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Why does it have to make sense? kids (and a 21 year-old is certainly not a full-grown adult) do stupid things all the time.

For example, as James Zhong claimed[0]:

>He recalled converting some of his Bitcoin into $700,000 in cash. He stated he did this so that he would have a “case full of money like in the movies.” He hoped the visual appeal of the cash would impress a female into having sexual relations with him. He stated his plan did not work.

Maybe this kid did it to impress his Discord buddies? Maybe he did it for shits & giggles. Presumably, we'll find out more as time goes by.

>despite being Portuguese (based on his last name)

My last name is English, but I'm not from England. I was born in the US, the child of an American citizen too. How could that possibly happen?

I've met at least half a dozen native-born Americans with the name 'Teixeira'. Why do you assume he's a foreign national? By that logic, this guy[1] must be a "furriner" too, eh?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35549013

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Teixeira

Your link is a about a bitcoin case, so unless I missed something this guy wasn't doing it for money (I don't condone it, but money is a reasonable motive for committing a crime).

And I said based on his last name he doesn't appear to be ethnically Russian. Why are you going on about foreign nationals?

>Your link is a about a bitcoin case, so unless I missed something this guy wasn't doing it for money (I don't condone it, but money is a reasonable motive for committing a crime).

My point was that they were both kids when they did these stupid things (with Zhong, I'm not talking about stealing bitcoin -- he thought that it would "cool" to have a suitcase full of cash and that it might impress some college coed to fuck him -- hell I even quoted it for you).

Besides, What does your assessment as to what's reasonable have to do with what Jack Teixeira thought was a good idea?

>And I said based on his last name he doesn't appear to be ethnically Russian. Why are you going on about foreign nationals?

Because it's pretty obvious this guy isn't a spook/source for any foreign government. Which was implied by your noting the source of his last name?

And even if he was a spy for Russia or Brazil or Portugal or Grand Fenwick, for that matter, what does his name have to do with it?

why would it matter whether his name is 'Teixeira' or 'Smith' or 'Brin' or 'Nahasaheemapetalan'?

Actual spies like Whittaker Chambers[0] and Alger Hiss[1] didn't have "russian" names. Please.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_Chambers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss

Edit: Fixed tense as to Hiss'/Chambers' names -- as they're both dead.

> suitcase full of cash and that it might impress some college coed to fuck

I think the sex in that story is a red herring. If you have a suitcase full of 700 grand you don't need to impressive anyone to have sex. If you have a bunch of illicit bitcoins converting that into cash also makes sense without bringing sex into it. Money makes sense as a motive.

> What does your assessment as to what's reasonable have to do with what Jack Teixeira thought was a good idea?

A crime like this needs a motive.

> this guy isn't a spook/source for any foreign government

We're on the same page. What I'm saying is if this guy was a spook the story would start to make sense. But it doesn't look like he is.

> what does his name have to do with it?

I'll go out on a limb and say the average person who's last name is Putin has more loyalty to the Russian government than someone who's last name is Teixeira.

> Actual spies [...] didn't have "russian" names

It's funny. In a parallel thread I'm being accused of thinking Cold War spy stories are real, and here's two men whose entire Wikipedia articles read like spy thrillers.

I'm not checking if this guy is a spy, just that some sort of evidence of Russian sympathies would make this all easier to swallow.

>I think the sex in that story is a red herring.

I think stuff too, sometimes. Does it hurt when you do that? It definitely does when I do.

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