Some people will be miserable no matter who is running

  • Katana314@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Even Fox was calling out the tone after Trump was shot. They acknowledged Trump himself has used language akin to encouraging violence on many occasions, while the worst the left has done is label him a fascist - a mostly accurate term. Yet, people had been praising those violent remarks while calling out democrats, even after discovering the shooter was a devout Republican.

    There is no introspection among them.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 months ago

      even after discovering the shooter was a devout Republican.

      Was he? He’d voted in what, one election as a registered Republican and made one tiny donation to ActBlue. I doubt he was a terribly devout anything politically. I suspect once more about him becomes public it’s going to be about fame seeking.rather than a political message. After all his name is going to be in the history books, and would have been there more prominently if he’d landed the shot.

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        3 months ago

        They interviewed his colleagues at school and they were adamant that he was very much on the conservative side.

        • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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          3 months ago

          Then why target Trump? Surely he wrote some kind of something about his goal there? I doubt he thought killing Trump would trigger the meteoric rise of a “true” conservative leader who would mobilize the right under Trump’s martyrdom and that no one would notice his political affiliation in the process.

          • Katana314@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            You can ask him, if you’d like…

            The working theory is that he was part of Project 2025, and felt betrayed (as all of Trump’s former supporters have been) when he disavowed himself of involvement in it (as he pretty much had to since it was terrorism).

            It’s a stupid pattern. Trump claims he supports X with no plan to support X, then when talking to X’s opponents, says he opposes X; then does nothing either way unless it benefits him. Millions of people are only slowly figuring this out.

            • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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              3 months ago

              You can ask him, if you’d like…

              Let me just pull out my Ouija board, though I’ve never been the best with it…

              The working theory is that he was part of Project 2025, and felt betrayed (as all of Trump’s former supporters have been) when he disavowed himself of involvement in it (as he pretty much had to since it was terrorism).

              A 20 year old community college student was “part of” Project 2025? In what context do you mean here?

              Like I said, I suspect the 20 year old community college student that had voted as a Republican in exactly one election and made exactly one small donation to a Democrat PAC was probably not stewed into a murderous rage against the presidential candidate that is the de facto cult leader of the party he was registered as for political reasons.

              Supposedly his final social media post was a message on Steam reading: “July 13th will be my debut, watch how it goes” That feels much more like chasing notoriety than a political manifesto.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            3 months ago

            Go ask a psychologist, there are a billion fucking reasons for a human to snap and do irrational shit.

            People don’t even need to snap to be consistently irrational.