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I’m guessing someone did 🔫🩸👂

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I’m guessing someone did 🔫🩸👂

Why was this comment removed? Can a mod explain?

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Nah false flag. It looks staged.

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Attendees died, and Trump is way too cowardly to fake this with actual ammunition. It’s real

EDIT: Mind, if you want to say it’s staged to rile up the right who keeps saying shootings are staged, then please, continue

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EDIT: Mind, if you want to say it’s staged to rile up the right who keeps saying shootings are staged, then please, continue

Fucking don’t. Spreading disinformation to “trigger the repubs” isn’t a productive strategy. Don’t stoop to their level.

If your narrative requires spreading lies, your narrative is garbage.

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Conservatives can call everything fake news and spreading misinformation is suddenly a problem when it happens to their own people? Tiniest violin.

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One attendee died. And the shooter is supposedly off site. Something doesn’t add up.

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21 points

Don’t be like the right. They claim everything is fake. We are better than that

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It’s a joke.

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I highly doubt that, staging something like this would be an insanely dangerous move, a slight miss from the shooter in such a scenario would be lethal, and given other people at the event seem to have been killed, it seems clear that lethal rounds were used. Trump may be a fan of ridiculous stunts, but he’s also pretty self interested; I do not think he would risk his own life for such a stunt.

I understand the impulse to not want someone one agrees with politically to have done something like try a political assassination, and then immediately leap to the idea that the notion that the event might help the intended victim’s political chances is just a bit too convenient and therefore must mean they orchestrated it, but it must be remembered that, whatever views one has, or groups one is in, or identities one holds, as long as they are not so obscure as to be shared by only a handful of people, it is statistically likely that there will be people who are on your team or side of group who are willing to do something like this given the chance, just by virtue of such people making up a fraction of the population.

Trump is hated by a lot of people, myself included and a large fraction of the people likely to be reading this too I’m sure. It is not at all unrealistic to imagine that someone hates him enough to try to kill him.

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The only reason I want this to be staged is because I want it to be exposed as a stunt. He fucking deserves this and I’m only sad he missed. Fuck. Donald. Trump.

I’d be celebrating if he hadn’t.

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The case, in my mind, for the false flag hypothesis is simple: he’s a blithering coward. If a serious attempt was made on his life, nothing about his prior behavior suggests he would be fist-pumping. His confidence betrays comfort. Further, he idolizes those who have used similar false flags. Maintaining composure in such an event is so remote a possibility, that the probability of an orchestrated scenario with foreknowledge, a common blood capsule, and collateral damage seems comparatively likely.

Not certain, of course, but probable enough for consideration. Certainly it’s far too early to draw concrete conclusions one way or another. However, if it were a false flag, how would it look differently?

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I highly doubt that, staging something like this would be an insanely dangerous move, a slight miss from the shooter in such a scenario would be lethal, and given other people at the event seem to have been killed, it seems clear that lethal rounds were used. Trump may be a fan of ridiculous stunts, but he’s also pretty self interested; I do not think he would risk his own life for such a stunt.

He’s mentally impaired from neurosyphilis by now. How can people believe he’s the only person making decisions there?

If someone else planned this, then him not dying means his popularity rising, him dying means him becoming a martyr and his side’s popularity rising.

I’m not claiming it happened this way or any specific way.

Just a very rare event to say something certainly, but this definitely changes the situation for a lot of money, if we express power in money. That means somebody could have made an effort of the same magnitude.

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given other people at the event seem to have been killed, it seems clear that lethal rounds were used.

I do not know whether the bystander who was killed was shot by the assassin or by the Secret Service. Do you?

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Has Trump ever made you think “that guy makes good choices”?

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He should have considered telling people about it during that debate on primetime national TV.

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I swear to God democratic PR personnelle is all Republican sleeper agents. They are so inept it’s maddening. Women lost their reproductive rights, Trump tried to overthrow our government. Biden should be just repeating these points over and over again.

Just like Republicans do when they find themselves an issue.

Stop trying to explain stuff to Americans, they are too stupid. Just hammer easy to understand points that are wrapped in emotion.

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I completely agree

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Yeah he could have mentioned that in the debate

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Americans need to get off the political extremism ride, it’s not a good fit for you guys. Go back to drinking milkshakes and talking too loud in Europe.

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Are you saying we don’t do those other things? We are perfectly capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time, thank you very much

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At least uhh… At least half of us probably are capable.

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And that’s all we need in a first past the post system!

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DID SOMEONE SAY MILKSHAKE?!?

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The answer to uniting the US was there all along.

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Well this election isn’t about reading anymore. It’s about who’s still alive on election day.

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