I don’t have any additional insight into or commentary to add, other than to note that it’s wild to start making investigations some 30 years after the event.

Alternative sources:

The Telegraph

The BBC

The Independent

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    This has been a well known fact. They did pay Serbian paramilitary groups well to just do it. I don’t know why this made it to the news now? And if you want something worse

    Just think about what happened to the missing kids during the war.

    Think about what happened to thousands of missing kids during Syria-Turkey earthquake in 2023 (an interesting event: a missing earthquake victim kid from Turkey was found by the Dutch police wandering in a random square in Netherlands in 2024… How did the kid go there? How many others are kidnapped?)

    Think about what kind of stuff was happening in and after 2003 in Iraq?

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    Wild how I came up with something like this for my worldbuilding to represent fucked up white colonialist motherfuckers and lo-and-behold the real world manages to outdo you in the fucked up department. Again.

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    “There were Germans, French, English … people from all Western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians,” said Ezio Gavazzeni, the investigative writer.

    “There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.”

    Just when I thought I couldn’t hate the west enough

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      Safari tourism is so deeply linked with european colonialism and racism, so this isnt surprising. Idk why people even on the left imagine a humanity into the western elites, which isnt present. I assume its people who havent deprogrammed their liberalism.

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      I’m reminded of when I read someone say that white lions were hunted to extinction in (Algeria? Can’t recall the specific African country), implying the citizens had wiped them out; I googled the country and the year the white lion went extinct and surprise surprise, it was under French occupation and it was the French who’d hunted them to extinction (apparently with other species too).

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    It’s wild to start making investigations some 30 years after.

    My conspiracy brain. Some of the people that might have literally pulled the trigger were so rich and powerful that the UN, etc dismissed any mention of sniper tourists as ridiculous tabloid-level rumor even though there were clear grounds to investigate.

    -–

    In all seriousness - how did this news not break decades ago? Also - begin the countdown clock for breaking news that Hollywood is making Sniper Tourists - a movie based on real events.

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      It isn’t a conspiracy. Rich people have been doing crazy evil shit and keeping it out of the news since there have been rich people. They have always owned the news which is why consistent narratives didn’t start breaking down until the dawn of widespread internet use.

      Perfect example: Look into the Vegas mass shooting.

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          It’s wild how the way the word “conspiracy” got devalued from being “there is a criminal agreement to do crimes happening behind closed doors” to sit alongside “yall heard the aliens working with bigfoot to sap and impurify your precious bodily fluids for Ivan?” was a literal conspiracy by the CIA to boost crank shit in the counterculture and delegitimize any talk of the actual crimes the feds were actually, more or less openly, doing.

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        I don’t know about the vegas shooting as it relates to rich people doing crazy evil shit and suppressing it from the news. Can you say more and/or point me to resources pls? Thanks

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      My conspiracy brain. Some of the people that might have literally pulled the trigger were so rich and powerful that the UN, etc dismissed any mention of sniper tourists as ridiculous tabloid-level rumor even though there were clear grounds to investigate.

      I recall a video Bad Empanada did that talked primarily about Gaza but brought up the Bosnian genocide; he mentioned that Clinton knew there was a genocide for years, but the French government at the time wanted it to continue because they viewed a muslim country in Europe as an abomination. It stands to reason the UN dismissed it because the victims were muslim and they didn’t care, or simply didn’t see the perpetrators as criminals, or even that since the perpetrators were other Westerners that it looked bad and so decided to be quiet about it.

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      begin the countdown clock for breaking news that Hollywood is making Sniper Tourists - a movie based on real events.

      Bacurau (2019) is a Brazillian movie about rich tourists trying to wipe a rural town off the map for sport. It was a great movie and I would recommend it.

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        Controversy breaks out when DiCaprio yells at the director and producers - “My leading lady will not be over 30!” The director and producers are more than pleased. This is exactly what they hoped would happen so their shitty movie would get tons of free media.

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    Before the Gaza genocide this would have shook me to my core, but the Gaza genocide already did that. Seeing things like this and the Gaza genocide really makes me think humanity is kinda fucked. Capitalism was able to run for way too long and the worst people ever got to do the worst shit ever because capitalism enables this demonic behavior

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    What gets me is that it’s such a benign amount of money. It’s like tangible and understandable. When I think of trophy hunting I think of people in 10 million dollar houses who have personal chefs spending mind numbing money to completely altar their reality. So I guess I expected something more disgusting to be more expensive in turn. It’s like if you had an anger problem and left it unaddressed until after you got a good tech job for a half a decade you could live out your American school system fantasy and then visit Italy in the same trip. It’s just like when politicians get bought off for <10k. What? Did you need to make ends meet on a new car?! What the fuck are you talking about?!

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    The top comment has an unnamed mention of a Charlie Fucking Kirk.

    Thousands of people cheered and celebrated publicly when a man was recently assassinated for his beliefs. Is it that big of a jump to think if they offered a pay per view of that happening to someone else they disagreed with, that even more would pay to watch? Hate, narcissism, and intolerance is a slippery slope.

    Not thousands, millions.

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    Have I told you all that pigs are my least favorite animal?

    Privilege breeds decadence and the decadent need to be thrown in conversion therapy camps to re-discipline them.

    Bacon is vegan.

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      I was friends with a pig for a little bit and he was mostly nice and chill, but he did fuck the yard up rooting in the dirt with his snout