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The Boogaloo crowd just got handed exactly what they needed to, in their minds, justify basically anything.

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Going for a kill shot on their God Emperor, and just nearly missing him but instead probably giving him the equivalent of a minor flesh wound, live on national television, is obviously going to provoke and embolden them more than anything before.

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Yep. This won him the election.

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Was he supposedly hit in the ear? If so, how did nobody behind him get hit? Given the angle they would have had to shoot from to miss everyone else, it seems like they would have had to be down in the crowd below and it should be obvious who did it.

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They were going to do that anyway, but nevertheless.

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This has immense rhetorical power in terms of amping up support. It makes it easier to recruit, justify, pursue goals, etc.

Put in in Hoi4 terms. If ‘political capital’ can be reasonably simplified into a score, a currency, this is ‘bank error in your favor, have a buttload of free points.’

…with which you can more easily pursue a wide variety of actions or policies.

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Nah, he’s still a fascist and when anyone reads up on Project 2025 is not going to change their mind about him over this.

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You’re absolutely right. However, they were going to find a reason regardless, since violence was always their end goal.

If it wasn’t this idiot it would have been something else: Trump losing the election is any easy one. The “Boogaloo crowd” resorting to violence was inevitable – the only thing that has changed is we can no longer pretend it’s tomorrow’s problem.

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I agree, its just that this makes it ludicrously easy for them to do that.

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It is the match being held to the fuse of the powder keg.

Today is going to be a chapter in the future textbook entitled, “The Fall of the American Empire.”

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You’re absolutely right. However, they were going to find a reason regardless, since violence was always their end goal.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant - Aesop

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