Saturday, July 13, 2024

24-7-13 Schade

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24-7-13 Shooter dead and attendee killed at tRUMP rally - CBC > .
24-7-14 How tRUMP's Attempted Assassination Unfolded | WSJ > .24-7-14 Покушение на Трампа | Assassination Attempt - Impacts? (subs) - Katz > .
24-7-15 [Failed] Attempted Assasination illustrated in 3D - Mike Bell > 24-7-16 Mapping the [Failed] Shooting - fern > 24-7-16 Assassination [Attempt]: Konstantin Kisin Not Surprised - Triggernometry > .
24-8-1 How the Secret Service Failed Catastrophically - Real > .
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24-7-25 Replying to Donald Trump Jr's [false equivalence] Nonsense - Betty > .
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24-7-15 ['Murica] - Violence Against Politicians Has Surged | WSJ > .

>> Authoritarianism >>>

Tragically, a bystander was killed and others injured during the shooting mêlée. The 20-year-old shooter was shot and killed by Secret Service snipers. agrtdr

Needless to say, conspiracy theories have sprung up like weeds. "People can be prone to believe in conspiracy theories due to a combination of personality traits and motivations, including relying strongly on their intuition, feeling a sense of antagonism and superiority toward others, and perceiving threats in their environment, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. .... The researchers found that overall, people were motivated to believe in conspiracy theories by a need to understand and feel safe in their environment and a need to feel like the community they identify with is superior to others. .... The researchers also found that people with certain personality traits, such as a sense of antagonism toward others and high levels of paranoia, were more prone to believe conspiracy theories. Those who strongly believed in conspiracy theories were also more likely to be insecure, paranoid, emotionally volatile, impulsive, suspicious, withdrawn, manipulative, egocentric and eccentric." 

[The APA article does not address another likely cause of trips down the rabbit hole ---- social-media algorithms are designed to amplify any tendency toward viewing/reading material that promotes suspicions.]

In 70 years, this prophesy proved accurate: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (1956)

24-6-27 Sad! 24-7-21 Better! ..
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Insurrection 2021-1-6 ..
MAGAtry ..
Overton Window ..
Political Shifts ..
Schade [failed assassination attempt, attendee killed] 24-7-13 ..

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