Oddbean new post about login | logout I did not present a base case but I don’t believe the “official” narrative. You’re also assuming that these people (whoever they are), are not willing to sacrifice innocent lives to get what they want. Do you need a reminder of how many innocent lives died on 9/11? Were you that guy that told 9/11 conspiracy theorists that innocent lives died in those buildings? As if innocent lives dying somehow makes the story true.
Trump shooting/911 is like comparing apples and oranges. I think a closer comparison would be those who argued that a plane didn’t hit the Pentagon. Obviously incentives matter in both instances, but that is a longer deeper discussion. In either case my only point was not to not be so open minded your brain falls out. It is good to be skeptical. I’m glad it isn’t your base case, and I will continue to be open minded myself as facts come out. It is gonna be pretty hard to disprove that bullets didn’t graze his ear though when you have photos in real time taken at 60,000 FPS showing the bullet traveling past his ear.
I wasn’t comparing the trump shooting to 9/11. I was just giving an example of how innocent lives can be sacrificed. Is there a picture or video of the bullet actually hitting his ear?
Absolutely, look at any war we wage oversees https://www.cbsnews.com/news/photographer-doug-mills-capturing-bullet-trump-rally-assassination-attempt-trumps/
I don’t see any pictures of the bullet in this article
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I’ve seen this. But I asked for a picture of the bullet actually hitting his ear.
From the other side? I think we’ll have to wait on that. I haven’t seen one yet, but haven’t looked too hard
And of course he is going to exaggerate that his ear was “blown off.” It is Trump, and he only cares about the optics and his ego. Explains why he raised his fist too. He is a showman, and was not going to let that moment go to waste.
