• thewebroach@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I kind of wonder if the shooting was planned when looking at the facts

    • shooter background was an Afghan CIA operative
    • shooter was vetted and given asylum by Trump administration in April 2025
    • months ago Trump deployed National Guard to DC without justification citing “crime”, despite crime rates dropping
    • a week ago, a judge ruled the National Guards deployment in DC was unlawful and he lacked authority or cause for it
    • two days ago, operative shoots 2 guardsmen not far from white house and immediately surrenders
    • Trump and Hegseth immediately respond saying not only are the national guards presence there legitimate and justified, but they are activating 500 more to head to DC

    Curious.

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    13 hours ago

    I am getting whiplash from how quickly this man contradicts his own statements

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    15 hours ago

    Should be noted that his justification is a lunatic the CIA hired and then brought back from Afghanistan.

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      Should be noted this is a lunatic brought back from Afghanistan, who Trump threatened to vet refugees from before the attack. If returned back to Afghanistan now would likely be put to death. That adds a lot of fear into these people. And life and death level of fear is dangerous.

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    20 hours ago

    But we are a third world country… Last month there were churches all over the world raising money to help feed American children while our government was shut down and couldn’t help cover subsidies for food.

    Make it make sense 🤡🌎

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      19 hours ago

      Third world means “brown people country” to him, that’s how it makes sense for them. Almost every question about why this administration does or says anything can be answered with “racism” or “pedofilia”.

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        “third world” is an outdated Cold War term that referred to countries that weren’t aligned with either the US or USSR.

        It’s loosely bandied about these days to indicate an undeveloped country. Out of the developed countries, the US cares the least about its citizens. But anyone who thinks it isn’t a developed country hasn’t been to undeveloped one.

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          “decimate” is an outdated term that means to destroy one tenth of something.

          Language changes over time. With the Cold War being over there was no longer a need for a term that referred to countries not involved in the Cold War, so the meaning changed to something useful

          But anyone who thinks it isn’t a developed country…

          And speaking of meaning, 3rd world does not mean underdeveloped. However, one of the criteria for a country to be considered “First World” is “having a stable democracy.” So whatever you want to classify the US as it sure as fuck isn’t a First World Country.

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            The US isn’t the best place to live but objective measurements of quality of life prove that it isn’t the worst. Saying it is is nothing more than childish hyperbole.

            3rd world does not mean underdeveloped.

            Yes, it does. You just said the term shifted to fit that new meaning. The US has a stable democracy, in case you haven’t noticed.

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              prove that it isn’t the worst. Saying it is is nothing more than childish hyperbole.

              Who said that? I didn’t so I don’t know what you’re on about here.

              Yes, it does.

              For someone who just insisted Third World means nothing outside of the Cold War you are very certain (again) that you are exactly right about its meaning.

              The US has a stable democracy

              How many of its citizens believe election fraud happened or was attempted in the 2020 election? The 2024 election? How many believe there won’t be any attempts at election fraud in 2028? Citizens that do not trust their democratic process is evidence of that democracy not being stable.

              How much has the current government ignored trade deals that they have signed? How much flip flopping has happened without warning in regards to tariffs? Have these changes happened through the proper channels from the appropriate branches of government?

              How many stories have their been in the past couple months of the government taking actions that its own courts call rule as illegal, and the government continues to do it anyway defying court orders?

              If you think all of this sounds “stable” maybe you shouldn’t be lecturing people on the definition of words.

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                Who said that? I didn’t so I don’t know what you’re on about here.

                What I’m on about is people thinking the US is an underdeveloped country. That it’s “third world”. Whether or not you think the country is immoral, the fact that it’s developed doesn’t change.

                For someone who just insisted Third World means nothing outside of the Cold War you are very certain (again) that you are exactly right about its meaning.

                I suggest you reread my original comment because I said NOTHING of sort. I said both what it meant then and what it means now. It’s very clear in my comment. I said the meaning changed.

                How many of its citizens believe election fraud happened or was attempted in the 2020 election? The 2024 election? How many believe there won’t be any attempts at election fraud in 2028? Citizens that do not trust their democratic process is evidence of that democracy not being stable.

                Yeah well 150 - 160 million of them vote every time and despite Trump’s nonsense, the electoral victors are taking office and those ones who lost have left office, including Trump in 2020. 202 was the first time anyone tried pulling the shit Trump pulled. In 2024, it’s a handful of idiots on the internet. We just had a series of elections Democrats won. Your argument that there is no democracy going on is an absolute farce.

                How much has the current government ignored trade deals that they have signed? How much flip flopping has happened without warning in regards to tariffs? Have these changes happened through the proper channels from the appropriate branches of government?

                Did you forget what your argument is or something? These are all separate issues that have nothing to do with the electoral process.

                How many stories have their been in the past couple months of the government taking actions that its own courts call rule as illegal, and the government continues to do it anyway defying court orders?

