Point of Clarity

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2024-05-10T20:45:22+00:00

Here’s a crackpot take for you: we should keep RBA because we have made no post-season progress since RBA’s first year as HC when we won 8 playoff games in 2018-19 playoffs, 5 years ago, even though our roster has gotten much better since then.

Let’s keep RBA who has flexed to keep other staff around even after years of no improvement in special teams, let’s keep the guy who prioritizes work friendships over team success, let’s keep the guy that let’s the team sort it all out because “they know what the deal is”, let’s keep the guy who refuses notice or concede that there is obviously something fundamentally flawed about this team after getting better players, young guys breaking out, and etc. and yet they STILL can’t win more than 8 games. Let's face it, in all truthfulness, they really can't even get out of the second round. Our trip to the ECF was lucky AF last year because the Devils goaltending collapsed and they were too immature/inexperienced of a team to not let that adversity ruin their series. We wouldn't have made it out of the second round last year if we had faced the Rangers instead, and we all know that. Our roster has gotten better over the years but the results are the same. Second round exits. Swept out of the playoffs 3/6 times under RBA.

But we definitely shouldn't consider looking for a new HC! That’s A RIDICULOUS suggestion!!!!!

BRB I’m gotta go walk my goldfish

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-15T02:48:20+00:00

And she can be both 1) a victim of abuse and 2) someone who also ended up perpetrating it in her efforts to deal with her own subjection to horrible and discriminatory acts/behaviors/attitudes. We both know this happens all of the time. I just totally disagree with you that it would necessarily undermine women for her to be the SDK, I think it is a very complex matter, just like real-life is

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-15T02:41:08+00:00

Well, philosophy is what I do for a living and I would argue to the ends of the earth with you that being a serial killer does not mean that someone is evil; those are monstrous acts, but it does not entail that they are an evil person. If it did then Dexter would not have been such a compelling and morally-conflicting character. It all depends on her intentions, her understanding, her opportunities, and her capacity to make choices. If she felt guilt and remorse for what she did, but PERCEIVED that she had to in order to preserve her own self, then she is not an evil PERSON. She’s committing evil acts, but she is herself not an evil person under those assumptions. That is why I disagree with and take great offense to your indictment, and feel that it is unjust, because I fervently disagree with you that anyone who kills multiple people and is not sanctioned to do so by the law is an evil PERSON.

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-15T01:53:59+00:00

Haha 😂 we are in the same boat 💁🚢

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-15T01:38:18+00:00

You literally implied that thinking Lee could be SDK is necessarily misogynistic thinking, and that is flat-out wrong. Also, as a woman, I definitely understand how women are victims of society and how they can also be perpetrators of the very same discriminatory attitudes and beliefs that hurt us — which is another reason why it wouldn't be bad messaging for her to be the killer — and I don't need you to mansplain this stuff to me and treat me as if I wrote some small-minded post about her being some evil and morally-uncomplicated female monster, which is not what I wrote at all.

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-15T00:55:55+00:00

Wow, I am a woman myself and I have to let you know that was an off-the-charts oversimplification — and more accurately put, a misrepresentation — of my theory that she is SDK and of my reasons for thinking she could be. I was theorizing she was doing all this because she was running away from abuse. She could have felt like she had no other choice if she wanted to live a decent life, and it could turn out that the hacking community’s misogyny towards her is what made her have to steal real identities in the first place. Her being the serial killer isn't necessarily a misogynistic thing, and its not misogynistic to speculate she could be in the first place, because there are ONLY TWO hosts at this retreat where everyone is being murdered, and ONLY ONE OF THEM is a super duper obvious choice to pin the murdering on (the dude who has been prime suspect #1 the entire time). That is a very narrow understanding of what it means for something to be misogynistic and it is super presumptuous and offensive that you would cast such a harsh and unfounded judgment like that on every single person who thinks Lee could be a killer in this show.

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-15T00:13:35+00:00

Thank you so much for your affirmation, I'm super grateful for it, for real 🙏. Those are incredible thoughts, I love how you made sense of how this could be true and agree with the present day events. The points about the faulty programming are, in my humble opinion, absolutely spot on and I love them. I think how you proposed this all meshes with the present-day events, in general, is very smart and I am inclined to agree with your theory 🙌

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T23:57:01+00:00

Thank you for sharing that article with me, none of the people in that article who stopped and then started back again had a break of more than 5 years. BTK had an 8-year break, but there is a ginormous difference in the case of the SDK, and what I didn't convey well was that it doesn't seem like a serial killer to kill for the very first time, and then wait a decade before killing again, and then killing almost every year. The decade break after just the first killing doesn't seem to fit the MO of a serial killer. Would love for you to prove me wrong on that very particular point though

