Post #1794269

2026-04-27 13:36 UTC

I don't have an opinion either way about possible staged attempts, but if they were trying to make leftists look violent, why would they have used MAGA people for the first two attempts?

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@fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 2026-04-27 15:05

My suspicion is they just pick up data that a real person is considering an attempt, and then allow the least risky ones to get closest to success. Their base will cast whoever tries anything as a leftist regardless of the reality, or conveniently forget they're right-wing, but it's not really about making left-wing people look violent. It's about dominating the media airtime and controlling people's attention. It's the same tactic Trump successfully uses on social media or on TV - throw a bunch of shit out there and let the media pick at it while doing the actually heinous shit. There's just no other reason that it makes sense for this event to have no security, 2 months after someone with a shotgun and gas can went into mar-a-lago.

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