                I’ve seen one, recently. And haven’t looked at it too closely. Otherwise, they have followed court orders, including retuning Brega Garcia. Why don’t you answer one of your own questions for once and tell us about all the times the government has defied court orders?

                If you think all of this sounds “stable” maybe you shouldn’t be lecturing people on the definition of words.

                Barely any of your points even touch on democracy, which is people electing government representatives. Which has and continues to happen in the US. Elections are happening the results are being respected. That’s indisputable. No matter how much anti-American bigotry you maintain, that fact does not change.

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          14 hours ago

          As someone who was born and raised in an undeveloped country, and also has been to Europe, the US, Africa, Asia and all over Latin America. US ain’t all that.

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          Yup, glad someone else mentioned this. First world was allied with the USA. Second world was allied with the USSR. Third world wasn’t allied with either.

          The reason “third world” became synonymous with “undeveloped” is because of why countries tended to be third world. Countries were largely third world because they weren’t developed enough to be notable allies to the USA or USSR. They didn’t have enough development to be able to contribute things like military tech or manpower outside of their own borders, or corruption was so rampant that the first and second worlds didn’t feel like they would be reliable.

          As far as the USA and USSR were concerned, third world countries were only “useful” as land for staging proxy wars. But that meant “third world” quickly became associated with “undeveloped, corrupt, and war-torn.”

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    Does this whole scenario seem sus to anyone else? There was NOTHING about this on Wednesday and by the time I saw reporting on Thursday they’d already resolved thr situation, somehow captured the guy without killing him (he’s got the wrong skin colour to be captured alive), and spun the whole thing into their typical escalation of anti-immigrant rhetoric.

    Am I slow in hearing about this, or did they work with this formar governmental collaborator? Seems like a false flag?

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      14 hours ago

      Did you see the reports of his name being Google searched over 100 times in DC before the shooting?

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      Sadly everything that’s happening during this administration is highly questionable, even if it’s 100% legit it will always come with a shitload of questions.

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        It’s not “hard to believe” per se, it’s just uncharacteristic for how law enforcement in this country tends to work. There are a lot of shootings here for data points, so it’d be interesting to see alive arrest rates for active shooters across all metrics/demographics.

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          It’s not “hard to believe” per se,

          Then maybe we should hold of on pushing conspiracies as facts then.

          it’s just uncharacteristic for how law enforcement in this country tends to work.

          Not really. Several mass shooters have been taken alive, include the CO moviee theater psycho.

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            Who’s pushing facts? People are expressing doubt at the narrative pushed by an openly mendacious administration.

            And what’s the percentage of non-white shooters captured alive? US law enforcement doesn’t expend much effort in bringing non-white suspects in warm. In fact, they seem to prefer it cold.

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              Who’s pushing facts?

              Several people in this very thread.

              People are expressing doubt at the narrative pushed by an openly mendacious administration.

              People think that their rightful opposition to Trump makes it ok for them to lie. It’s unsubstantiated conspiracy and every bit as mendacious as the Trump administration.

              And what’s the percentage of non-white shooters captured alive?

              I don’t know, probably depends on the police force involved and conditions like whether or not the shooter was still holding the gun and such. This can’t possibly be basis to purport that this was some false flag. There’re just way too many other more reasonable possibilities. What purpose would that even serve?

              US law enforcement doesn’t expend much effort in bringing non-white suspects in warm. In fact, they seem to prefer it cold.

              I have plenty of criticisms of US police using excessive or unnecessary deadly force and I think there should be a much higher level of accountability. That said, the fact remains, most criminals are taken alive.

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          for the same reason the Jews had a hard time fleeing Germany.

          All that being said I’m very happy for you that you were able to get out. Good luck I’m hoping the best for you.

          • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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            They won’t renew passports with “incorrect” genders but also won’t process passports with a gender marker change, and are actively looking into revoking our passports. They already stopped recognizing passports with an X marker, for those who have them.

            They’ve been hitting lots of legal stumbling blocks but are persistent if nothing else

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      I live in a poor war-torn country. We don’t have many immigrants but those immigrants who still come to us (our education is miraculously still not destroyed by our esteemed masters) are behaving nice. The “secret” is obvious: let students, engineers, etc in and keep bandits out.

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        But they can’t add skin colour requirements, hence - no immigration for all.

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    Does he even have that power? I feel that’s a very important question that no one is asking.

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      Of course it was. Just like all previous attempts to get the American people angry enough to revolt. They’ll keep doing it until they have enough justification to issue complete nation wide martial law. The end goal here is to get the country to the point where the administration and republican party decides that holding elections are “unsafe” until “all this blows over” thus granting the cheeto a third term. It’s about solidify power for the next several decades.

      Someone read the Watchmen and took it as a playbook.

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        That would certainly explain why the administration leaned so heavily on Zelenskyy to allow for elections. It wasn’t (only?) because Putin told them to, but also because the obvious refusal would serve as later explanation for the potential indefinite delay in voting in America.