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1. pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 19:34:28 JST pistolero

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   > Regardless of what the official narrative turns out to be, I'd be very surprised if the shooter was really acting alone.
   
   People want big events to have big causes. I wouldn't be surprised if the shooter was acting totally by himself. There are 350m people here, so if we discard the elderly and the NEETs and the hikikomori and the people giving actual money to V-tubers, we have at least 2-3 million able-bodied people, 1% rate of lunacy, say 200k lunatics of sound body. Half of those people were on fedi at the time, what were the other 100,000 lunatics doing? What is it, like half the guys that are 30 and under are virgins nowadays? (Pathetic.) So 50k were plotting to shoot their ex-girlfriend, ex-wife, whatever. That leaves 50k people, minus one, who was shooting the president.
   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 19:35:05 JST Strypey

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     • Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦

     @p
     > People want big events to have big causes

     All generalisations are false. I get that lone nutters occasionally cause big damage. The Unabomber is a good example. But staged political assasinations? There's plenty of historical precedents for conspiracies where a lone nutter takes the fall. Let's just say I remain sceptical.

     > That leaves 50k people, minus one, who was shooting the president

     *Former* President.

     @stux @jeffcliff @sj_zero

   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 21:05:00 JST pistolero

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     • Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦
     @teratology @jeffcliff @sj_zero @strypey @stux Well, yeah, but it's like the Green New Deal: most of it is shit even the Heritage Foundation could not believe is workable.
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 21:05:01 JST pistolero

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     • Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦
     @strypey @jeffcliff @sj_zero @stux I clicked "Post" too early because no nicotine and I am currently the twitchiest motherfucker in the country so I'm probably on a watchlist for that alone.
     
     > My intent is to caution against leaping to that conclusion,
     
     Well, sure, everyone on the internet is certain of everything they post; I say "probably" because it seemed likely, not because it was definite. Dismissing a likely possibility is as bad as declaring total confidence in a mere possibility.
     
     > There are plenty of other motives for doing this, arguably more plausible ones.
     
     The rhetoric that this guy is the second coming of Extra Hitler is on the regular news channels here. For example, Project 2025 is a wish-list by a think-tank and they've basically scrawled "FOR THE GLORY OF ROME, WE MUST CRUCIFY EVERY VISIGOTH AMONG US AND EVERY UNCHASTE MAIDEN SHALL BE CAST INTO THE PYRE" and took a photo of it and emailed the photo to a bunch of Republicans; it's not going to happen, even the Trump Campaign isn't signing off on it, but Rachel "Even if the Steele Dossier and the Pee Tape are fake they are still real" Maddow is having hourly meltdowns about it. I would not be surprised if there are people that think Trump is actual Hitler. I mean, look at this thread.
     yuri_fury--moe_remains_true_motherfuckers.mp3
   • ren :shraggot: (teratology@the.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 21:05:01 JST ren :shraggot:

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     @p @strypey @stux @jeffcliff @sj_zero The Heritage Foundation holds a lot of influence as a think tank whether or not anyone wants to acknowledge it

   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 21:05:45 JST Strypey

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     • Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦

     @p
     > It's like the Green New Deal: most of it is shit even the Heritage Foundation could not believe is workable

     You mean the Green New Deal Biden pretty much implemented over the past 4 years, which is why your country's economy hasn't completely imploded, after the previous admin's woeful mishandling of a global pandemic and its aftermath?

     That Green New Deal?

     @stux @jeffcliff @sj_zero @teratology