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A quarter of Americans think that the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was staged
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Yeah that's not what I said or implied.
If you've been paying attention to the US for the past 18 months, and you still think that malice isn't involved, then I have a ballroom to sell you
You basically said Hanlon's razor is "complete bullshit" based on your own subjective view which is very much a denialist way of thinking. Not only that but I applied the principle to this most recent assassination attempt, not the current administration as a whole. It's not mutually exclusive with any malicious acts in the past year and a half. Real events aren't neat narratives, things that happen don't have to reflect any theses or character traits 100% of the time.