I’m seeing a bunch of posts insinuating that this most recent assassination attempt was fake. Why do people think this? I’m out of the loop.
I’m seeing a bunch of posts insinuating that this most recent assassination attempt was fake. Why do people think this? I’m out of the loop.
I don’t think misinformation is ever helpful, really. It has proven to be pretty toxic for society at large. I think we should avoid it. I know Trump spews this stuff constantly but that’s also one of the main reasons why he lacks credibility. We shouldn’t forfeit our credibility, too. I know the left is struggling in the US right now, but there are many reasons for that. The left’s distaste for misinformation is not one of those reasons.
There is no objective truth. If you learn nothing else about life, learn that.
There is what you believe the evidence points to being the most likely sequence of events. That’s it.
Is it likely that Trump was the trigger to end a 40 year streak of presidents not having assassination attempts? Really? You don’t think every Snaggletooth with a gun in BFE Alabama actively planned to shoot Obama and would have at least made the news in an attempt? Is it really likely that the single most expense set of secret police in world history – a group of organizations with NO PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY and a history of human rights abuses worse than any other group in known world history, have failed multiple times to stop random kids with guns that magically fire the wrong caliber bullets?
No. It’s not likely Americans magically grew a spine for Trump, who is just the average American President without an tact or competency for secrecy.
What is likely is the WWE Superstar, whose only goal in life has been to be in Hollywood, has a stage director and keeps trying to garner sympathy with these fake attempts.
“There is no objective truth. Except for this: there is no objective truth.”
If this is true, then wouldn’t the idea that ‘there is no objective truth’ itself be an objective truth? Seems like this view leads to contradictions. There are also things that are obviously objectively true. Two and two make four. Is that not objectively true? Climate change is real. Is that not objectively true?
Yes. He is by far the most hated president in recent history. And political polarization in the US is probably the highest it’s been since the 1960s.
Yes. In general, the US government seems pretty incompetent right now. This is just a continuation of that trend. Also, Trump is still alive despite multiple attempts on his life. So in a way, they’re kind of not doing that bad? Obviously they’ve had a number of significant missteps but in the end they seem to always achieve their goal of protecting his life.
I don’t know if the event was faked or not, but I think we should really resist the temptation to say it was faked just because we want it to be fake.