Which phrase best describes the events today?

[mix]

[name not needed]

1. Assassination attempt/act of terrorism

[William769]

2. Other.

Yet to be determined.

[upi402]

3. other - incited to violence by MSM n/t

[mix]

6. So he was merely a empty vessel without agency.

I find that hard to believe.

[upi402]

7. so media propaganda fails?

It doesn't move the country toward corporatism?
TV ads don't work?

Seems a big waste of $- if true. What a funny funny coincidence that the country has moved so far right since Reagan. How curious that there are so many rabid righties who constantly act against their own interests.

So very curious. Aren't you?

[mix]

8. Most are exposed to the propaganda and many chose to disregard it.

Making the choice to believe it is not a sign of mental illness. It's a sign of ignorance and error.

[upi402]

9. "ignorance and error" installed by the media

please pay attention

it's important to wake up now and pull our heads out of the sand

[mix]

10. If your view of propaganda were true, we would all be like him.

People have agency and choice, determined by the structures we live within, like the media.

Some engage in critical thinking to overcome the propaganda, others swallow it whole and choose to believe the lies.

Pull your head out.

[upi402]

13. pull MY head out?

You must be very young. Nobody is that naive these days who has seen things go down over time.

[mix]

16. There are two narratives here.

One, he's crazy and two, the rightwing media made him do it.

Both are perhaps true, but they also exonerate the shooter to some extent by denying that maybe he knew exactly what he was doing and by neglecting a third possibility: this was a political assassination carried out in cold rational blood.

I believe, and it's speculation at this point, that he was not a sponge of the right's violent rhetoric so much as a purveyor of it.

A rational agent of death.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. The act of a clearly mentally impaired person, which highlights the

horrific nature of today's politically motivated hate speech.

[AsahinaKimi]

5. i agree

eom.

[The Gunslinger]

11. other

"Just the beginning"

[Golden Raisin]

12. Another step towards

a Civil War in this country.

[TBF]

14. Attempt? They killed a federal judge. nt

[mix]

18. You are right.

It wasn't clear who was alive and dead when the OP was made.

I'm sure you understand.

[lpbk2713]

15. Inevitable

It was bound to happen and will happen again as long as the RW Media Hatemongers continue
to incite the weak minded Shittoheads with their constant flow of hate and divisiveness.

[Motown_Johnny]

17. why are the mentally ill and assassination choices separate?

It would seem that this is an assassination attempt by a mentally ill person.

[mix]

19. Assassination can't be a rational act?

What do we know about his mental state other than a hodge podge of internet ramblings and anecdotes?

Perhaps he was unstable, but I would like to hear a clinical diagnosis first.