The only thing worse than making him a martyr would be failing to make him a martyr. If he had died, the person taking his place wouldn’t have the same die-hard following or charisma as he does. Now, he gets to reap the same benefits as if he were martyred, without the disorganization and fragmentation of someone trying to fill in his shoes.

This is truly the worst timeline.

What makes me laugh about tankies, is that you support an ideology that stands in defiance of the freedoms you have. Including the freedom you have to chose who to support.

Well said.

I understand and respect looking up to the achievements of smaller communist states that actually care about their own citizens wellbeing and lack the desire to exploit foreign nations, but China, Russia, and North Korea aren’t in that list. Being a powerless citizen of the United States or other (non-EU) Western countries sucks, but it usually doesn’t suck as badly as being a powerless citizen of those three.

I’m also not going to come up with conspiracy theories until there’s been some time to go over evidence and analyze the situation.

Respect for that. It’s a reasonable and rational response to today’s series of events, despite the temptations of role-playing as a conspiracy theorist to escape from having to think about the hypothetical consequences of said events.

Being serious about it for a moment, it’s extremely unlikely that it’s a false flag attack. It’s fun to joke about the idea, but the reality is that it doesn’t appear to be staged, and he’s far too much of a coward to agree to have somebody shoot at him.

Besides that, there’s plenty of politically-unaffiliated groups or individuals who would probably want him gone just for how his last term contributed to the abortion bans, reunification of church and state (in some states), government corruption, etc.

Unfortunately, the number is likely going to be a lot higher.

I’m pretty sure a lot of the people here are (or at least me) are being joking/sarcastic about the false flag conspiracy. For us Lemmings, there’s no emotional stake in these events, whereas his supporters will be angered over anyone even attempting to kill their fascist idol…

It won’t make anyone here seem better, I agree. But at the same time, it’s not like we’re going to have the opportunity to joke around like this after the inevitable happens.

Enjoy life while you still can, you know?

That is assuming there is another rally, and today’s incident wasn’t just the catalyst for a Jan 6 sequel. Knowing his supporters, I’m not holding my breath, unfortunately.

It’s fun to indulge in, and it doesn’t change the fact that shit is about to hit the fan, regardless of whether the shooter was someone with a legitimate desire or a paid gunman. Trump was just given and used a golden ticket to both rally republicans to vote for him, and to incite his diehard followers into another insurrection.

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Jan 6 is going to look like pleasant stroll compared to what’s coming after this…

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This is what wins him the election insurrection.

FTFY. He called on his rabid supporters to “fight.” I think we all know what that means.

Several secret service agents surrounded him as he put his hand up and appeared to shout “fight” to his supporters who began cheering.

From the article:

Trump stood up and held his fist in the air with what appeared to be blood dripping down his face.

Several secret service agents surrounded him as he put his hand up and appeared to shout “fight” to his supporters who began cheering.

Undoubtedly, this will incite his violent insurrectionist fan base into a repeat of Jan 6.

From the article:

Trump stood up and held his fist in the air with what appeared to be blood dripping down his face.

Several secret service agents surrounded him as he put his hand up and appeared to shout “fight” to his supporters who began cheering.

An excellent PR stunt and call to action for his violent insurrectionist supporters, if you ask me.

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Considering China is allied with Russia and buys nearly half of their crude oil exports, they haven’t needed to invade other countries for oil. I’ll give you that, but at the same time, they’re also indirectly assisting and allied with a country that is happily trying to extinguish the entirety of Ukraine.

Roads and ports. With abusive conditions that all but make it impossible for the poorer countries to satisfy their terms, ultimately leading to China being free to claim the infrastructure they built on foreign soil as their own. They might not be as obvious about it as the United States, but they are still a captialist, colonialist country antithetical to communist goals.

Every global superpower does their fair share of this shit. The countries we should actually be looking up to are the socialist/communist ones that rapidly accelerated their growth and citizens’ quality of life before being destabilized by an existing global superpower (usually, the United States).

Whether you like it or not, Canada is heavily dependent on said shithole of a country. You’re similarly as fucked as the rest of us if Trump wins and decides to stop protecting Canada or importing their natural resources in favor of domestic production.

The rules should be applied only to people without power?

Unfortunately, this is how it usually works out. Unjust bullshit, but this is the world we live in.

Sure it is–for profits. If Trump gets reelected, all those pesky government regulations about the environment and securities will be thrown out window.