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.

  • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    13 days ago

    The quote I saw elsewhere that summed it up best for me is, “even if it’s real, it’s still fake”.

    The whole thing was just a bit too rubbish, like, if you were going to try shooting the President, the events as report seem like such an obviously useless way to go about it that there’s got to be something else going on.

    My favourite conspiracy theory is that it’s their way of getting an already-sympathetic White House press corps to feel like they’re part of the whole thing, that attacks on the President are also attacks on them personally - trying to create a feeling that they and Trump are all trauma survivors who are in it together.

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
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        12 days ago

        I don’t know how to respond to that beyond posting what’s already been said.

        a gunman opened fire near a security checkpoint at the event in Washington DC.

        He was tackled by agents just short of a staircase which leads down to a ballroom where the annual White House correspondents’ dinner attended by hundreds of journalists and public figures was getting under way.

        Officials said he possessed multiple weapons and appears to have acted alone.

        How would anyone imagine they’d be able to just blast their way through security checkpoints to get to the President? Did he think he was Neo or something?

        • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.caOP
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          12 days ago

          How would anyone imagine they’d be able to just blast their way through security checkpoints to get to the President?

          I don’t find it that had to believe that someone might attempt that. There are a lot of people out there who are not mentally sound

          • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
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            12 days ago

            There are a lot of people out there who are not mentally sound

            See I think your reasoning there proves my point quite well. If the first explanation you go to is that the person is not mentally sound, then almost by definition these are actions that don’t make sense.

            • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.caOP
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              12 days ago

              Ah I see. Yes, I agree, they don’t make sense, but not necessarily in a way that implies conspiracy