I’m seeing a bunch of posts insinuating that this most recent assassination attempt was fake. Why do people think this? I’m out of the loop.

  • trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf
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    4 days ago

    To play devils advocate: alphabet groups are notorious for setups, extortion, threats and more. There’s large collections of declassified documents from these organizations detailing such.

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      There are plenty of people calling for violence right now. Find a few disaffected male 20-somethings already leaning towards those ideas, groom them to see if any will go further, coordinate a plan with them, and you can have an “unscripted” but predictable attack. I don’t think that part is unbelievable, although I don’t personally have a strong feeling on if this particular attack was staged.

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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      I guess it is possible they just keep extorting and threatening people to assassinate public figures. Any actual examples of that from the past that we know off? Something that was declassified? (it’s not a counter argument. it’s possible they set up people to commit different crimes in the past and started with the assassinations only recently).