Better to be Himmler than a political prisoner.

Because I provided a link backing up his claim that I was wrong?

Ok.

I just spent a while googling it, and nothing looks conclusive at all. But looks like Snopes has it as false as least.

But as far as the downvote, just saying “you’re wrong” is not helpful in the slightest. Maybe include a source, or even just an explanation that there was some early misinformation going around, and doesn’t look likely at moment.

Shot at the former president. He missed. The cut was from a shard of glass from a missed shot.

And also hilarious, since he was all too happy to fully enable Trump.

All that power that he cheated our democracy to put in Trumps hands, so that he could use him as a puppet to further his far right agenda, has turned on him. Even after kissing the ring after falling in line again after a very brief “perhaps we’ve gone too far” moment on Jan 6th.

Fuck you, Mitch. You destroyed our democracy. You did this. You raised an idiot to a dictatorship thinking you could control him. Great fucking job.

Whitmer, Shaprio, Walz, Buttigieg all don’t have the nationwide name recognition needed to hit the ground running with so little time before elections.

Newsom only has name recognition because the Right has been demonizing him for years because they recognized him as a threat. We’d just have a repeat of Hillary.

I’m not saying that these wouldn’t make decent candidates in a normal Primary time frame. But it would spell disaster to pivot to any of these candidates this late in the race.

Then name a name.

Who has that kind of charisma and name recognition, with no baggage, that they can storm in like the Koolaid man and take this election?

No? Yeah, I didn’t think so. You have been shitting on Biden every thread, even non-Biden related posts, for this entire election year and have never offered an alternative.

As a southern Californian, I measure inflation by the cost of tacos.

Inflation is out of control, despite whatever metrics the government uses. Tacos don’t lie.

Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. I thought that the current theory was that his ear was cut by a glass shard from a teleprompter.

Has that been disproven?

I don’t know if the algorithm has been tuned better, but I have totally missed big events until someone has directly mentioned it to me, because of mega threads. I suspect it may because the initial burst of community participation may happen in the first couple threads, and by the time a mod comes in and either uses an existing one as a mega thread, or starts a new thread, the participation has waned, so minor stories rise above.

I heard, by mouth, that Trump had been shot about an hour after it happened. It was no where on my front page, either “Active” or “Top Six Hours”. I had to go to the News community directly to find it.

I personally hate mega threads. It fucks with front page algorithms. Sometimes I’m not even aware of large events because I didn’t know there was a mega thread on a specific community that you might not see if you’re just looking at your front page, depending on how late the mega thread gets to the scene. Or newer articles with additional detail revitalizing the discussion under a new post.

I would rather comb through a couple threads, which tend to have some subtly different angles on the overall discussion.

But I think I’m in the minority.

I think most secret service are ex military, often special ops. Former SEALS, etc.

You tend to get a certain kind of personality with that kind of experience. So you have to accept a little bit of risk with after hour entertainment.

It’s going to mobilize his violent base anyway. We have some rough times ahead of us. I fully expect rampant domestic terrorism to increase as a result of this.

To be fair, I would label anyone trying to kill Hitler as an anti fascist. Unless it’s someone trying to take over in his place, at least.

I meant about dropping the presumptive nominee last minute when there wasn’t a real primary to have a 2nd place with momentum to fallback on

I think that’s a fair opinion that I just disagree with. Right now, we’re in a very awkward situation that doesn’t have much precedent to rely on, so no one really has much to rely on besides their instincts in public opinion, which is extremely unreliable.

I’ll say that I personally disregard polling out of hand because I personally find it extremely unreliable, even when the polls are conducted with the intent of impartiality. When I also don’t believe is commonly the case.

The problem is that many of us believe that Biden is our best hope even still.

If we had a strong candidate that we felt could rally the party this late in the game, that would be one thing. But IMO, we don’t. Every potential candidate has major hurdles that would take more than 4 months to smooth out.

Newsom is already the Right’s boogeyman. They targeted him years ago and made him the next Hillary Clinton because they saw him as a threat. I think he’s a generally strong Dem candidate for the future, but the Right has managed to brute force negativity to his name that it’s going to take some time to fight.

Harris just isn’t well liked. She’s a bit of a dead fish candidate. I have no idea what she has been up to, all interviews I’ve seen of her, she holds her cards very close to her chest, and because of it, comes off bland and uninteresting. I do not see her doing well against Trump at this point.

Whitmer just isn’t recognizable enough at large. She’d need more time to establish herself.

Honestly, despite the very legitimate concerns with Biden after the debate and following appearances, he’s still the strongest candidate IMO. There could have been stronger candidates had he stepped down from the beginning, but the time left is insufficient for the front runner candidates, even if we picked one today.

Man. You guys really can’t read the bold subtext or what?

This is literally the very next reply by the same user from the 2nd link:

Instead of voting for war criminals, how about not?

You don’t fill in a hole by taking a lesser amount of dirt out. Likewise you don’t fix the system by voting for the lesser evil.

They are not being subtle. They do this all the time here. They intentionally avoid specifically saying “don’t vote, both sides are bad”, but their intent is abundantly obvious.

I’m honestly amazed at how many people here are falling for this crap. They are all over lemmy making the same kind of tongue in cheek “both sides” layups. How the hell aren’t you catching on?

You can just keep it to yourself dude.

Oh the irony! From the both sides dude that gets downvoted into oblivion every thread.

It was a low effort reply to a low effort false claim.

But sure, keep whining about how I’m attacking you somehow, or whining about me playing victim or something.

Hope you find something to break you out of your funk so you can enjoy your weekend.