[Zhang Fei]

[How much training did he did to feed peas to senile people?]

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How much training did Kaczynski need to become a hermit? The guy was a mathematician, just about the most theoretical egghead thing you can be, taught himself to build these bombs from rudimentary materials you can get from any grocery store. And the kicker is he did it without maiming himself the way even expert homemade bomb builders do.

The thing about some smart people is that they are socially awkward, some in the extreme. But in carrying out what interests them, they are fearless, focused and relentless.

Note that all Crooks had to do was stay alive for the minute or so he shouldered the rifle. Until then, he was just a kid looking at the rally with a pair of binoculars, belatedly identified as a rangefinder - something common in exurbs like Butler, along with pocket knives and Gerber multitools.

Plenty of literal dictators have been killed in more controlled settings. Rich Hanania, who counts JD Vance as a friend, has an essay on how political assassinations used to be more common.

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-are-there-so-few-assassinations

Most of the ones who succeeded or came within striking distance had one thing in common - they were prepared to die trying.

[NWFree]

He was so smart even the spectators had his number crawling along llke a rat and he would have been shot dead if competent security had been in charge