No mixed feelings.
I wish there was more wind.
I like wind.
Don’t you mean less wind?
not sure if information is reliable but someone who knew him talked about he is a bad shot, so more wind for the assist would help
Depends on direction
This Rhino must be talking to liberals.
Yes, and the Republicans who miss when their party wasn’t loony tunes.
Bah. They’re Republicans in name only.
So, basically liberals.
Oh yeah, that’s right, I keep forgetting this is fashion commy territory and they use liberal as a slur like Republicans do with no self-awareness
You’re on Lemmy, outside of explicitly anti-communist spaces like Lemmy.world you’re going to find more leftists.
Leftists referring to Liberals negatively is standard leftism, as Liberals support the Capitalist status quo and stand in the way of progress. The fact that Republicans are even further right than Liberals and use Lib as a slur for people less right wing does not mean leftists are without “self-awareness.”
You could read theory if you want to, plenty of people would be willing to share tips and pointers, then you wouldn’t have to rely on edgeless snark.
It’s the same picture.
Not mixed, the attempt does not improve or reduce make his ability to run the country. What it does however is increase his chances of winning.
Gives me Reagan and Hitler vibes.
That it does probably means that Americans deserve whatever lows their country will fall to.
Its disappointing. Good someone had the balls to actually try and show he is serious when he says the 2A is there to prevent fascism. Sad he failed.
I rather it never happened. But him surviving is the worst outcome.
Idk, I feel like him surviving is the better outcome. Republicans would have ridden the “Martyr” angle until the end of time. And while it would have been hard for the party to transfer his cult to someone else, it would happen eventually. Chances are, the person taking over would have been much smarter.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it if Trump died, but it has to be in a funny way that can’t be misconstrued as heroic. Make him fall down stairs lined with fart pillows. Have him chase an underage girl into a wall that has a tunnel painted on it. Put him in a comically unsafe submarine to check out the Titanic…
Without Trump, who do the republicans have? De Santis? Nah. Martyr means nothing if there’s no realistic second choice.
(Otherwise, the CIA wouldn’t have bothered assassinating political candidates in south America)
Not to mention numerous Black Panthers, civil rights leaders, many others killed. The state knows that assassination can work.
They are treating him like a martyr right now.
Yeah… Surviving that basically won him the election.
Yeah… Surviving that basically won him the election.
No if everyone making this assumption votes, rather than staying at home and assuming they’ve already lost. The left outnumber the right after all. Losing is a turnout issue.
Kinda crazy to think Biden can still pull this off. Furthermore, it happened in PA, a crucial state.
You could run a cabbage, but if everyone votes for them they’ve pulled it off. Voting is the difference between winning and losing.
Roughly my thoughts today: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/451/084/544/739/972/original/47d31a58ddc70f80.png
What happened? Did we discover another exo-planet?
Some guy tried to shoot Trump. Tried. However, bystander died and FBI killed the shooter.
FBI or secret service?
Secret service proved itself once again to be the most useless.
“What the fuck do you fucks even do?”
“It’s a secret”
FBI
Nearly.
No signs of intelligent life?
I’m getting a lot of Palpatine wannabe vibes from the left all of a sudden. Guess it’s a good thing Biden kinda looks like him now
Biden doesn’t look like Palpatine at all
You say that, until we all find out much too late that him and Darth Cheney were playing us all along
Yeah, I guess the convicted felon is destined to expire on his golden throne while trying to push out a Big Mac.
Wouldn’t it have been hilarious if that’s what happened after the fact?
No mixed feelings here, just heaps of disappointment.
Nothing mixed. Fully sad he didn’t die and this will cement his win in the coming months. We’re fucked.
There’s still time for the DNC to swap Biden out for a more electable candidate and energize their own base again, for what it’s worth, though at this point I think the DNC wants to lose so they can secure more funding.
I’ll say it out loud: On the one hand, dying of cancer sucks. On the other, Shannon Doherty was really mean to her coworkers.
Just realized she passed away yesterday, I only heard about Gene Simmons.
Edit: RICHARD Simmons. Gene is the guy from KISS.
