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.

  • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.caOP
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    6 hours ago

    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?

    Is it likely that Trump was the trigger to end a 40 year streak of presidents not having assassination attempts?

    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.

    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?

    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.