• GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    261 year ago

    Yknow, this was always a very real possibility since 2016, it’s kinda weird it hadn’t happened yet and it really should have been a contingency we always kept on the table. Catching this as a blindside is a bit embarrassing.

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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      31 year ago

      I really doubt anyone is going to be swayed by this either way. His base can’t love him any more and no lib is gonna suddenly sympathize with him (genuinely at least).

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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      I agree, but am I only the one distraught af about this? What are people in America going to do? The first thing fascism always does is eliminate the Communists and Socialists. Not like the US has done so far, make fun of them in the press and isolate them through media consent manufacturing, I mean really make sure that political philosophy is entirely extinct. They’re going to shut down these forums, arrest anyone to the left of Biden, ignore paramilitary death squads killing people in the streets, before moving on to the natural fascism scapegoats: shoot kids in Palestinian protests and call them terrorists, arrest LGBTQ people for being groomers, set black and women rights back to the 1600’s, shit like that. I know that happens a lot now but there are pockets where people can feel safe in this country. They’re going to use national power to override cities and states and eliminate those pockets.

      Fuck, this feels hopeless now. Even trading out Biden will not work anymore with that photo. I’d rather stay here where my support network is, but I feel like I’m going to have renew my passport and chance it in another country that I hope the US won’t invade, or buy a gun, and I really, really don’t want to have to fight a bunch of CHUDs. I want to relax in my apartment, hang out with friends, play games, and just live my life.

      The other thing I’m worried about is a fascist America stomping out communism around the world even more than it does. Cuba will get fucked by a full fascist America off its shores and China hasn’t been as internationally helpful as the USSR.

      • duderium [he/him]
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        They hit my ear, folks, they disfigured me. They disfigured my beautiful ear. But you know what? My resolve, folks, it’s never been stronger!

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    lmao was that a BB gun or something? he’s a showman so it’d be totally in character, the little triumphant fist pump photoshoot makes me lean towards false flag

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            i never said i know it’s a false flag, i said i was “leaning” towards it, i have no idea tbh. maybe trump wasn’t even aware of it and some chud or group organized it to put him ahead beyond a doubt

        • peeonyou [he/him]
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          221 year ago

          False flag killing spectators and hitting the main target just millimeters away from killing him? I mean… that’s a hell of a false flag

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            some sources are saying he was only injured by teleprompter or monitor glass fragments that broke, idk. secret service didn’t pick up on a fairly close guy on the rooftop?

  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    481 year ago

    My prediction is this was some sort of deranged liberal who thought they were really saving democracy liberalism

      • peeonyou [he/him]
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        61 year ago

        yeah, its surprising how many would rather just shoot up a school or a walmart instead… boggles the mind

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      91 year ago

      Least deranged liberal. If they think Trump is as big of a threat as they say, they should applaud the guy and emulate him.

    • @[email protected]
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      I really don’t think so. Liberal Democrats hate guns. And I don’t think it’s any kind of communist/anarchist/lefty/etc either because I think someone who’s serious enough to want to kill Trump would also be serious enough to have more important organising to do than a suicide mission trying to shoot trump at a trump rally. I think more likely it’s someone who doesn’t have particularly conventional/left-wing political motivations. Maybe someone who’s quite mentally ill or otherwise someone with quite out-there views.

      • Wakmrow [he/him]
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        11 year ago

        There’s an entire pretty active subreddit for liberal gun owners. Plenty of Americans have incoherent politics and access to firearms.

        My bet is a liberal who was starting to reject the appeasement of the Democrats.

        Any leftist is going to know enough history/politics that doing this alone will not succeed.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Being a liberal gun owner (and in any case a lot of the people on that subreddit didn’t seem like regular establishment dems to me but I’ve not gone on reddit for years) isn’t the same thing as going ahead with shooting trump though.

          Plenty of Americans have incoherent politics and access to firearms.

          That was what I was saying, it’s probably someone with unconventional politics or someone motivated by something other than just political views, like someone with a serious mental illness.

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        81 year ago

        That sounds about right honestly. Saw someone say it’d be a groyper who’s mad he supports Israel or some shit, and that scans with me.

        • @[email protected]
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          81 year ago

          That would be insane but also definitely the best case scenario for us. If that’s the case that news had better break out quick before this is used to justify further repression of the left.