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It’s just some unstable dude. Why do you think everybody suddenly wants to murder Trump?

• krapp 2y ago
  People have wanted Trump to drop dead even before 2016, there's nothing sudden about it.
  • mrguyorama 2y ago
    Yeah but how many want to murder him. I'm pretty rabidly anti-Trump, but him dying is not going to fix anything, we have tens of millions of people who are horrifically angry and completely detached from reality. What really caught me was just how quickly and agressively a bunch of accounts were pushing a conspiracy theory that this was a false flag put together by the Trump team to boost his ratings as if: 1) Trump would sign onto a plan involving someone shooting him damn near his face 2) As if just barely grazing someone's ear is something you can plan in advance and get right often enough to not accidentally kill the guy it's supposed to benefit 3) As if it's impossible for a young man in America to be utterly disconnected from reality enough to shoot at a politician. It made it very very clear that 90% of the posts on ANYTHING even remotely interesting are either explicitly bad faith actors trying to push divisive narratives, or worse, stupid sycophants repeating anything they see on the internet. I'm genuinely glad he survived.
    • krapp 2y ago
      Someone has probably wanted, planned or tried to kill most American Presidents since at least Lincoln. Most such attempts don't make the news, much less happen on camera.