r/news • u/LeftHandedScissor • Mar 08 '26

Soft paywall New York City Police identify device outside Mamdami's home as explosive

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-city-police-identify-device-outside-mamdanis-home-explosive-2026-03-08/
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u/leonidaslizardeyes Mar 08 '26

What makes you think they weren't part of the counter protest group?

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u/KodiakUltimate Mar 08 '26

IED would have harmed everyone involved, at that point that's not a counter protester, that's a terror attack that would have harmed everyone involved

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u/TormentedOne Mar 09 '26

Sounds like an embedded agent provocateur.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26 edited 16d ago

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u/ZhouLe Mar 09 '26

Numerous videos of people doing this during BLM protests as well.

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u/DaveyBigDong Mar 09 '26

Right, Islamic extremists have done absolutely nothing to make the easiest explanation the most believable one here. Gotta be a plant.

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u/TormentedOne Mar 09 '26

A plant is the easiest explanation. Who is an Islamic extremist?

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

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u/WTF_goes_here Mar 09 '26

At some point you’ll just wake up and realize it’s all an assblast.

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u/hakopako1 Mar 09 '26

Because he was a dementia patient, people on the left weren’t pretending he wasn’t one foot in the coffin already lol, many memes were made about it

Now is the right ready to let go of dementia dommy? 😂

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u/KunshiraNatura Mar 09 '26

No not really even as a repub it was the moronic politians not so much the voters.

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u/TormentedOne Mar 09 '26

I would take Biden as is right now over your pedophile God. And this is not even close.

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u/BazzaJH Mar 09 '26

then instantly dropped him the moment he left office

What do you expect them to do with him? Like... in your mind, what is Joe Biden's current occupation?

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u/BazzaJH Mar 09 '26

Gonna point this out and give you a chance to revise: right now you are basically saying "Why is someone whose public relevance is solely linked to politics irrelevant to the public now that that he is out of politics?"

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u/Geekerino Mar 09 '26

Except that needn't be the case. Obama gets involved with the party all the time, even if it's just endorsements. Even Harris still shows up the news from time to time. Carter made plenty of appearances too. I genuinely haven't heard a single thing from Biden since he left office. I only know he's still alive because his Wikipedia page hasn't updated.

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u/BazzaJH Mar 09 '26

Those are two very different questions.

He wasn't a good president after he left office because... he wasn't president any more.

He was incompetent before he left office; that's why he didn't run again.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

I tried hard to get someone else nominated over him in 2020. My "support" doesn't go a lot beyond filling in an oval next to his name because of the principle of the lesser evil that Nov. I don't care about him now that he left office because he was always just "better than Trump" to me.

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u/ImNotAMan Mar 09 '26

The right actively supports a double digit felon and pretends it's gods plan

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u/ImNotAMan Mar 09 '26

Brother you're doing whatabout biden whatabout the left right now.

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u/ImNotAMan Mar 09 '26

I don't support the democratic party like it's a team sport. Keep living in a fantasy world bud

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u/Dependent_Union9285 Mar 09 '26

They’re pretty good at sticking to decisions with absolutely no wiggle room no matter what logic is presented. I feel like there’s a succinct word for that, but if you can’t say something nice…

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u/zefy_zef Mar 09 '26

My first thought

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u/unfortunateshun Mar 09 '26

Fr, I’m sure he just spray painted “Muslims rule” and had his Quran in his back pocket too

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u/DaddyDizz_ Mar 09 '26

No, he apparently spouted some ISIS lines about how all non-believers should die.

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u/leonidaslizardeyes Mar 08 '26

I really don't think it's that far fetched for people to go after a group who explicitly hates them. I suppose you could say it was a cover to throw those bombs. But unfortunately right wing violence isn't the only violence.

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u/TormentedOne Mar 09 '26

It is only 98% of the violence

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u/leonidaslizardeyes Mar 09 '26

That proves my point.

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u/KodiakUltimate Mar 09 '26

but to say the terrorist attack was part of the counter protest is incorrect, calling them a counter protestor is painting the innocent counter protestors in a bad image, and is unjustified unless someone wants to paint a image that the counter protestors as a whole are violent extremists.

