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Same reason mafia bosses did barrel murders [1] or a mafia state would defenestrate inconvenient journalists [2]. To make it obvious who did it while still mai
by panarky 6y ago
Same reason mafia bosses did barrel murders [1] or a mafia state would defenestrate inconvenient journalists [2].
To make it obvious who did it while still maintaining a thin facade of deniability.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_murder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_murder
[2] https://www.npr.org/2018/04/21/604497554/why-do-russian-journalists-keep-falling https://www.npr.org/2018/04/21/604497554/why-do-russian-jour...
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoWhat a rabbit hole. I had no idea that one of the largest mass lynchings in the USA was because the mafia assassinated a police chief: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14,_1891_New_Orleans_lynchings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14,_1891_New_Orleans_lyn...
- dTal 6y agoDid you read till the end? It's not at all clear that it was a mafia hit. The whole thing was clearly stoked by a huge anti-immigration feeling. As you say, quite the rabbit hole...
- dkarp 6y agoI had no idea there was a word for throwing someone out of a window! Thanks for teaching me defenestrate. Now I need to find a sentence I can slip that into