That was a wild fitness class…
I’ve not looked at the news yet, Lemmy was my first stop. I’m thinking… earthquake in the Kremlin?
There’s a lot of really nice architecture there, it’d be a shame for it to be lost in rubble.
That, or we got disqualified from the Euros final xD
Trump got shot at. Trump fine (hence the meme), shooter dead, couple bystanders dead.
Trump got shot at. Trump fine (hence the meme), shooter dead, couple
bystandersTrump supporters dead.they’re still people
We’re getting into paradox of tolerance territory, tbh. I’m not upset that supporters of fascism were killed.
I am upset that the guy with the rifle didn’t have better aim (if indeed that was actually how everything went down, and it wasn’t staged in one way or another, because there are several fishy things about this).
Yeah, bad people who try to establish fascism in america, so nothing to be sad about.
Yea americans forget that sometimes
The kind of “people” that are ok with killing most of the others.
Yep, given the number of places currently ‘technically’ invaded by the country. I guess i guess everyone’s desensitised
True, but they’re still people. Dehumanizing them because they dehumanized you is another path that I don’t care to see. It’s good to be intolerant of intolerance, but nothing ever gives anyone the privilege to do anything intolerable.
The Nazis sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials were people, but they still deserved what they got
They are, indeed, people. My point was only that they are not “bystanders”. They are actively involved, and much more so than the average voter.
i wouldn’t know, according to them and their folks, my friends and family and I are not people, so I guess my definition of that must differ. moreover, I don’t dispense sympathy for people who would cheer and support the news that me and mine have been hunted down and shot in the street. I don’t sympathize with the aggressors. I’ve just been trying to mind my own business and live my life as best I can, but these people (in sudden newfound need of sympathy and feelings of safety, lmao) have been talking for years of purges of non-Whites and gays, and civil wars, and rounding up the undesirables (that’s me, apparently, by virtue of birth) to clean up the country. might as well be asking me to sympathize with a school shooter over his hearing damage from not wearing earplugs while he mowed down a classroom.
But that’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make
Pessimistically, I don’t see how the system gets better without full collapse.
But wow imagine a few normal candidates running again. Imagine getting to vote for politics and not in a rule-breaking popularity contest.
That’s a bit drama-queenish.
We had a good thing before Trump ran for president and won.
Once he’s gone things will go back to normal over time.
Trump is just the logical conclusion of the christo fascist takeover of the Republicans. It will be there when he’s gone
I understand your position but I think you’re wrong. Fascists always, without exception, need a “charismatic” leader like the Nazis with Hitler or the Russians with Putin. There’s currently only Trump who can fill that role. It’s of course possible that another such person appears out of nowhere, but I don’t see anyone on their side. Trump was a TV star and tacky racist celeb (birthed) since the 80s. His brand isn’t new, he build it over a long time. Who do you think would fill his shoes if yesterday’s attempt had succeeded? There’s no one.
This is Great Man Theory. Trump would not be popular if his policies and stances weren’t popular, and there are plenty of replacements.
Yet who is a better fit for that theory than Trump, from the perspective of his fans, at least?
That’s not what Great Man Theory is. Trump is an excellent exampoe of why Great Man Theory is wrong. Great Man Theory just states that history is guided by influential figures, which is wrong. The Material Conditions of society determine what ideas dominate, and thus people appearing to be influential become popular.
Oh someone took a semester of social sciences! Way to go, son!
Raegan was a similar character previously. I don’t doubt they will arise again. Certainly, there are many Republicans with the same reactionary politics.
We’ve missed the exit for the third-best timeline that still involves That Guy: the one where Donnie bites the dust before the elections. Unless someone fills the guy’s plane with Anthrax or something like that, we’re still on track for locking in the USA as a failed state.
(the second best timeline with That Guy would be the one where he simply loses the election. The very best would be where the DOJ makes something stick against him & he’s disqualified before the elections.)
Let’s also face it, if there’s a candidate that’s so divisive that someone looks at the massive security apparatus for people like him and still think it’s worth trying to assassinate him, that would be grounds - at least for me - to re-evaluate whether the candidate is the right guy.
Having your own team trying to kill you says a lot too.
