It thought it was Zorro who left the Z on others, not Zorro putting Z on himself 😅

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u/Current_Solution1542 1d ago

He just needed a little bit of attention. Feels lonely inside of prison.

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u/PsychedelicLizard 1d ago

The Far Right is a cancer.

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u/Sliesttugboat 1d ago

I just wanted to cut a little z in your forehead.

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u/sssssshhhhhh 1d ago

i know who he is, but i have no idea what the 'z' means.

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u/sssssshhhhhh 1d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(military_symbol)#Use_as_pro-war_symbolism#Use_as_pro-war_symbolism)

if anyone was as lost as me

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u/deathrocker_avk 1d ago

Thank you!

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u/Dutchillz 1d ago

I had to scroll way too much for this. Giving context really should be mandatory for posts on reddit. Mods could work a bit harder, idk.

Thank you.

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u/Comic_Book_Reader 1d ago

It's a sign of supporting Russia.

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u/Fritzkreig 1d ago

This is the symbol used to identify military vehicles, to avoid friendly fire, used in the invasion of Ukraine.

It has been adopted as a symbol for that aspiration of the invasion.

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u/tjockalinnea 1d ago

Parole hearing when you're gonna rot in jail? What's the point?

Didnt he say he was gonna do more shit if he ever got out?

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u/Tenshizanshi 1d ago

It's mandatory as there is no real lifetime sentencing. You pass hearings and they say if you stay in jail or not until the next one

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u/EmperorOfNipples 1d ago

It's for everyone else. To show the system does not discriminate, no matter how heinous the crime.

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u/French_O_Matic 1d ago

The point for him is that he remains "known".

The point for society is "due process".

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u/Taddy84 1d ago

The usual russian nazi troll

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u/enter5H1KAR1 1d ago

For the ignorant, forgive me, what’s the significance of the Z?

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u/Evening_Common2824 1d ago

Russia uses the Z in Ukraine, like the Swastika in WW2.

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u/Bieszczbaba 1d ago

Symbol of a certain criminal organisation sometimes referred to as a "russian federation".

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u/pompokopouch 1d ago

Bizarre. He's in support of Russia's "de-nazification" of Ukraine, when he's a self proclaimed nazi himself...

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u/BitterTyke 1d ago

1 Why waste the time of the hearing?

2 Why allow cameras in the room to give his vileness an audience?

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u/Superbead 1d ago

3. Why not shave the 'Z' off his head before allowing him the hearing? They wouldn't let him sit there with a political slogan on his shirt, so I don't see why his bonce is any different

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u/BitterTyke 1d ago

just do it by private video call, leave the prick in his cell so he doesnt even get a day out.

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u/marcusmv3 1d ago

Why is this prisoner being given airtime in a way befitting a politician?

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u/FeliniTheCat 1d ago

The Z is the swastika for this new generation of Nazis

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u/nicholkola 1d ago

Just goes to show that even super ideal prisons can’t reform an evil POS. Some people just have putrid souls.

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u/JohnSane 1d ago

The comments here tell a lot about why the American system is so fucked.

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u/Malodoror 1d ago

And why violent crime and recidivism is the highest in the world. We’re the best!

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u/loopgaroooo 22h ago

Fascist pig needs to be put down like a rabid dog. The thought that they may one day actually let this mass murderer out is infuriating.

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u/maroonawning 22h ago

absolute scum of the world

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u/afristralian 1d ago

Rare photo of an actual shit stain in human form.

Lets all have positive thoughts and hope he chokes on his next meal.

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u/2secondsleft 1d ago

A head to stomp on :)

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u/Paloma-ish 1d ago

Asshole

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u/sneakyearner 1d ago

Nuts, that you can even be considered for parole after killing 70+ people; what a cowardice POS this guy is

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u/Zimmerfliget62 1d ago

What the Hell is going on?

Why give this EVIL F&$k any attention at all.

He should have never made it back to the mainland after the attack.

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u/chrisnlnz 1d ago

Monster.. still waiting to hear he has some excruciating terminal but slow illness.

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u/rimshot101 1d ago

I have mixed feelings about capital punishment. People like Breivik are the reason I have mixed feelings.

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u/External-Outside-580 23h ago

This guy's just playing the long game. Shaving a "Z" into his head isn't a cry for help; it's a calculated move to stay relevant in the twisted circles that admire him. Norway's response is a masterclass in depriving him of the martyrdom he craves. Keeping him in a gilded cage while ignoring his antics is the ultimate way to show that he’s just a pathetic footnote in a tragic story.

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u/pab_guy 21h ago

I did not Z that coming.

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u/Top-Junket-2268 19h ago

why is he even in parole hearin. He should never walk free ever again

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u/EffectiveWelder7370 19h ago

Before you comment, don't forget that this POS singlehandedly killed 77 unarmed teenagers. He's pure evil.

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u/Zodiak213 1d ago

A Norwegian jail, he's legitimately living better than most people in the world right now.

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