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Cellphone records showed that two days before the purported attack, her co-conspirator searched online for “zip ties near me,”
Oh come on
This is some really extreme kink shit and the political angle was an excuse to go through with it, right?
The Daily Beast article on the incident says "A search of Greene’s phone revealed her Reddit profile that included “followed communities” for “bodymods” and “scarification.”". Speculation here, but following the communities instead of just looking up places to get them done suggests that they're actually interested in those scenes. My money is on underlying kink.
There's got to be some element of that, because there's "desperate grifter trying to get attention" level stunts, and there's "pay hundreds of dollars to a professional to carve you up, then have your friend zip tie you in the woods" on a whole different level. Like I assume if this was some sort of mental health crisis getting channeled into a frantic political grift the wounds would have been self-inflicted and the whole thing would have been way more impulsive instead of just incompetent, but this shows a lot of planning plus the capacity to just sit still and let someone slice her up like that.
At the same time, that's an extreme first step for a masochist to take. It almost scans as something like sub frenzy, where someone who's just starting out gets increasingly obsessed with a fantasy that they lack the experience and context to even understand and potentially engages in very risky behavior or ignores red flags, diving in too deep too fast. Like the idea of it was exciting and became an unhealthy obsession that was then channeled into trying to grift off it too.
knifeplay and a blood kink certainly. i too had a fun time explaining contusions on my wrists i gotchu, queen 
use your persecution complex to elevate your brand profile!
anyway, i assumed it would be a few simulated cuts but damn the photos at the end show she was really going for broke. what a horror show.
maserati SUV, $200k unsecured bond, and rutgers law all says "rich family" to me, but i don't even know if there even exists cosmetic surgery to mitigate some of that.
i don't even know where to go with the motivation for this level of self mutilation. like self-flaggelation from religious excitation for the trump cult?
maserati SUV, $200k unsecured bond, and rutgers law all says “rich family” to me
That and more.
The premeditated scarification design includes part of the head and ear, not things which are easy to hide, and quite frankly the operational discipline of this hoax is embarrassing, in contrast to the sheer dedication and the extent of the hoax itself. Plus the Daily Beast article mentions they'd subscribed to body modification and scarification communities, so I agree with @Blakey and others that this seems like a rationale (I use that term very loosely) to express an underlying harm kink.
yeah, that contrast is legit wild. like if there was any part of this hoax i would half ass, it would be the actual self-mutilation & permanent disfigurement and not the part where i cover my tracks.
Unsecured bond means that she didn't need to pay any money, if I understand it correctly.
Yep, only has to pay if she skips her court date(s).
dog what the fuck
How do you go from not owning zip ties straight to this?
Wanna know how I got these scars?
If anyone's on the fence about clicking through to the images, they're worse than you're expecting.
How does somebody get to the point of thinking this sort of thing is necessary when their side is actually winning? I wanted to make a comparison to the winning team in American football doing a Hail Mary but that doesn't leave lifelong marks on the bodies of anyone involved.
I'm doubting she had a happy childhood.
How does somebody get to the point of thinking this sort of thing is necessary when their side is actually winning?
Chuds think that every major city in the country burned down in 2020 and that there are no-go zones where antifa will abduct and kill white suburbanites. They don't live in reality, so they don't know they're winning.
Persecution complex and propaganda. And potential to grift hundreds and thousands from chuds
Even hundreds of thousands would be iffy as a motivation. She was a conventionally attractive law student who now has to hope that it comes down to who was the most committed in 2025 without actually being committed to an inpatient facility.
I’m thinking, Kerri Strug doing her second cault routine but instead of needing to in order to win gold, the team already had enough points for the gold medal and she did it anyways.
Complete with risking aggravated injury
im thinking shes a rich white girl that had a very happy child hood and a very easy life all of which lead up to this moment
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What the actual fuck lol.
Literally some kind of Meadow Soprano-esque scheme.
Meadow at least joined the ACLU and then just yelled at Tony till he gave her money
Does anyone have an explanation how none of the cuts or marker are visible on the photo where they found her hog-tied on the ground?
The scarification is on her front right, not visible in any of the photos really
She tried to pull a Smollett. Why can't these people learn?