• hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Except there is no way his ear really was scraped by a bullet. They didn’t even bother to produce a half-arsed scar on the earlobe to make the charade convincing.

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      Yep! All fake! Brave Donald Trump conspired to have a teenager fire an assault rifle at him from 350’. The teenager agreed to die by sniper fire. Biden’s USSS, who he had purged of MAGA, and Trump was not in charge of, was in on it. The local cops were in on it. The NYT photographer who caught a pic of the bullet in flight was in on it. The dead guy behind Trump shot himself, as did the wounded folks, because they loved Trump so much. Trump pulled a masterful piece of acting where he looked utterly stunned when they picked him up. Biden’s FBI confirmed Trump was fired on. We all know what masterful planning and execution Trump and his people are capable of, and they always keep their mouths shut, not a single leak! All this for a single-digit ratings bump that barely lasted a week. It’s all very simple if you think about it.

      OR, a teenager got past weak security, climbed onto a rooftop and shot his shot, missed and barely dinged Trump in the ear.

      This is THE dumbest conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard. Used to be it was just morons on the right that were such complete fucking morons.

      EDIT: Oh shit! Trump even paid off Snopes!

      https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picture-trump-bullet/

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        I thought that the fake part was just that he hurt his ear while ducking down and since he’s an older man, a slight scratch can bleed quite a bit. So him claiming to be hit by the bullet was possibly fake.

        That doesn’t have to invoke a full blown conspiracy of multiple suicides and fake gun assault.

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          In wrestling they will cut themselves with razor blades to make themselves bleed. He was heavily involved with the WWE and its owner for decades. The speculation was that he did something similar with the broken glass from the teleprompter. So what’s fake is that he saw the broken glass and when the shooter was down he cut himself in some place that bleeds well and jumped up to get the photo op.

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          10 months ago lemmy was non-stop calling the whole thing a conspiracy. That seems to have shifted big time.

          But in any case, he got clipped on the ear and I can’t imagine why there seems to be this sub-conspiracy.

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        Nice, gigantic strawman and not a single word about anything I said. That’s something for sure.

        Let me repeat: There is no way his ear really was scraped by a bullet. They didn’t even bother to produce a half-arsed scar on the earlobe to make the charade convincing.

        You made of this:

        • The teenager agreed to die by sniper fire. - Who, except the voices in your head, said that?
        • Structure of the USSS with source trust me bro.
        • There’s a pic of a bullet flying - Please point out where I say there weren’t any bullets fired or was it the voices again?
        • etc. etc blablabla on stuff I never wrote.

        Again. and maybe read it slower this time: The. Ear. Wasn’t. Wounded.

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          You conspiracy people, on this subject, are morons. That was my message and I stand by it.

          So everything else was true, but the bullet wound was faked?! Is that where we’re at?

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            You spouting a deluge of utter BS I never said doesn’t make anyone a conspiracy person. It just marks yourself as bullshitter.

            But by all means go on with your soliloquy.

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      Question: is there some evidence or new fact that would make you change your mind on this? If so, what? If not, what does that say about your belief?

      I do think his ear really was hit by the bullet, but if a major news org were to release some evidence that there actually was a conspiracy and it was all fake, I’d change my mind no question.

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        Easy: a credible medical exam stating his ear was indeed hurt by a bullet.

        And by credible I mean not by the doctors stating he is healthy but independent ones.

        There’s a lot amiss in that story but it is also yesterdays news.

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        Literally, show the scar on his ear. Where is it? A part of his ear should have been blown off. What happened?

        Or was it just a piece of glass from the screen that shattered, cutting his ear a little?

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          It was a bullet, we have a pic of it in flight. It barely dinged him and head wounds bleed like mad.

          I sliced the side of my finger off, as in completely flat. Because of modern wound care there isn’t a scar would would see in a pic and the flesh actually filled back far better than the ER doc said was possible.

          https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picture-trump-bullet/

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            Get some prescription glasses. There is a picture of a bullet, not THE bullet. They were shorts fitted and people hurt. Odd this doubted by anyone other than you bringing it up as if it had relevance?

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    Why would you go to hell for wishing a better world for basically everyone other than the ultra rich? Good meme but wrong community imo

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      Because the christian god is basically satan, kills people left and right, tortures you for eternity for the stupidest reasons etc.

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        So interestingly, Gnosticism is basically a take on Christianity that makes Satan the good guy in the story for exactly this reason. He’s essentially just trying to get people to think for themselves and question this despotic creator. The forbidden fruit in the Bible is said to grant “the knowledge of good and evil” so why the fuck wouldn’t you want that?

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            Someone who puts up an apple that gives you enormous bonuses and forbids you to take it, but also allows you to do it just like that, will just add something else if you don’t fall for it.

            Actually, the banana will grant incredible sex, but it’s forbidden too. As for the orange…

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        Wasn’t there a thing in the Bible about Satan seducing people to his side? What if that was what happened and God is Satan after all.

        But also religion is fake.

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    Still criminally low. $6/gallon is £1.18/litre. What are these mollycoddled fuckwits complaining about???

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      The average American commutes 2× the distance than the average UK citizen. Plus there’s rarely a public transit option. So for many this is a doubling of an expense that cannot be avoided.

      Personally I don’t see the point in arguing over who has the higher price when we could just be mad that one man caused a global crisis

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        Plus the average US car consumes much more fuel than the average UK car. So your 2x expense would quickly become a 3-4x expense. A Ford F350 truck happens to be slightly less efficient than a Ford Focus.

        But seriously, dirt cheap fuel has caused the demand for fuel efficient vehicles to be near zero in the US. No one would drive these stupid trucks otherwise.

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          Not when we get fucked for Healthcare we don’t.

          I paid more in the US every 2 weeks for insurance and still had to pay higher prices at the doctor than I pay now for the entire month in Germany.

          On paper the salary looks good. Then the hidden costs start

          And that depends on your industry. Our upper and middle working class makes more, but the lower working class makes significantly less. Absolutely abysmal minimum wage

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      I take it you’ve never been to the US. There is no “just walk there” in most of the US. Most places don’t have functional mass transit - no busses or local trains or trollys. Even bicycle infrastructure is minimal if it even exists in most places. It’s a huge country and everything is far apart. A lot of Americans commute driving up to an hour or more every day to get to work.

      Beyond people traveling, everything we need or buy has to be moved around the country. Trains, trucks, planes, and delivery vehicles all require fuel.

      Cheap gas is a requirement for our economy to function. If gas is expensive, people drive less and prices go up across the board. If they drive less, they don’t go out as often, and if they don’t go out, they aren’t spending money in the community.

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      The UK could’ve had cheap gas as well, but the conservatives lied to their UK constituents and sold it off on the cheap. It seems like every time a conservative is elected into power they fuck the working class.

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        Until people have enough, elect people representing the workers, who fixes things (sort of) but then those conservatives always come back for second helpings.

        “You could be rich too!” Vote for me (a conservative)!

        Guess they have all their time in the world to fuck us up, while we are working.

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      Going to vote today. That’s a 12-mile round trip with no public transportation at the edge of town. How about you? Have a walk a couple of blocks?

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          You do not want to ride a bike on a lot of US roads. They’re designed for high-speed/high-volume vehicle traffic. Drivers don’t even think to look for bicyclists in most places.

          You’re right that a bicycle should be a good alternative, it’s just not realistic based on our current infrastructure.

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    Not shooting at all would also have been $3.00 per gallon. Most likely.