• The Snark Urge
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    462 months ago

    My friends and I agree that boredom is the only appropriate response. We were over it within an hour

      • The Snark Urge
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        412 months ago

        It’s just “don’t feed the trolls” logic as applied to narcissistic politicians

        • @[email protected]
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          -122 months ago

          Caring that a former politician was almost assassinated isn’t feeding the trolls. Being bored by the very reasonable deluge of coverage of a former president nearly being assassinated is absolutely grim as hell man. Assuming the poster is American take some fucking interest in your life.

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            2 months ago

            I hate to contradict you but I do take an interest in my life; this is why I emigrated from America, years ago.

                • @[email protected]
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                  -12 months ago

                  Being bored by political violence isn’t caring, sorry. Being bored by the rampant gun violence epidemic, being bored by the American death cult, these things are not caring.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 months ago

        Nah, what’s grim is that the bullet missed his brain. Granted, it’s a tiny target, but still…

  • @[email protected]
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    322 months ago

    Shame he didn’t have a scandal on that stage. They would have stopped taking about it within the day.

    • @[email protected]
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      432 months ago

      To be fair, an assassination attempt like this hasn’t happened within the lifetime of many Lemmyists. Trump has a scandal every other week.

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          And the 2016 assassination attempt on little known US presidential candidate Donald Trump…

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            12 months ago

            Huh.

            If I ever heard about that, I don’t remember it. It really seems so mild in comparison to everything else.

            Also, he didn’t shoot at Trump, so it is different.

            But it’s true there hasn’t been another credible attempt on a US president like this since Reagan.

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            92 months ago

            I dunno, that cobbled together Fallout 4 pipe gun was pretty wild.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 months ago

    Yet how many people know Trump’s mentor was a gay mafia lawyer, or that Biden has had a life long struggle with a speech impediment?

    The media doesn’t cover these things as much as they should.

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      Duuude Biden is OOOOOLLLLDDD. Old people can’t be president. I’m sure I’ll eventually be living in a cardboard box if Biden loses but he’s just so OOOOOOOOLLLLLDDDD and we can’t have that!!!11!!!1!!1!1 /s

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      42 months ago

      All the Dems are freaking out over this, but its the only news item capable of dethroning “Biden Old!” headlines that were pummeling them since the debate.

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        It gives them some breathing room to strategise out of the spotlight, which might be what their comms blackout is really about - I don’t believe it’s truly out of respect for Trump, I mean come on. They’re politicians and he’s… Trump. That is of course assuming they’re actually serious about winning, which they don’t really seem to be if I’m honest.

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      12 months ago

      Or we can talk about that AND the fact that the world would have been a better place if Crooks had been a better shot 🤷

      Except Biden isn’t too old, he’s too cognitively diminished. For example, Bernie is about a year older and showing no symptoms of cognitive decline.

      Granted, Bernie was an elite cross country runner in his youth and still goes for a run every day, so that definitely helps…