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FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 21:37:21 JST FeralRobots

This is how I learned someone had tried to shoot Trump.
Also this is a great example of why #Mastodon desperately needs the ability for us to turn off replies on posts: if I were someone with much of a following, it's the kind of post that would invite discussion of the wisdom of shooting a president (FTR, I think it's stupid), which is one of many free speech nullifiers under US law.
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  The Internet Archive's Wayback machine saved an early version of a Trump-shooting story in the Murdoch family's rancid New York Post, in which the garbage paper claimed the shooter was Chinese, citing unnamed "sources". HE WAS NOT CHINESE. https://web.archive.org/web/20240713234714/https://nypost.com/2024/07/13/us-news/gunman-behind-attempted-assassination-on-trump-shot-and-killed-by-secret-service-sources/ The story was fixed (no correction, much less apology). The Post would have to improve to have zero credibility. Remember: The Murdochs' "news" properties routinely inject poison into our civic bloodstream, for power and money. Evil.

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