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🚨Confirmed Shooting At White House Correspondents Dinner

What a fool. History shows that assassinating a President only lends weight to their argument, and if the assassination is unsuccessful it just boosts their poll numbers. It's a lose-lose. It increases extremism from all sides in what is already a polarised situation.

Political violence is contemptible, not just for it's moral repugnance and anti-democratic nature, but for it's futility.
 
RiffRaff said:
Speaking strictly from a security analysis standpoint, the reaction time of protective agents nearest to Trump after the shots were fired was inexcusably slow.

Motive will be interesting to find out.
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Yea. Glad you said it. The guy slowly walked in front of Trump. 🤔 He should of ran the moment the first immediate sounds of 'commotion' were heard.

Also the others too...
 
NuclearID said:
Yea. Glad you said it. The guy slowly walked in front of Trump. 🤔 He should of ran the moment the first immediate sounds of 'commotion' were heard.

Also the others too...
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Also I find it interesting the media both on the left and right are portraying this as they did their job perfectly. While yes this situation ended better than it could have. There where some major notes I would not consider a smashing success. If your meter for smashing success is no one died sure then yes it was. But that's not what I am talking about.
 
RiffRaff said:
Not to derail the thread, but as an aside, I've always been fascinated with how the definition of "cruel and unusual" changes over time. If you look at the analysis of suicide methods, a shotgun blast through the roof of the mouth is considered to be the most instantaneous and painless method of killing ones self, because the brain is destroyed before it has a chance to send out pain signals. A lot of the official execution methods are not nearly as quick or efficient. Hanging sometimes does not break the neck and the person strangles to death. Electrocution doesn't always result in death after the first jolt. Lethal injections and firing squads can both be botched. Nitrogen asphyxiation is insanely slow and painful. The gas chamber is similarly slow and painful.

Partially a curiosity of how humans think and partially a judgement on the US justice system.

(Full transparency: I do support the death penalty as a concept, but not how it's currently used in the US.)
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NuclearID

Thread 'Capital Punishment Discussion'

NuclearID said:
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The Shas party said it voted in favor of the death penalty for terrorists law on the first reading, in accordance with the directive of the Council of Torah Sages, in light of the defense establishment's position after the Simchat Torah massacre. Ahead of the second and third readings, the Council instructed Shas representatives to make changes to the wording of the law in committee. After the changes were achieved and presented to the Council, the rabbis instructed Shas representatives to vote in favor of the law on the final reading.

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https://twitter.com/x/status/2038557963497922791
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I think we should have a discussion about this.
 
Friendly Engineer said:
NuclearID

Thread 'Capital Punishment Discussion'

NuclearID said:
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The Shas party said it voted in favor of the death penalty for terrorists law on the first reading, in accordance with the directive of the Council of Torah Sages, in light of the defense establishment's position after the Simchat Torah massacre. Ahead of the second and third readings, the Council instructed Shas representatives to make changes to the wording of the law in committee. After the changes were achieved and presented to the Council, the rabbis instructed Shas representatives to vote in favor of the law on the final reading.

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https://twitter.com/x/status/2038557963497922791
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I think we should have a discussion about this.
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Moved posts. 👍 hi-five team work! 😂
 
RiffRaff said:
Speaking strictly from a security analysis standpoint, the reaction time of protective agents nearest to Trump after the shots were fired was inexcusably slow.

Motive will be interesting to find out.
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The shooting happened on the level above the ballroom where the White House Correspondents Association dinner was. I don't think people hearing about this -- or even those of us in the room -- realized how far from the president, VP and other guests this incident was. It was on another floor, up some stairs and several sets of security away.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2048315378468557274
 
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