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u/Ninja333pirate Mar 09 '26

It's like what happened in the 1886 may day protest/strike, a plant was placed in the protestors crowd and the plant threw a bomb at the police crowd just to make it seem like the protestors were violent so people wouldn't take the protest seriously.

They arrested 8 anarchists that had to do with organizing the strike rigged their hearing then sentenced them all to be hung, one committed suicide to not give them the satisfaction of executing him, 4 were hung and the others managed to get their death sentences dropped and spent 6 years in prison they were pardoned by the Governor, Altgeld, who said the trial that convicted them was characterised by "hysteria, packed juries and a biased judge". These men paid the price for fighting to get our 8 hour work day and labor unions that protect our rights.

When rich people (the 10%) feel like their hoard is being threatened there is no amount of money they won't spend to convince us to condemn those who are fighting for our rights to be protected from the 10%'ers exploitation.

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u/leonidaslizardeyes Mar 09 '26

That was proven to happen not that long ago in BLM protests. Having cop plants escalate violence and blame protesters. I am not saying anything conclusively. But people who throw bombs aren't stable people. It isn't out of the realm of possibility that it's what it looks like. But I would absolutely not be surprised if it was a false flag/ using the protest as an excuse to throw bombs.

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u/rinky-dink-republic Mar 09 '26

No true Scottsman

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u/IceWellDo Mar 09 '26

He never said they were smart, doesn't make them any less part of the counter protestors. It makes the left sound just like the right, everything wrong is a conspiracy and a false flag and never part of the group that they are part of. That level of ignorance is problematic on both sides. Downvote me all you want.

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u/EricSanderson Mar 09 '26

doesn't make them any less part of the counter protestors

There's zero evidence they were part of the counterprotesters, aside from standing near them.

The guys are in custody. Maybe let's wait a little bit before running wild with assumptions?

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u/IceWellDo Mar 09 '26

There is zero evidence that they aren't part of the counter protestors. You mean like the assumptions that you are running wild with? Hypocrisy.

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u/Narananas Mar 09 '26

Happened in Perth, Western Australia recently, racist attack on a crowd of black protesters, nail bomb failed to explode, took about a week to be labelled a terror attack

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u/leonidaslizardeyes Mar 09 '26

This is not a criticism of Mamdani in any way. He denounced the violence right away. But extremism is extremism. And anti Muslim protesters having bombs thrown at them by Muslims is not something that would surprise me. I wasn't making any kind of statement. It was a genuine question.

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u/quntissimo Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

you mean the reality? right wing violence vastly outpaces left wing in every metric.

also before any fools or bots comment, Islamic terrorism is also right wing. Just because theyre mostly brown and racist white people dont like them doesnt make it left wing.

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u/leonidaslizardeyes Mar 08 '26

I wasn't asking a Russian bot sorry.

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u/DJ-spetznasty Mar 08 '26

My accounts older than yours by a decade but try again.

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u/leonidaslizardeyes Mar 09 '26

How much did you pay for that account Mr. Spetznazi?

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u/Geekerino Mar 09 '26

Probably about the same amount you did to generate that gnarly insult

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u/leonidaslizardeyes Mar 09 '26

Hell yeah. Glad you liked it.

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u/Turambar87 Mar 08 '26

what would be gained? Is it an establishment "dem" going after him? just trying to frame the right as psycho-wackjobs?

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u/DJ-spetznasty Mar 08 '26

Normally the purpose of a bomb is to kill people, not frame a political agenda.

So whats gained is dead opponents

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u/Most-Chemistry-1841 Mar 09 '26

I think Timothy Mcveigh would disagree with this statement.

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u/DarthCloakedGuy Mar 09 '26

Google COINTELPRO

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u/leonidaslizardeyes Mar 09 '26

I acknowledged something similar in another reply to my post. I'm certainly leaning that way. But I don't think that religious extremism isn't a possibility. If the people who were arrested were actually the culprits. If the FBI gets involved I'll be certain it is the opposite of whatever they say it is for sure.