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Looks like someone took some shots at prez candidate Donald Trump at a rally in PA. From the videos I've seen, it looks like he did get grazed.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Considering the number of people here claiming this was Trump staging a false flag, I am absolutely certain there are a similarly large number of people on the right saying this was Biden trying to assassinate Trump and something must be done. So I hope not.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unfortunately, the number is likely going to be a lot higher.

I'm pretty sure a lot of the people here are (or at least me) are being joking/sarcastic about the false flag conspiracy. For us Lemmings, there's no emotional stake in these events, whereas his supporters will be angered over anyone even attempting to kill their fascist idol...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I’m pretty sure a lot of the people here are (or at least me) are being joking/sarcastic about the false flag conspiracy.

I'm not sure of that at all, especially when emotions are running high.

I'm not absolutely discounting the possibility they they somehow found some schlub to die in a fake assassination attempt, but I'm also not going to come up with conspiracy theories until there's been some time to go over evidence and analyze the situation.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I'm also not going to come up with conspiracy theories until there's been some time to go over evidence and analyze the situation.

Respect for that. It's a reasonable and rational response to today's series of events, despite the temptations of role-playing as a conspiracy theorist to escape from having to think about the hypothetical consequences of said events.

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