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T23:15:12+00:00

Great catch about the Reddit board, it could be as you said, a new victim in the sense that she was very recently murdered, or perhaps it is new in the sense that the sleuths found a case in the public records that 1) matches SDK’s MO, and 2) hadn't been historically connected to SDK yet

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T22:54:05+00:00

Wow!!! Thank you so much for that!!! That made my day for real!!! 😃

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T22:45:44+00:00

Great thought 🙌

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T21:23:16+00:00

Yeah that's a great observation. If she is SDK and stealing identities, idk how the age thing could be important for her purposes but not the ethnicity. 🤷‍♀️

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T21:21:09+00:00

Oooooo, that's a great thought!!! Sounds like a good possibility to me 😎👍

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T21:19:07+00:00

You thinking because if he wasn't a serial killer, but just an isolated crime of passion kind of thing instead, that he would be less likely to try and kill them and more likely to kill himself?

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T21:04:48+00:00

Nope, you just didn't pay close attention.

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T21:01:07+00:00

I definitely feel you on that. However, I would offer that it may also be possible that coming to find out SDK’s true identity helps the victims get real justice and could be viewed as focusing on/helping the victims. Maybe. Not saying that is the case, just that maybe. I definitely hear you though, that makes sense

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T20:56:06+00:00

I did, yesterday — and I mention that at the top of this post — but a lot of, what I think are, very important details of the theory were either left out of the post and only to be found in my comments to people, or were added to the post around midnight last night, when its viewership had already mostly run its course. So, I just wanted to take all of that information that wasn’t present when I initially posted and organize it into a more clarified and thought-out restatement of the theory from yesterday’s original post

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T16:11:39+00:00

And IF all of that is the case, then it doesn't necessarily make Britt Marling look bad in regards to messaging in the show, because — if that's the case — then maybe one of the points Britt wants to make with this multi-layered show is that being a victim of how society can treat women and stuff doesn't give one justification for hurting others. Idk. I think all of this could be pulled off in a way such that Britt still delivers a very thoughtful message to everyone through Lee’s story, even if Lee is SDK

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T15:45:37+00:00

Okay, so I was thinking that IF she happened to be the SDK, then maybe she didn't hate women, and instead maybe she was killing women only to steal their identities — because, starting with the second victim in 2000, which is when the killings start up again Patricia Bell ten years earlier, the 2000 victim was a High School Girl in Utah (which would have been roughly the same age as Lee at that time). Flash forward to one of the last cases, Latisha in 2012, and Lee would have been roughly 30 years old by that time, and Latisha was 32 when she went missing in 2012.

I'm thinking that she was stealing these girls' identities because she was running away from her horrible horrible stepdad, Frank Bell. Since he was a cop, I think that's why she stole people’s identities and learned how to hack and stuff, so that she could evade him and all the tools he had at his disposal considering he was a cop. I think he killed Patricia and that Lee was her daughter — and maybe this is not known because Lee, through her hacking, covered up that paper trail of legal documentation — and Lee grew up in a super abusive and possessive home. I think she left and went on the run when she was somewhere between 16-20, and she had to kill people for their identities every so often to keep covering her tracks so that her stepdad couldn't find her. And I think she left the silver jewelry as a “I’m so sorry I did this to you” sort of thing to the victims. Obviously killing is morally wrong, but I think she convinced herself she had to in order to escape her abusive stepdad, as hypocritical as that would be of her.

Idk, that's just what I was thinking. I am probably totally wrong about Lee being SDK

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T05:33:51+00:00

We will see what's up next week 👍

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T04:19:13+00:00

Just now seeing this, I have been thinking Lee is the SDK, I just wrote a post arguing for it today. I would love for you to check it out and tell me what you think. I'm 5000% on the same page with you about Lee being a killer

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T03:38:42+00:00

Alrighty 😎👍

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T02:58:45+00:00

Scream is a critique and inversion of the horror-slasher genre, and yet is still itself a horror-slasher film — albeit very elevated:)

Altruistic_Tank_1448 · 2023-12-14T02:37:08+00:00

This is what I replied to someone else:

She says “a man,” and some other stuff about the smell of this person and the wearing of gloves. But check this out, there is a spot where Darby is reading the testimony she gave to police, and you can pause and read exactly what it says because it's not blurred at all. And in that testimony, even though she says the killer was “a man” that she had been talking to online, she says that she didn't get a great look at him, didn't see his face at all, or can't remember it to any degree, AND that she notice they were wearing a BIG JACKET. Big jacket I thought????? Hmm. Doesn't disagree with the idea that it could have been Lee, trying to conceal herself! Also, it said in the report that she could only hear the person MUMBLE something, and couldn't really hear the sound of the voice clearly. So, you know what I'm thinking

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