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Navy SEAL who claimed to kill Bin Laden arrested in Texas

www.aol.com Navy SEAL who claimed to kill Bin Laden arrested in Texas

Robert J. O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL who claimed to be the one who killed Usama bin Laden, was arrested in Texas on misdemeanor assault and public intoxication.

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30 years after I get my first AOL disk, reddit cancels itself and I'm back getting news about Osama's killer from AOL.
- I used to take handfuls of those discs from blockbuster and use them as frisbees in my living room
Today I learned AOL still exists.
- Most people forgot about them shortly after they stopped making free frisbees.
  
  I still have AOL 3.5 inch floppies as mementos.
  
  Also some of us cheap-asses would tape over the write-protect hole and use them as free floppy disks.
  
  I collected hundreds and glued them to my ceiling to make a disco mirror. It was epic lol
- Wait till you learn about Netscape
  
  I learned about my first hurricane of 2023 from Netscape 🤨
- Yahoo, too, is still out there and pumping out news stories and such.
  
  When I want to check on if something is running off cache or a live connection, I go to yahoo.com.
  
  No one goes to yahoo.com Its never cached.
  
  Yahoo is aol now, isn't it? Or aol is yahoo?
This guy probably has so much PTSD and so much yearning for the adrenaline that war provided him.

The Man who Killed Osama Bin Laden... is Screwed (Esquire)

"I'm not religious, but I always felt I was put on the earth to do something specific. After that mission, I knew what it was."

Of course this guy is a violent drunk and a conservative! This country has treated him like SHIT.

"No one who fights for this country overseas should ever have to fight for a job," Barack Obama said last Veterans' Day (2012)

After sixteen years in the Navy, his body filled with scar tissue, arthritis . . . he gets from his employer and a grateful nation:

Nothing. No pension, no healthcare for his wife and kids, no protection for himself or his family.

He's taken that as a calling - and become yet another angry conservative grifter. Speaking engagements, media appearances, tweeting hateful bullshit for attention. Since claiming he was The Shooter (of Osama) he's claimed to have been a key member in other SEAL missions that have been made into movies. Who knows the truth? Nobody is allowed to correct him, and that's why he can build this brand for himself.

His shit stirring is always newsworthy and pushed in front of us. Anti-mask shit, transphobic shit. So I'm happy we can see his miserable personal failures, too.
I mean to be fair assault and public intox are about what i'd expect out of most military vets. It isn't like the VA's giving them good mental health assistance after they return home.
- Most?
  
  There are many traumatized combat troops out there, but most find help (despite the VA) and live lives out of the spotlight.
  
  And most of the military is just a huge interstate money laundering ring for big military contracting companies wasting our tax dollars.
  
  That said, mental health, pensions, and support systems by all measures need improving and we should all be pushing our congress to get off their asses and pay for it.
I just read the article. This guy seems like an asshole through and through.
- He was banned from Delta for refusing to wear a mask, and that became a brain rotting news story in 2020.
- Well, he is a SEAL...
  
  Because all SEALs are assholes?
- That was the sentiment about the dude shortly after the whole Bin Laden thing and more details about him as a person came to light.
I've noticed quite a bit of information posted from sources i don't really recognize. I usually try to find an AP article if i can since most outlets are just quoting them anyway.

Edit: people seem to think recognize = aware of. I don't recognize AOL as a news source.
- If you've never heard of aol.com, it's probably older than you are.
  
  Never heard of it, let me AskJeeves it
  
  I don't recognize AOL as a "news" outlet.
- Wait have you not heard about AOL??
  
  You've got male pattern baldness.
- https://ground.news/article/8e56e12e-7288-4ab4-ba1f-bc57aefe43ab
  
  Ground news bias page for this story
  
  https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2023/08/25/former-navy-seal-who-claimed-to-have-killed-osama-bin-laden-arrested-in-frisco/
  
  This is the likely source of the story
- Please tell me this is satire.
- Seriously... can we normalize posting the breaker / source of the story rather than rewarding these journalists who repost and reword it? Lemmy has a problem Reddit had but was never willing to fix - this board design rewards bad news sources and sensationalism.
  
  Original source would be great but I'm guessing it would be a hard ask.
I'm not a fashionista or anything, but someone should be arrested for the tailoring of that suit. Good God.
- Tailored like a fresh paper bag. I dunno man there's a weird trump ideation that made baggy ill fitting rack suits in vouge for a certain sect of people.
And he used the N-word. What a colossal shithead.

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