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.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't. They might commit more hate crimes, but mass shooters usually do it because they're demoralized and feel powerless. Trump supporters are the opposite rn. The shooter rolled a natural 1 for agility and Trump rolled a critical success for luck. It couldn't have gone better for him.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The DC for the shot was much higher than you think. He rolled a combined 24 when the DC was 25.

If he rolled a 1 he would have been shot dead before getting a shot off at all. Instead, he grazed the target's ear from over 100 feet away. That took skill.

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was around 400 feet, but that's still absolutely nothing for an AR. My 65 year old mother was hitting a six-inch target at 300 ft her first time ever shooting.

For comparison, Army recruits have to hit a human sized target at about 500 ft to qualify. And basically everyone qualifies.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] tyler@programming.dev 16 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Reports are saying it’s the teleprompter glass that cut him, which makes wayyyy more sense than him getting grazed.

load more comments (4 replies)

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 34 points 4 months ago (7 children)

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@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (6 replies)

[–] Semicolon@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I honestly give it a 50% chance that there’s some sort of mass casualty event in the next 12 hours related to this.

Given that there is more mass shootings in USA than days in a year, I think this ship has already sailed...

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemm.ee 24 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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@feddit.nl 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I forgot that SS also stood for Secret Service...

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

USSS.

The acronym is USSS.

Some of his detail might wish they were SS but we're not there... Yet.

load more comments (4 replies)

[–] Ioughttamow@kbin.run 16 points 4 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)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 174 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Even assassins are enshittified these days smh my head. Back in the day, JFK got shot in a moving car.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That was the CIA, this was a grassroots effort

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 33 points 4 months ago

By a registered Republican, smh. Real leftists don't skip range day.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I thought JFK was grassy effort...

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] Addition1291@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Idk man, I have it on good authority that JFK's head just did that all on its own.

load more comments (5 replies)

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, but they had multiple people, magic bullets, and CIA backing.

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 106 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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@lemm.ee 24 points 4 months ago

Happy birthday!

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 98 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He missed his chance to blow

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 68 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You better lose yourself in the music

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 90 points 4 months ago

I expected nothing and I’m still disappointed

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 78 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This happened today and this image already looks like it's been reposted for over a decade

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The tags are probably sports related. It likely HAS been reposted for decades.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 4 months ago

[–] HauntedBucket@lemm.ee 42 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I'm glad he survived. His life should be full in quantity and empty of quality.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago

78 seems like a pretty full quantity if you ask me.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (19 children)

but also because him dying doesn't solve the problem. people forget that he's actually unpopular. him getting replaced would benefit the party. and the real problem is the entire fascist party. their agenda won't change with TFG dying.

load more comments (19 replies)

[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but imagine if they retaliate and assassinate Biden? Wouldn't that be... interesting.

I'm considering what the impact would be on the election if it were Harris running, for example

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Biden has a clear successor. Trump doesn't. The assassination of a head of state would draw sympathy worldwide. The state funeral would be huge. Right now, Trump is still just some politician running for office.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I fucking hate this meta but we literally are at the point where Joe Biden should seriously consider faking his own death.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (8 children)

This should be an option for all politicians. You can fake your own death, then you get put in to Witness Protection and can retire to a quiet, peaceful life on a ranch in Wyoming. Quit without having to deal with slack from party leaders.

load more comments (8 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 months ago

He's always enjoyed that. He's clearly not a person of quality. Fuck the orange demon

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love that none of us are pretending Trump's a good person just because someone tried to kill him.

[–] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 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

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can someone fill in whats happened?

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 50 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Assassination attempt on Trump

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's not what we need right now, damn.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] Brickardo@feddit.nl 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Also Darwin Núñez played a match about the same time frame, so funnily enough those two comments must have overlapped

load more comments (5 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] shadowscale@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

they fired, and they missed. they fired again, missed again.

this has been stuck in my head since hearing about it

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 4 months ago

Mf forgot they were playing on death sentence difficulty

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

If I understood the news correctly, the shooter was actually listed as "Republican". Do you actually expect such a person to get something that important right?

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gotta say, a lot of people here talking a lot of shit about someone who actually had the balls to at least try to do something direct considering none of y'all have taken a shot at it yourselves in Minecraft.

You can't complain about someone failing to do your personal final fantasy when they at least tried to achieve what you haven't.

I'm certain some of you legitimately can't for personal reasons, but if you can and you're not doing it either, you can't complain that they missed skibbity.

After all, as Dr. Doofinshmirtz once said, "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take".

If you're interested in doing more, learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHEgHjJvR94

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago

This reads like written by 3 different people

load more comments