• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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          That’s actually a very likely explanation. Provoke a violent response, declare martial law, then kill everyone whose nose they don’t like. Kristallnacht.

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            This is exactly why things are escalating. The entire country will be on fire before the midterms, which will then be cancelled.

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        TL;DR - Noem’s statement that he was involved in a similar incident last year may have contributed to his identification

        God that article was fucking awful. Paragraph after paragraph of fluff just to pad out a single sentence worth of content

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        Yeah. They release info that can be tied back to him, and someone searches the appraisal district records for a house under his name, and things get bad.

        Especially if he isn’t in appraisal district records (because he lives out of the county, or doesn’t own a home, or the house is under an LLC, etc), but someone else with the same name is in the records.

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      How did you find the middle name? From my inept search, I found a bunch of people name Jonathan Ross within the area of the incident, realising that the name is common.