Yes, but I’m not sure what you’re suggesting. If it’s that this was a deliberate miss (maybe to give Trump a boost) it seems implausible that anyone would plan to shoot from some distance, aiming so close to the candidate that the bullet clips his ear, but not killing him. If the aim were to miss deliberately then shooting that close to his head would risk the plan backfiring completely.
Yeah, it does seem a little unlikely that the bullet would clip the tip of his ear but he’d be fine. If the teleprompter was smashed that seems plausible.
Sex is a biological variable, shaped by our body’s hormones, anatomy, and genetics, whereas gender is a cultural construct, shaped by both our sense of self and interactions with others.
Isn’t the study implying that gender isn’t purely a cultural construct if there’s a neurological component to it?
Maybe there are actually three potentially independent elements (biological, neurological, and cultural).
Yeah, but we can distinguish between neurological components that are conditioned on biology outside the brain like chromosomes and hormones (what the article calls “sex”), components that are conditioned on learning (“cultural constructs”), and components that are conditioned on neither (what the article, apart from the quoted sentence, calls “gender”).
By “biological” I mean the neurological component that correlates with biological sex, and by “neurological” I mean the component that’s purely neurological and doesn’t correlate with anything outside the brain.
Sex is a cultural construct as well. It’s founded in a biological reality, but it’s a cultural construct that someone with my intersex conditions would’ve been assigned male at birth and someone with my cousin’s was assigned female. Other cultures might look at intersex people as one or multiple sexes and treat us distinctly and differently from endosex AMAB and AFAB people. Additionally where the line of intersex is is part of that cultural construct
Also, she committed these crimes in the USA, couldn’t she also be extradited in 8 years to be tried again in the jurisdiction where the crime was committed after serving a sentence in the country where she recruited her victims?
If they did nothing wrong in “Project 2025”, what are they afraid of? Don’t they like free advertisement of their parties agenda so that everyone knows what they are voting for?
There is like literally four fucking rooftops near the vicinity of the stage and you didn’t think to secure one of them? Thanks for making Trump a hero mf.
A successful assassination would’ve been the worst.
Do you really think if Hitler was assassinated anything changed? Maybe a leader with the same goals but without brain rot would’ve taken over, and not made critical blunders.
If people wouldn’t support Putin, he would be long dead by his closest men.
Republicans would have the same agenda but without the guy blurting it out whenever he can.
The machinery is running and you have to stop the machine, not the messenger.
Well the US is headed for civil war one way or another, unless they get rid of their current supreme court.
Trump is very much an iconic, celebrity like figure. If you cut off his head, im not sure the republican hydra can magically regrow another head that does what he does.
Imagine one of his sycophants taking control, asserting his authoritarianism in His name. Imaging Cheetoh-head up on the the cross, where now he can be your idol regardless whether even he would be that extreme
The RNC starts today. The Republicans would have to scramble to pick a candidate for president the weekend before they show off their candidate for president. It would have caused chaos for them.
Maybe a leader with the same goals but without brain rot would’ve taken over, and not made critical blunders.
People always say this, but I think it’s a rather facile analysis.
Fascism when fully instituted basically doesn’t work as a governing ideology. Many countries have tried it and many countries have found that out.
Sure, there’s sometimes encampments; there’s sometimes secret police; there’s sometimes using the military on your own countrymen; there’s sometimes genocides; there’s sometimes surveillance; there’s sometimes lots of things…but you know what it always breeds? A government full of distrusting, incompetent, loyalist boobs that are slaves to one man’s dumb ass ideas.
There is no competent version of fascism because one man alone cannot “fix it”. Even a singular genius cannot rule a modern country based upon just his own ideas, he has to have a group of competent people surrounding him, triaging issues, and analyzing different things…those type of people don’t tend to want to work for the type of backbiting, dark triad narcissists that nearly always sit at the center of fascist government.
Fascism leads to dark, terrible things, but it’s basically always, at its heart, a kakistocracy.
EDIT: Besides you were originally making the argument that there could be a “more competent” Trump which is what my reply was talking about. Fascist governments are, in my opinion, inherently incompetent. Even the whole “Mussolini made the trains run on time” crap was just rhetoric and propaganda.
There are other forms of government by effectively one “chosen” person (i.e. dictatorships), and I don’t think they necessarily have to be fully staffed up with incompetents in the same way fascist regimes naturally have to be.
None of your reasoning follows. You think the shooting is suspicious, but have no evidence to believe it was a “false flag”. Don’t accuse others of not playing make-believe correctly.
Can you stop with this whole false flag BS? The kid was over 400 feet away. The margin for error with a rifle at that distance, shooting for a target that small is zero. A slightly stiffer left to right wind and the bullet shatters his skull and Trump is picking bits of bone fragments out of his brain. Or if he shifts his head tenths of a second before the shooter pulls the trigger. Or if the sights were zeroed the day before.
It’s asinine to believe that this was staged. There’s a 20 year old kid shot dead on the roof by secret service and a 50 year old bystander dead in the stands behind Trump. Trump got lucky. Just as he always fucking does. I wish that wasn’t the case, but that’s what happened and now we just need to figure out how we deal with it.
Lmfao trump ain’t no hero. Getting shot at doesn’t instantly make you a better person. He was a piece of shit before getting shot at and I’m sure he’ll act more of a piece of shit after.
The realization people want you dead can do that though… This isnt The idea that people want to hurt you. But actually knowing they want to kill you. If you could continue thinking this was a outlier them your very naive.
He isn’t a hero in the literal sense, but he is the person who “people are trying to silence”, and who is “fighting the good fight”, so people will see him as the hero they need to save the US and this attack legitimised his victimising persona
“My doctor says you have the highest greatest LDL count of any president ever.” “Lipitor, sweet lipitor, isn’t it great folks, eat all the McDonald’s you could ever want, take one little pill and it all washes away, right into the toilet that won’t flush, 7-8 times you have to flush that thing.”
Not sure about “only” but they’re certainly few and far between. And unlike this idiot who’s , I guess , a front runn for his VP. This type of language is how we got here.
This tweet / statement popped up on the news thus morning while I was waiting to see the weather forecast.
Like that argument doesnt hold up because theres probably a lot of folks who have wanted Trump dead since at least the 80s. Him being an authoritarian shitheel is just another piece of wood on the fire.
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