WHAT
- Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump was shot at a rally in PA.
TRUMPS STATEMENT
“I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW SO FAR
- gunman is dead
- Trump "is fine"
- one attendee is dead
- another attendee is in critical condition
News Sources
- CNN - Trump rushed off stage after shooting at Pennsylvania rally
- AP News - Live updates: Shooting at Trump rally is being investigated as assassination attempt, AP sources say
- The Hill - George W. Bush condemns ‘cowardly attack’ at Trump rally
- Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) on Xitter - video interview with witness who tried to warn police before shooting happened
- Sky News - Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage (Article confirms one rally attendee dead)
- Reuters - Biden says he is grateful to hear Trump is safe, has been briefed on shooting
- OAlexanderDK on Xitter - The shooter was on a roof approximately 125m or 400ft from where Trump was standing.
- JakeMRosen on Xitter - An emergency room doctor I spoke with tried to save someone’s life in the crowd
A reminder, he incited people Jan 6th which resulted in deaths.
And instead we got a guarantee of actual fascism in America. This was a stupid, selfish move.
Now a single deranged person forced that path in history instead of letting democracy runs its course.
The comment in question was removed for celebrating and advocating violence, which violates lemmy.world Server Terms of Service
That's not a justification for more violence, two wrongs don't make a right. He was wrong for doing what he did and this is wrong as well. This is because political violence in it's entirety is wrong. Jesus, do people not have principles anymore? Seeing all the supposedly moral people turn into Q anon level conspiracy theorists who condone violence is depressing.
You're right. But let me tell you all about the sympathy I have for him:
That's about it.
Let us take this as a reminder for everyone concerned with their own safety in a fascist state.
Guns wont do shit for you unless you regularly practice your marksmanship and keep your equipment in good condition.
A fascist exercised and practiced marksmanship today, did you, dear reader?
That's when you say I will happily read their obituary
I don't have any sympathy for him either, but that's still not a reason to abandon my principles and start cheering for political violence
Why do you keep saying that when I didn't?
I'm not cheering for political violence
Tell me, should we have turned the other cheek during WWII? Two wrongs don't make a right after all, right?
We didn't join WWII because the Nazis were bad, we joined because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and then Hitler declared war on the US.
Exactly, should've just turned the other cheek, right?
Really? You don't realize that the US didn't join a war that started in 1939 until 1941 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor ... so was only part of the war for less than 4 years?
Wow!
You inferred something about Nazis, and now what you're saying makes no sense as a response to what I've been asking you.
I'll put it more clearly so you can actually give an answer: When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, you're saying we should've turned the other cheek?
I think this poster is saying: “since you believe two wrongs don’t make a right, then when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the correct thing to do in your view would to turn the other cheek.”
No, I'm just pointing out that your comparison is flawed. We didn't know about the Holocaust until the war was almost over. The Soviets were the first to discover and liberate the camps back in 1944 (too bad they ended up having their own brutal camps) and the Americans liberated the first camp they discovered (Ohrdruf) in April 1945... the war in Europe was over in a month. That's when the then general Eisenhower ordered the American soldiers to find the other camps, free the captives, and take pictures of everything they came across so Nazi crimes can be thoroughly documented and the American public can be made aware of them.
My point is that we didn't intervene in the war because of what the Nazis were doing like you seem to imply, we intervened because we got attacked and declared war on.
It wasn't confirmed until the war was nearly over. But even before then we knew the Axis powers were slaughtering people while they conquered Europe.
technically two negatives multiplied does.
I didn't say it was. You just put those words in my mouth.
A wrong makes a right if it prevents many many horrible wrongs in the future.
So you're telling me conservatives will realize this has gone to far and tell everyone to remain calm and peaceful?
Mhmm. Where exactly do you draw the line regarding use of force as a preventative measure?
Ikr!
That's the wild thing.
This is a "Oh no what will Cheeto say to start a riot?"
This shit was never here before because it's likely CYA mode for Lemmy because feds could come sniffing here if copycat incidents occur.
bro the feds are already sniffing lemmy you think they arent?
They're sniffing lemmy just like their sniffing literally every other social media platform right now.
Is it not actually called the fed........averse....
fed i verse.
Federal investigation universe. Checkmate.
Oh so that’s why my official Lemmy moderator paycheck comes from the FBI?
(This is a joke, we are not paid)
the M stands for Money :)
There is a difference between background-level bulk sniffing and someone-here-maybe-incited-violence targeted sniffing. The former is data collection, which is passive in the form practiced by “the feds”. The latter is data connection, putting effort into connecting a subset of the data that has been collected to form a story. Data connections need a framing, a nucleation seed, an impetus for why the feds might think such a connection is interesting or relevant or worth adding to their story about a larger incident. Collecting data is cheap and done in bulk, partly because it can be done passively and partly because the US govt paid a lot of money on storage and collection mechanisms. Connecting data is something that requires a lot more time, effort, patience, and vetting to make sure you are doing it right.
Or you can give the job to generative AI and hope it doesn’t hallucinate that someone innocent is guilty; with a large enough data pool (ie the internet, reality, what-have-you) it’s possible to select a misleading subset to support whatever hallucination you want.
It’s easy to do wrong, which is exactly why you don’t want the feds sniffing around. Especially now that they have the tools to automate doing it wrong, and might not know how to use them yet.
yeah obviously, but it's all the same at the end of the day. And they definitely have people actively sniffing around social media posts surrounding this at the moment.
Or all the domestic violence
And his cult still defends the insurrectionists.
Unless it's more convenient to call them Antifa.
Two wrongs do not make a right though.
But 3 rights make a left
But 1 click on a windage knob would have.
This is funnier retrospectively because apparently this fucking dumbass wasn't even using an optic. insanity