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    Timeshredder
    JD
    Timeshredder

    Have you ever read the source material? The sad thing is that Yunioshi is an actual, non-stereotyped character who serves a purpose in the story. The movie people, in 1961. read it and said, yeah, let’s just dispense with that and have Mickey Rooney do an embarrassing racist stereotype.

    This is the thing. The internet is brimming with conspiracy theories, many quite outlandish. But none of these need to be true for this to be conspiracy. One frightened, implicated, sufficiently wealthy individual could suborn the guards. You could find evidence this was murder and the possibilities would be endless.

    The thing is, while we have people online blaming Grand Cabals, none of those things would have to be true for this to be a conspiracy. It is a conspiracy if one scared, corrupt person bribed some guards. If this wasn’t suicide, the possibilities are still endless.

    That was my first thought when I read this.

    There’s one getting traction online! Hell, it’s not even a hit. Apparently, they substituted a lookalike corpse and spirited him away, and now have his blackmail dossier. My references for this are anonymous sources online and speculative posts by people who can’t possibly know anything more about it than I do, so,

    I don’t want to go there either, because, you know, he could have actually committed suicide.

    Did you read the guy’s website?

    Hey, why is there a picture of Betty...

    “9- UN Ambassador Kim Kardashia”

    For what it’s worth, here’s the perpeetrator:

    Murphy Brown, dammit. It’s Murphy Brown’s fault.

    Its like she just took a bunch of random bigotry and made her own little bigot hot dog and it became that FB post.

    Holy Toledo!

    I have already seen at least three separate conspiracy theories along these lines.

    t’s tough to find the theoretical non-racist Trump voters though, because they hide, much like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.

    Will they be staying in properties owned by Jared Kushner, then?

    See, I was imagining an entire 13% of the African-American population calling him all at once, from a collective phone of some sort.

    “And really, isn’t it just a harmless trend?

    I keep running across this guy’s work online and I’m waiting for when he reveals himself to be an ironic performance artist.