- djsoren19 ( @djsoren19@yiffit.net ) 101•2 months ago
People aren’t seeing this for the real precursor it is. People are getting emboldened now. There will be more events like this.
- Todd Bonzalez ( @todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ) 61•2 months ago
I’m honestly worried about tonight. Saturday night, plenty of places where people gather, and a lot of extremists are just waiting for a moment for escalation that they can exploit.
Attempting to take the life of the party leader during an election is going to push some people over the edge.
I honestly give it a 50% chance that there’s some sort of mass casualty event in the next 12 hours related to this. I fucking hope I’m wrong, or that the odds are somehow in our favor, but I’ve run out of optimism.
- Excrubulent ( @Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ) English22•2 months ago
I’m far less concerned about emboldened supporters than I am about the likely backlash by the state. Events like this are always taken as justification for more harsh oppression of the people. Also, Biden now has to make statements sympathetic to Trump. This couldn’t have gone worse - we get the blowback from an attempt, and he’s able to ride this to more popularity.
Assassination isn’t the way, folks. I know you’re hurting, I know you’re disempowered by the electoral system, but Trump and Biden aren’t the core of the problem. You can’t cut the head off because it’s not a snake, it’s a hydra. The way to beat this system is to build alternatives and wean people off of their dependence on it, and deprive it of victims. You have to starve the beast.
- Jumpingspiderman ( @Jumpingspiderman@lemm.ee ) English13•2 months ago
Taking out the fascist figureheads does nothing about the ideology and forces behind the fascism. Make being a Nazi something to be ashamed of again.
- akakunai ( @akakunai@lemmy.ca ) 4•2 months ago
The way to beat this system is to build alternatives and wean people off of their dependence on it, and deprive it of victims.
And how do you propose we do this considering the only way the system can have alternatives is if the system allows for alternatives which (spoiler) >!it won’t!<.
- Excrubulent ( @Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ) English6•2 months ago
Direct action; ie: don’t wait for the permission you will never get. Just start building locally, do mutual aid, make one another’s lives better now.
In longer form: How do we build an anarchist revolution? | Constructing the Revolution
There are links there to the text and a version with no music if you’d prefer those.
- akakunai ( @akakunai@lemmy.ca ) 6•2 months ago
I appreciate the genuine response. It’s good for my cynical ass.
- Excrubulent ( @Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ) English6•2 months ago
No worries, a lot of people are stuck in hierarchical realism. We’re programmed for it from the moment we begin school or earlier if we had authoritarian parents. It’s nobody’s fault if they haven’t yet imagined a future without hierarchy.
Edit: It’s also nice to get a genuine reply back, so thanks.
- Jumpingspiderman ( @Jumpingspiderman@lemm.ee ) English6•2 months ago
It will be more than 12 hours before it happens. But that’s small consolation. Once political violence is in the mix it can very quickly spiral out of control
- Jumpingspiderman ( @Jumpingspiderman@lemm.ee ) English17•2 months ago
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. Also the SS did not do their job. Before the attempt on Trump, people in the crowd were pointing out that guy in camouflage on the roof of that building, yet the secret service/law enforcement did not respond. And the counter sniper waited until the perp took numerous shots to respond.
- RobotZap10000 ( @RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ) 31•2 months ago
I forgot that SS also stood for Secret Service…
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) 6•2 months ago
Yeah, weird how a registered Republican sniper was given all the time in the world to get into a sniper nest with eyewitnesses but was then shot to death immediately after firing.
- Ioughttamow ( @Ioughttamow@kbin.run ) 14•2 months ago
I wonder how the narrative will change if it turns out it was a victim/relative of his (rape or fraud/failure to pay)
- Holzkohlen ( @Holzkohlen@feddit.de ) 67•2 months ago
Today is my birthday. Waking up to “Trump dead” headlines would be absolutely killer. What I got was “Trump gets ear pierced on stage”.
- w3dd1e ( @w3dd1e@lemm.ee ) 17•2 months ago
Happy birthday!
- germanatlas ( @germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 62•2 months ago
He missed his chance to blow
- ByteOnBikes ( @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ) 44•2 months ago
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime
- DickFiasco ( @DickFiasco@lemm.ee ) 16•2 months ago
You better lose yourself in the music
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.earth ) 9•2 months ago
Says the guy who blew his first chance on Mom’s spaghetti
- ByteOnBikes ( @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ) 8•2 months ago
Em got it done in round 2 though! Who knows what can happen!
- Elgenzay ( @Elgenzay@lemmy.ml ) 54•2 months ago
This happened today and this image already looks like it’s been reposted for over a decade
- LinkOpensChest.wav ( @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 36•2 months ago
- HauntedBucket ( @HauntedBucket@lemm.ee ) 28•2 months ago
I’m glad he survived. His life should be full in quantity and empty of quality.
- Catus_head ( @cactus_head@programming.dev ) 22•2 months ago
Can someone fill in whats happened?
- neutronst4r ( @neutronst4r@beehaw.org ) 7•2 months ago
Someone tried to kill Donald Trump.
- probableprotogen ( @probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 21•2 months ago
Mf forgot they were playing on death sentence difficulty
- shadowscale ( @shadowscale@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English20•2 months ago
they fired, and they missed. they fired again, missed again.
this has been stuck in my head since hearing about it
- verdare [he/him] ( @verdare@beehaw.org ) 2•2 months ago
But did they have themselves a popsicle?
- shadowscale ( @shadowscale@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•2 months ago
he woke up later with a popsicle stick in his mouth
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English19•2 months ago
I love that none of us are pretending Trump’s a good person just because someone tried to kill him.
- FMEEE ( @FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 14•2 months ago
Trump is an Asshole and this won’t change under any circumstance. And this pice of shit Musk who’s now saying “Oh No now let’s vote all for Trump because he got shot” just makes new excuses to openly support Trump but don’t get hated as much for it
- MystikIncarnate ( @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ) English8•2 months ago
I’m just sad that the shooter was killed.
Look, I don’t agree with their methods, but they’ve got grit. I like that.
It sucks that they were ultimately unsuccessful, but personally, watching secret service fumble about trying to shield Trump while he pumped his first in the air was pretty hilarious. He was just shot, and instead of being concerned for his own safety, he’s like “hell yeah, 'murrika!”.
I’ll add that my sympathies go out to the victim’s that actually were shot, not just grazed. They were not the intended target, just caught in the line of fire. Whether Republican or Democrat, losing your life simply because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, sucks. Condolences to anyone who lost someone in the event.
- Enzy ( @Enzy@lemm.ee ) Svenska7•2 months ago
I shared my opinion on this matter.
Reddit banned me.
- Theme ( @Theme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•2 months ago
Things I screamed at Declan Rice for 500
- resin85 ( @resin85@lemmy.ca ) English2•2 months ago
How do you fuck that up? --A History Of Violence