• Rojo27 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Cop looking at his criteria for shooting someone out of fear for his life:

    -Unarmed:❌

    -US foreign policy : White

    Ok, let me back up slowly. Wouldn’t want to get shot while on dutythumb-cop

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      cops fail to protect god emperor from assassin, who was a white boy registered republican

      I can already feel the wave of stroke-related deaths occurring right now

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      No kidding, I thought secret service guys were supposed to be hardcore or whatever. How the hell are they letting somebody point a gun at their charge from not even that far away? I’m not saying it’s necessarily what should have been done, but if you asked me what I thought would happen in this scenario I’d have said he would have been turned into swiss cheese from like 10 angles the moment he lifted the sight to his eye

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        Most of us thought similar things about the Capitol. Then January 6th happened. Now, not so much.

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          Fair point, but their reaction at the capitol was tactically logical. There’s nothing important just lying around there, nothing to lose really by letting the crowd in and watching them tire themselves out with all the energy of the dog that caught the car.

          I can’t think of a way letting this guy shoot at trump was tactically sound, except maybe in the sense that they’d have less explaining and/or paperwork to do than if they’d shot someone who technically hadn’t yet done anything objectively aside from have a gun.

          Honestly though it does kind of feel like I’m learning that the incompetence I see every day in every stage of American life is truly more complete than I thought. This evil machine used to be run by competent fascist soldiers, and they’ve all died or retired in luxury and now the whole thing is operated by goop-brained failsons who can barely outgun a teenager.

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        Most likely the further out areas were covered by local law enforcement and the core around the former president was directly covered by the Secret Service.

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      I don’t think we talked about it at the time, but he purchased The Onion a couple months ago. I know nothing about the deal, whether it’s good or bad for future left-leaning posts

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        I don’t know anything about Collins other than he had some kind of NBC News beat. I think he was a social media / tech guy. I assume he’s a lib but assumptions can lead you astray.