Gunman scorned Trump

That was the Times headline. Gee, I thought he was fond of trump.

Posted in: s/US-politics

🚀 stack [anarchist]

Apr 27 · 10 days ago

5 Comments ↓

👻 darkghost [Left leaning independent] · Apr 27 at 14:23:

I mean there are mentally ill people who try to curry favor with a third party celebrity by doing such acts. John Hinkley Jr. shot Reagan because he thought Jodie Foster would be impressed.

🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · Apr 27 at 19:11:

The nice thing about headlines is that, if you already know some basics about what happened, you can infer a lot about the bias/slant of the article/page/publisher from the framing in the headline.

👻 darkghost [Left leaning independent] · Apr 27 at 21:10:

Bias is transparent these days. Headlines containing words like "torches" "slams" "destroys" "blasts" etc and you know it's a biased piece. Might as well say "loud mouth opens mouth."

🚀 stack [OP, anarchist] · Apr 27 at 23:44:

I don't know why anyone wants to off Trump. Vance is scarier.

👻 darkghost [Left leaning independent] · Apr 28 at 12:10:

Not only is Vance scarier, if he comes to be president as a result of offing Trump, he's got the political capital to do whatever he wants since people will hold off on criticizing his actions in the wake of a national tragedy.